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What Killed Michael Porter's Monitor Group? The One Force That Really Matters. 11 Google Analytics Tricks to Use for Your Website. Social Foraging. Powered by Infusionsoft. Convert numbers into words (from 0 to 999,999,999,999,999) Dollars and Cents, integers or decimal fractions. Introduction to SEO. How People Use Search Engines - The Beginners Guide to SEO.

One of the most important elements to building an online marketing strategy around SEO is empathy for your audience.

How People Use Search Engines - The Beginners Guide to SEO

Once you grasp what the average searcher, and more specifically, your target market, is looking for, you can more effectively reach and keep those users. We like to say "Build for users, not search engines. " When users have a bad experience at your site, when they can't accomplish a task or find what they were looking for, this often correlates with poor search engine performance. On the other hand, when users are happy with your website, a positive experience is created, both with the search engine and the site providing the information or result. What are users looking for? "Do" Transactional Queries - Action queries such as buy a plane ticket or listen to a song. When visitors type a query into a search box and land on your site, will they be satisfied with what they find? It all starts with the words typed into a small box. Why invest time, effort and resources on SEO?

Www.jeffbullas.com/2011/05/16/50-amazing-facts-and-figures-about-google/ Google has become an integral part of our lives and the word has even become a verb as we are often heard to say let’s “Google” that.

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I have even heard the web giant referred to in hushed tones during heated discussions and when a controversial fact or figure is being debated across a dinner table or at the local bar as to whether it is true or false and a person will pull out their iPhone and say “let’s check Lord Google”. Google was founded in 1997 by two Stanford University PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin whose initial company mission statement was “To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” Which they seem to have made a good dent in achieving since they started the company. Technology is enhancing us as human beings and the integrating of artificial intelligence is slowly being weaved and embedded into our activities and habits almost without us noticing. More reading Sources. Google Annual Search Statistics. Read search engine statistics and coverage, including Google search statistics.

Knowing which search engines are getting the largest percentage of search traffic plays a big role in deciding the focus of optimization efforts.

Read search engine statistics and coverage, including Google search statistics.

Google search statistics, for example, show us that Google is still the king of search traffic, accounting for a whopping 72.62% of all search traffic in February 2014. Bing and Yahoo! Follow further behind with 9.06% and 7.57% respectively, while Ask is at 2.78% and AOL Search is at 1.18%. Source These search engine statistics and coverage show that you should be focusing your optimization efforts on Google first and foremost. It is worth noting, however, that Bing traffic has grown 43.2 percent, from 60.7 million users in June 2009 to 86.9 million users in December 2010, according to comScore.

Worldwide Internet Population In December 2008, the worldwide Internet audience of people ages 15 and older surpassed one billion visitors for the first time1. How is your site going to stand out against all this growing competition? Global trends4. Www.meclabs.com/training/misc/EXCERPT-PLAIN-BMR-2012-Search-Marketing-SEO-Edition.pdf.