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Welcome to the ineedhits Search Engine Marketing blog, where we share the latest search engine and online marketing news, releases, industry trends and great DIY tips and advice.
Google’s dominance in the US search market is continuing to grow according to data released by Hitwise today.
Google’s search market share grew by 8% year-over-year while Yahoo! And MSN dropped a staggering 19% and 17% respectively.
Hitwise also reported that search terms longer than 3 keyword phrases all saw a year-over-year percentage increase meaning users are…
There are thousands of different home based business products available on the web today and many have become very popular amongst affiliate advertisers. Over the years I have come across a wide variety of home based affiliate websites; some of which are very clear and a few that have simply confused me.
Recently, in a move to weed out some…
So you operate a local business; but are you doing all you can to reach your local customers or is Mr. Smith down the street taking all of them? Unfortunately in every business there is competition and in order to get in front of your competitors one important factor is to get noticed!
Below are some of the steps I…
Local search engines such as Google Local and Yahoo! Local rely on many sources of to gather information on a business and enhance their local search Listing. One of the main sources used for enhancing business listings are review sites – where users post appraisals and evaluations of businesses and products they’ve used.
More than just enhancing the information in…
Google released Google Universal Search in mid May 2007 which saw the integration of all its various search verticals including Google Maps, Google Images and Google Video into the main web results.
Although Google Universal Search has only been around for under a month, early results from a recent study by Hitwise show the biggest winners…
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The other day I was chatting to a friend of mine from West Seneca, New York and he shared with me his experience using Google Local to find a pest control business in his area. It really highlights the growing importance of Local Search and the real value of an enhanced listing for local businesses.
He said he…
Google has made some changes to their ‘Onebox’ display when a user searchers for local results on Google.com. Earlier this year local search results started appearing at the top of organic results which was great news for local businesses – especially if they appeared in the top 3 positions for that search.
The screenshot below (taken from Small Business SEM)…
Images and graphics can be great additions to your web pages, and especially useful if they provide a basis for informing or directing visitors within your site. The challenge when using images is to make them as search engine friendly as possible. One of their uses that can cause issues within search engines is image mapping. An Image Map exists…
Have you ever come across a website and noticed when you place your mouse over an image some text appears? This text is called an alt tag (alternate text tag) and is meant to be used when the image is not visible on the page (if the user has turned images off in their browser) and to assist vision impaired…
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