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Top U.S. Online Search Providers
NielsenWire reports the top U.S. search providers by number of searches for the month of November 2009. The key thing to notice is the since it’s launch in the spring, Microsoft’s Bing is taking market share from Google.
Top 10 Search Providers for November 2009, Ranked by Searches (U.S.)
RANK
Provider
Searches (000)
Share of Searches
Total
10,002,458
100.0%
1
Google Search
6,546,172
65.4%
2
Yahoo! Search
1,525,964
15.3%
3
MSN/Windows Live/Bing Search
1,073,416
10.7%
4
AOL [...]
Real Time Social Media Searches
Google Caffeine Google’s new search algorithm, will be introducing ‘Real Time’ searches for the various social media networks. Similar to the Google News feature, only it’s like watching an online RSS media feed for Social Media sites like Twitter.
We’re already experimenting with this new feature and studying how you could use it to produce more [...]
Local Marketing Works – 3 Million Page Views!!
“Local marketing for local businesses really works,” says Lynne LaMaster, Publisher at Prescott eNews. “On Christmas Day, we passed 3,000,000 page views for the year!”
PrescottENews.com is an online newspaper that covers the activities, business, government, sports, education and upcoming events for the Prescott, AZ, area. Lynne started her online business just two years ago, and [...]
We’re a Favorite Place on Google
I just received a letter (a real letter — on paper!) from the Google Local Business Team, telling me that Sigma Web Technologies’ business listing as accessed 240 times in the past quarter, and driving directions were accessed 38 times.
The letter goes on to say “Because you’re so popular, we’re enclosing a window decal that [...]
Sigma Web Technologies Joins RatePoint’s Business Partner Program
Leveraging Customer Feedback Tools to Proactively Connect with Customers and Grow Business
Sigma Web Technologies today announced it has joined RatePoint’s Business Partner Program. Sigma Web Technologies (www.SigmaWebTechnologies.com) is now able to provide its clients with easy to use email marketing and customer feedback tools to help small-business clients improve customer satisfaction, build credibility and increase [...]
Pardon our Dust While We Redesign our Website!
It’s not just a paint job — we’re doing a whole website remodel! And like most do-it-yourself projects, it gets done in pieces, as time allows. Our work remains the same, with a strong focus on help you use the internet effectively to market locally. There are many, many tools available to help to you do this for free, and we’ll be highlighting some of them here.
