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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Latest search engine popularity figures

1st Google = 48.5%
2nd Yahoo = 22.5%
3rd MSN = 10.7%
4th AOL = 6.6%
5th ASK = 2.7%

Source: Nielsen//Netratings

What does this mean to you?
If you own a website and use search engines to promote it, you need to be targeting at least the top 3 search engines with your search engine optimisation [Define], as this is how 81.7% of people find what they are looking for on the web. If you are only targeting googol, then you are missing a large chunk of potential visitors.

If you aren't promoting your site in search engines you should be. Its a free way to promote it and get people there who are interested in your site. This article Getting to the top of Google explains how.

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