Optimise Your Website Within Search Engines To Maximum Effect!
Most Popular Search Engines in 2009
| 2009 | Yahoo! | Bing | Ask | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 08 | 70.24% | 16.96% | 9.44% | 2.37% |
| 2009 07 | 72.07% | 17.00% | 7.31% | 2.58% |
| 2009 06 | 74.04% | 16.19% | 4.99% | 3.15% |
| 2009 05 | 73.66% | 15.55% | 5.64% | 3.81% |
| 2009 04 | 72.68% | 16.29% | 5.67% | 3.96% |
| 2009 03 | 72.13% | 16.56% | 5.50% | 4.02% |
| 2009 02 | 72.11% | 17.52% | 5.55% | 3.47% |
A Search Engine is an online tool, within a website which is designed to search for information within the World Wide Web. The search results are usually presented in a list, with the most pertinent or relevent page or site at the top. The results are commonly called hits.
The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also crawl for data available in databases, PDF files, spreadsheets or open directories. Unlike Web directories, which are maintained by human editors, search engines operate algorithmically or are a mixture of algorithmic and human input.
There are so many different websites now that becoming the most visible site carrying your kind of message can be a struggle. However, ProAction Networks can help, having successfully promoted a range of websites to the top of a variety of popular Search Engines.
Organic and Paid Search Engine Success
Top Search Engines During 2008
| 2008 | Yahoo! | MSN/Live | Ask | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 12 | 72.07% | 17.79% | 4.10% | 3.15% |
| 2008 11 | 71.97% | 17.70% | 4.10% | 3.35% |
| 2008 10 | 71.86% | 17.74% | 4.16% | 3.53% |
| 2008 09 | 71.16% | 18.06% | 4.22% | 3.63% |
| 2008 08 | 71.01% | 18.26% | 5.32% | 3.45% |
| 2008 07 | 70.07% | 18.65% | 5.36% | 3.53% |
| 2008 06 | 69.17% | 19.62% | 5.46% | 4.17% |
| 2008 05 | 68.29% | 19.95% | 5.89% | 4.23% |
| 2008 04 | 67.90% | 20.28% | 6.26% | 4.17% |
| 2008 03 | 67.25% | 20.29% | 6.65% | 4.09% |
| 2008 02 | 66.44% | 20.59% | 6.95% | 4.16% |
| 2008 01 | 65.98% | 20.94% | 6.90% | 4.21% |
Having the highest organic page rank within a search engine can mean more business, more visitors, more trust – because a highly ranked site is most visible to the most amount of people, as well as considered the most ‘trusted’ source of the information which the visitor is looking for. An organic ranked page is a page which is not paid for or ‘forced’ in any way upon the visitor – Google, Bing, Yahoo et al simply have looked at your site and decided it should be shown to the person who is searching.
Different search engines rank pages in different ways – many of them secret, but will almost always include their scrutiny of your site’s balance of text material, paying attention to the search words or phrase (including order of words) the user searched for. In addition to the mere visible text within your site, there is also a large number of other factors, taking into account certain code, the age of the site, how many other websites link to this one, how often it’s been updated, pictures, accessibility, where the site is hosted, what is the domain name and still many many other factors.
The key to success is a little like baking a good cake – too much or too little of your vital ingredients will spell disaster. And your cake might not be to everyone’s taste!
ProAction Networks, based in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire can help you become more powerful and visible within the key search engines. We can help you appear in more searches and make your website more likely to appear to your target audience. In addition to pure site optimisation, hosting your website on our UK datacentre servers will help tell search engines where your business or organisation originates, and with careful help from us in deciding on a domain name, this will also pay dividends.
In addition to organic search engine ranking, most web search engines are commercial ventures supported by advertising revenue and, as a result, some employ the practice of allowing advertisers to pay money to have their listings ranked higher in search results.
Most search engines which do not accept money for their search engine results but instead make money by running search related ads alongside the regular search engine results. The search engines make their money every time someone clicks on one of these ads (paid for by the Advertisor).
Top Search Engines for 2007
| 2007 | Yahoo! | MSN/Live | Ask | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 12 | 65.98% | 20.88% | 7.04% | 4.14% |
| 2007 11 | 65.10% | 21.21% | 7.09% | 4.63% |
| 2007 10 | 64.49% | 21.65% | 7.42% | 4.76% |
| 2007 09 | 63.55% | 22.55% | 7.83% | 4.32% |
Top Search Engines for 2006
| 2006 | Yahoo! | MSN/Live | Ask | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 10 | 60.94% | 22.34% | 10.72% | 4.34% |
