Tag Archives: web analytics

UK Google Market Share 2008

Posted on April 21, 2008 by admin

Following our post last year on Google UK’s market share in 2007, here are some figures providing an indication of Google’s Market share in the UK in 2008. Hitwise are providing the numbers again, and in a relatively short sampling period during March 2008, they found Google to be holding a market share 87.5%, 10 percentage points greater than the same figures for 2007. They found 73.7% to be using google.co.uk, and 13.8% google.com. Clearly Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask among others have therefore lost ground to their primary competitor.

10 statistics that demonstrate the value of SEO

Posted on May 17, 2007 by admin

These statistics source from a compilation of SERPS behaviour studies for which I’ve listed source information at the end of the article. If you disagree with a figure, or have additional figures or sources, please do post them to the discussion.

42% of search users click the top-ranking link. 8% click the second-ranking link, and the click-through rate (CTR) continues to drop thereof.
When these two top-ranking links are artificially switched, the click-through ratio of 42-8% drops to 34-12%, demonstrating the importance of engaging copy in addition to rank position.
62% of search users click a link on the first page of search results

UK Google Market Share – March 2007

Posted on April 12, 2007 by admin

The latest figures on Google’s market share compared to its primary search competitors Yahoo, MSN, and Ask (formerly Ask Jeeves) have been published by Hitwise. As always, the numbers are astounding, revealing that Google holds a 77% market share, meaning overthree quarters of UK internet searches are made through Google. Yahoo is now holding 8%, and while MSN and Ask are both at 5% and falling.

Comparing the UK to the US figures, for which Google has just broken 66.6% or two thirds market share, it’s clear that UK internet searchers even more than US searchers turn first to Google.

SEO: Evidence for the importance of Organic Search Engine Optimisation

Posted on March 14, 2007 by admin

This is a great image from an eye-tracking experiment that clearly demonstrates the importance of organic SEO. Check it out.

Website Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) – How Do You Measure Up?

Posted on March 9, 2007 by admin

If you are still using just hits and pageviews to measure your website’s performance, it’s time to ask yourself a few questions about how well you understand the performance of your website. How do these metrics contribute to understanding of how well you are acheiving your business objectives? eMarketing is just like offline marketing, in that requires measurement followed by optimisation. Only better, because we have more data.

Thus, central to every web project should be a Website Performance tracking sheet outlining targets and progress across a variety of measures that together communicate to your web management teams a picture of performance towards objectives. Use your imagination to find those indicators that provide into the performance of your website.

Webmaster Jam Sessions

Posted on February 22, 2007 by admin

From the same conference, Andy Budd summarises and presents links to several other presentations from industry spokespeople.

Web Design Experts

Posted on February 19, 2007 by admin

A critical part of being a web design expert and consultant in Glasgow is actively participating in communities of other web design experts. To get an idea of the expertise we are drawing on and contributing to, the following is a list of those sites we consider key to our success – the best of the best, you might say.

Search Engine Optimisation

Design and Development

"Personable, Good Value, High Integrity."

Marie-Noelle Douaiher
APC

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