Since the boom of ecommerce in the early noughties, online shopping has become the norm for many, with £250 billion being spent over cyberspace between 2000 and 2010.  Going back in time to 2001, only six million people in the UK were purchasing from the internet, spending around £1.8 billion.  However, 9 years later, this [...]

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Hitwise have released the latest search engine market share statistics with the details shown in the graph below. Predicatably, Google continues to lead the way by leaps and bounds with a majoirty share of 91.59%.  Although Google.com searches are down 0.2% (month on month), Google.co.uk has seen an increase of 0.32% (month on [...]

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What is bounce rate? A bounce rate is the number of visitors that source a website through a search engine (paid and non paid) but leave without navigating to any other webpage and “bounce” back to the search engine to find another resource.  These statistics can be used to quantify the quality of the specific landing [...]

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Hitwise have released the latest search engine market share statistics with the details shown in the graph below. Google has mainted its domination with an overall market share of 91.70%, although the local .co.uk has increased its share by 0.07% with the same figure coming away from the .com equivalent.  Similarly, Bing.com has lost 0.05% [...]

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Following our previous post regarding 15 on site factors that influence your search engine positions, here is our list of some of the off site factors that search engines take into account when ranking your website.

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There are many, many factors that will influence your search engine position, some even suggest that Google has 200 “signals” that it uses to rank a website by.  Unfortunately very few people are privy to this information, and in this post we will explore some of the on site factors that have an influence on [...]

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There is no doubt that the internet is growing in terms of users and what it can achieve.  This information has been quantified and documented by OFCOM in their bi-annual UK Adult’s Media Literacy Report that was released earlier this week.  The report is based upon a quantitative survey involving over 1800 people aged 16 [...]

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Hitwise have released the latest search engine market share statistics with the details shown in the graph below. Google’s dominantion continues with an overall market share of 91.70% (up from 90.58% last month) whilst the Yahoo (UK) and the other smaller search engines are the ones that have lost out.

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In the industry that we are in, we see hundreds of websites each week.  After looking at websites in relation to how they have (or haven’t) been optimised you begin to recognise the common mistakes that are made.  This can be because website owners are attempting to do the work themselves or even sometimes because [...]

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The latest statistics from Hitwise have been released and Google continues to dominate the search engine market by breaking the 90% barrier for its .co.uk and .com versions. As you can see from the graphic below, Bing, Yahoo and the other smaller search engines have a tiny portion of the market share,  which collectively totals just [...]

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