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Techcrunch Reports on Search Growth in the United States
April 9, 2010 By Frank.Torres
Eric Schonfeld at Techcrunch published a great article this morning on the decline in growth of search in the United States. While it’s challenging to say the search industry’s best days are behind it, it does make sense to say that the search industry has increasingly become more efficient in delivering results. As a result of the push to improve traffic quality over the past few years, we’re seeing less and less low quality search results. What does this mean? It means you no longer land on parked pages overstocked with a list of ads when you perform a search. The same can be said about low quality vertical pages that don’t produce relevant and unique content. The algorithms have become more intelligent in how they rank websites and their content, not to mention the introduction of in search results intelligence. Just search for a stock ticker in Google and you’ll see the most recent stock price.
Here’s some of the growth numbers outlined from Techcrunch post:
March, 2009: 33.1%
June, 2009: 21.8%
September, 2009: 17.3%
December, 2009: 16.5%
January, 2010: 12.4%
February, 2010: 10.4%
March, 2010: 7.6%
(Source: Techcrunch, 4/9/2010)
Some of the commenters made good points about the introduction of informational sites such as Wikipedia and how they’ve played a role in decline by providing high ranking information in a place people tend to trust (even if it is user generated). Another interesting fact mentioned in the article is that Bing still continues to chip away at Google’s share.
One thing’s for certain, your position/rank in the search engines results are becoming more and more important once again as the competition to be the best becomes more fierce.
Welcome to the New MarketPosition.com!
April 2, 2010 By Webposition SEO Team
Those of you who visit regularly know that the site is not actually ‘new’, but we’ve given it a fresh, clean look designed to make it easier for you, our guest, to find the SEO information and news that you want. New look, new links, new content and still an extensive archive of your favorite articles.
We’ve even added a new SEO 101 tutorial for individuals who are new to SEO and looking to get started. Divided up into nine easy-to-follow sections, SEO 101 makes it easy for beginners to learn what SEO is all about, how it works and how they can put it to work for their site.
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