Well earlier this week (13th July 2010) ComScore released it’s June 2010 search engine statistics. ComScore release these figures once a month, they use an ever changing formula to create more and more accurate results. The statistics are in essence related to the number of searches conducted by each search engine. So what did the results say?
Well as expected, Google top the chart – with 62.6% of the current market share, a loss of 1.1% from May 2010. Google was then followed by Yahoo! (18.9% up 0.6% from May). In third place was Bing (formerly MSN) with a growth of 0.6% taking Bing to an ever growing market share of 12.7%. In fourth remains ASK search network, at 3.6% and with no change from the previous month. Finally, in fifth is AOL who suffered a loss of 0.1% taking them to just 2.2% of the search market.
So what does this all mean?
Well clearly it means that the search market is changing, no longer is MSN (now bing) the stick in the mud that wouldn’t change. But the important thing of note here is that Bing continues to grow, and with Bing taking over the search functionality of Yahoo! later this year, Bing (using todays figures) would have a market share of 31.6% – a truly staggering thought and something that I believe means now is the time to take note of Bing (and not to wait several months) for SEO’s. So with this in mind, it is now time to Love the Bing.
But it isn’t just SEO’s that need to take note it is other search engines, and this is something Google are already doing (almost in fear it feels). With lasts months role out of background images, Google made a move to be “more like” Bing – but after much uproar in the first few seconds of being live, Google decided unlike Bing having a default image wasn’t a good idea and it is now optional.
The one thing the results do not show is that the world is showing an exponential growth of mobile search. With the advent and influence of the iPhone, Blackberry and Android’s of the world this isn’t going to slow down any time soon and is a huge target market. However, without specific results we can only presume that search is in the same proportions – though I know at least in the UK blackberry (and anyone on the Three mobile network) searches are defaulted to Yahoo!, android in 90% of cases I believe are pointed at Google (the creators) … as for apple I also see these guys using Google … So sorry bing but you need to get up and make some deals – message here is if your mobile focused target Google mobile and Yahoo mobile.
Our hosting partners UKHOST4U have today announced a huge summer sale.
UKHost4u.com is offering a 25% discount on all web hosting products including Shared Hosting, VPS Server and Dedicated Servers. You can also use the 25% additional discount to the already discounted products including products with Free Domain names or 3 Years for the Price of 2.
Paul Hughes Managing Director – “With this new 25% discount code you can now have a Budget Hosting account with a domain for as little as £14.99 per year!”
To take advantage of this offer simply enter the code ‘SUM25‘ at checkout.
Now there are so so many resources out there, but I want to share my top 5 online resources for web designers, developers and website owners.
Articles & Blog Resources
1 – Smashing Magazine
These guys are simply superb, renowned for the “top ten” lists they role out on a regular basis and of course the experts whom right for the blog, Smashing Mag is always worth a read. Add to this recently they added the Smashing Network of blogs, so now it’s not just Smashing Mag updates you get but also those from other related blogs in the network (only the best blogs). – @smashingmag
2 – Boagworld
Although based around a world famous podcast, the Boagworld website also offers some amazing articles from designers, developer and marketers (including myself) – On top of that you get to see paul boag (the father of web design) rant a little about what is often a nothing subject, but it brings a new non-techie angle which is good. Also the site offers a fairly active forum where all sorts of discussion go on from design discussion to how something works in php. Boagworld is for website owners & recently Paul released “the website owners manual” – a superb reference guide if you have anything to do with a website. – @boagworld
3 – Think Vitamin
From the guys and gals at Carsonified, Think Vitamin is a superb resource for all kinds of things. With topics including business, marketing, design, development, mobile and web apps there is something for everyone here. Also with Think Vitamin radio you can consume materials on the go. The guys at Carsonified also arrange a number of great conferences each year including various future of events. – @carsonified
4 – 37signals
This is a resource I’ve only just began reading on a regular basis, but it’s well worth spending a few minutes taking a look here each week to see if there is anything of relevance to you. 37signals are all about productivity and making things work properly, they are the makers of the now infamous BaseCamp software and amazing web designers working with clients like threadless. – @37signals
5 – A List Apart
This is primarily a designer and developer blog, it isn’t in any way formed for a website owner (it’s far too techie). However, if you are a website designer or developer I seriously advise you subscribe to the RSS and twitter feed, some big names post here and it’s superb. – @alistapart
Top Web Related Tweeters
Here are all the webby type people i suggest you follow if you have anything to do with the internet. Not all will be relevant to everyone but they all have something great to offer!
This list has been formed and outed for you, because I was asked by a fellow designer for my list (and here it is), but now I want to go a step further and want your ideas! so tweet me @andykinsey the resource you favour using, from blogs to css galleries to books, let me know. – Or leave a comment.
Over the past few weeks you will have read a lot about branding, and over the next few weeks this will continue. But this week I want to introduce some new services that we can offer at exclusive rates through our mother company, Andy Kinsey Designs.
Our Marketing Packages start from an amazing £350 – thats around £50 extra on top of a fairly simple site for a lot more!
Our packages can be customised to meet you needs more closely, but we think we’ve got most companies covered, if not buy an add-on, if you still can’t find what you want then make an enquiry and leave the extra bit as a message/comment for us – we’re always looking to expand and something you want may also be something someone else wants!
And here’s the exciting bit!
We know that we can fill your need, but we also know we can fill that of many other businesses.
It is through this belief we are today opening our referral scheme.
Our scheme is so easy, there is no sign-up required just ask those you refer to enter your email as how they found our services! – thats it, we will then contact you about your payment. – Also we have no minimum payment requirements, aka we won’t hold your money hostage like some referral companies.
What Will We Pay? Here’s the great news!
For spending between £0 & £250 – We pay 10%
For spending between £251 & 500 – We pay 7.5%
For spending between £501 & £1999 – We pay 5%
Over £2000 – We pay 2.5%
Over the past few years I’ve read well over 50 SEO books (including these top seo books), some contained good advice, others were not so forthcoming. But all suffered from the same issues, they were aimed at designers and developers – they had jargon to the brim and explained various factors in such a complex manner that even I at times struggled to grasp what they were saying about something I already knew.
So last year I discussed with a few people an opportunity I have given my knowledge of the subject and my apparent way with words to cut out the jargon (the later has been commented on numerous times over the past year by readers of these articles). The opportunity was (as it is now) to write a unique book about SEO, a book where SEO advice and detail meets the real world of website owners, developers and designers together.
You see in my opinion and the opinions of those I’ve spoken to the world is not made up of these people working independently, indeed quite the opposite, in some cases they are all the same person. So why would you want to write a book aimed at a single type of person involved and not explain to others why something is being done a certain way? I wouldn’t.
Furthermore if you aim your book at the “skilled end” of designers and developers you leave your self alienated from those people whom are a small business or single person bidding for the attention of potential clients and readers whom want to get their hands dirty and do some simple coding or site updates to really help their site. So, I won’t be doing that either.
Instead I am about to begin putting pen to paper in writing an all encompassing SEO book, aimed at the real world – so it won’t contain jargon, it won’t be full of complex explanations and the examples won’t be so far fetched you have no idea where to start. The book will be a practical SEO guide written for the whole world, with the aim that even the newest of website owners with zero experience can really understand how to improve the website they own and make it stand out from the rest in terms of SEO.
So why am I telling you this before I’ve even begun writing? well…
I Need Your Help !!!
I have a list of topics I want to cover in the book, ranging from “what a spider is” and “what a SERP is” to Meta Tags to coding structure to content writing and beyond.
But to make this book a success I need to know what you want to see in the book, now I know I have covered a lot of stuff on this site and most of it will be in the book, but is there anything I have missed? Something you want to know more about? or any kind of myth or story you have heard that you want to know the truth about?
Whatever it is you want to know about SEO or see in an SEO book I need your help.
To get your ideas to me simply leave a comment below, tweet me, or e-mail me.
Over the past year and a bit i’ve had the same question again and again – can I download and keep your content.
The answer has always been “no” up until now!
Today we SEOAndy introduce the E-book PDF system. Each of our posts will be available to download, as many times as you want, just click the link at the bottom of the relevant post to view the PDF (or right click and save target as).
We will also soon be offering all of our SEO Posts in a single SEO Book – which will also include much more detail about all things SEO than we can offer in a simple SEO Post.
If you want to see a particular feature on this site let us know – leave a comment below or contact us
Are you the owner or person responsible for a website? Is the website being beaten to the top of Google or Bing by your competitors? Does the search market look scary? or maybe you’ve been trying for months but just can’t seem to get ranked by the search engines?
If you’ve answered “yes” to any of the above then here’s some good news for you!
SEOAndy today are introducing a new service, THE SEO CLINIC
We are excited to announce the launch of StayStAndrews a website for the visitors to St Andrews whom are looking for local accommodation within walking distance of the famous old golf course (which is located just 3 minutes walk from this stunning town house).
This single page website is built using scripting languages such as PHP and MooTools*, it also utilises the MultiMap API**. The site comprises of several sections including; a description of the spacious town house including its many features, an image gallery, contact form and interactive map. The site has a single page layout with no refreshes and a quick load time it is a seamless experience from the moment you start your visit.
So if your interested in hotels or bed and breakfast accommodation in St Andrews (Fife) then why not consider taking a look at this luxury town house at the heart of the town. Whether you want to rent one room for one night or four rooms for 6 months then why not enquire today about this spacious property.
Today has seen the launch of what is one of the more simple websites I have seen.
The site has been redesigned from being a busy rubbish ridden “thing” to being a simple website with a clear call to action without clutter. Now I’m not saying this site is perfect and I’m not saying that the redesign they have launched will work, but I like it and whats more its been launched by a friend who has been in the web design game as long as me (since 2005) whom is going to partner with me on several upcoming projects as he is a media mogul with his fingers in way too many digital pies.
So check out the site and give him a shout if you have an upcoming project you need media coverage for.
Well this is it my last post. No more will I be writing to unveil the secrets of the SEO world, no longer will I be giving free advice and tips, and no longer will I offer any SEO services … at least in 2009.
Had you going there, you should have seen you face… sorry but sometimes I need to grab your attention for all its worth and if I may can I keep it for a few more moments.
This post has no real content or relevance to anything else on this site, this post is simply me needing to say a few things.
Thank you to everyone who has helped make the last 7 months (and the start of my new life) possible. You are all amazing and without you I’d still be stuck in my little hole of a life not being the very happy person I am today.
The last 7 months have been amazing and I owe a lot of it to Crystals Limited – they’ve grown me beyond even their own expectations and I think that we all deserve a congratulatory pint
A special Thanks to all my clients old and new – who’ve pushed and pulled until we’ve both been happy with the end result. See some Design work.
A huge huge huge thanks to you ( my readers ) and commentators over the past year, without you this site wouldn’t be what it is.
So with that all tied up, I wish you farewell for 2009 and I hope to see you back for 2010.
Well earlier this week (13th July 2010) ComScore released it’s June 2010 search engine statistics. ComScore release these figures once a month, they use an ever changing formula to create more and more accurate results. The statistics are in essence related to the number of searches conducted by each search engine. So what did the results say?
Well as expected, Google top the chart – with 62.6% of the current market share, a loss of 1.1% from May 2010. Google was then followed by Yahoo! (18.9% up 0.6% from May). In third place was Bing (formerly MSN) with a growth of 0.6% taking Bing to an ever growing market share of 12.7%. In fourth remains ASK search network, at 3.6% and with no change from the previous month. Finally, in fifth is AOL who suffered a loss of 0.1% taking them to just 2.2% of the search market.
So what does this all mean?
Well clearly it means that the search market is changing, no longer is MSN (now bing) the stick in the mud that wouldn’t change. But the important thing of note here is that Bing continues to grow, and with Bing taking over the search functionality of Yahoo! later this year, Bing (using todays figures) would have a market share of 31.6% – a truly staggering thought and something that I believe means now is the time to take note of Bing (and not to wait several months) for SEO’s. So with this in mind, it is now time to Love the Bing.
But it isn’t just SEO’s that need to take note it is other search engines, and this is something Google are already doing (almost in fear it feels). With lasts months role out of background images, Google made a move to be “more like” Bing – but after much uproar in the first few seconds of being live, Google decided unlike Bing having a default image wasn’t a good idea and it is now optional.
The one thing the results do not show is that the world is showing an exponential growth of mobile search. With the advent and influence of the iPhone, Blackberry and Android’s of the world this isn’t going to slow down any time soon and is a huge target market. However, without specific results we can only presume that search is in the same proportions – though I know at least in the UK blackberry (and anyone on the Three mobile network) searches are defaulted to Yahoo!, android in 90% of cases I believe are pointed at Google (the creators) … as for apple I also see these guys using Google … So sorry bing but you need to get up and make some deals – message here is if your mobile focused target Google mobile and Yahoo mobile.
Our hosting partners UKHOST4U have today announced a huge summer sale.
UKHost4u.com is offering a 25% discount on all web hosting products including Shared Hosting, VPS Server and Dedicated Servers. You can also use the 25% additional discount to the already discounted products including products with Free Domain names or 3 Years for the Price of 2.
Paul Hughes Managing Director – “With this new 25% discount code you can now have a Budget Hosting account with a domain for as little as £14.99 per year!”
To take advantage of this offer simply enter the code ‘SUM25‘ at checkout.
Now there are so so many resources out there, but I want to share my top 5 online resources for web designers, developers and website owners.
Articles & Blog Resources
1 – Smashing Magazine
These guys are simply superb, renowned for the “top ten” lists they role out on a regular basis and of course the experts whom right for the blog, Smashing Mag is always worth a read. Add to this recently they added the Smashing Network of blogs, so now it’s not just Smashing Mag updates you get but also those from other related blogs in the network (only the best blogs). – @smashingmag
2 – Boagworld
Although based around a world famous podcast, the Boagworld website also offers some amazing articles from designers, developer and marketers (including myself) – On top of that you get to see paul boag (the father of web design) rant a little about what is often a nothing subject, but it brings a new non-techie angle which is good. Also the site offers a fairly active forum where all sorts of discussion go on from design discussion to how something works in php. Boagworld is for website owners & recently Paul released “the website owners manual” – a superb reference guide if you have anything to do with a website. – @boagworld
3 – Think Vitamin
From the guys and gals at Carsonified, Think Vitamin is a superb resource for all kinds of things. With topics including business, marketing, design, development, mobile and web apps there is something for everyone here. Also with Think Vitamin radio you can consume materials on the go. The guys at Carsonified also arrange a number of great conferences each year including various future of events. – @carsonified
4 – 37signals
This is a resource I’ve only just began reading on a regular basis, but it’s well worth spending a few minutes taking a look here each week to see if there is anything of relevance to you. 37signals are all about productivity and making things work properly, they are the makers of the now infamous BaseCamp software and amazing web designers working with clients like threadless. – @37signals
5 – A List Apart
This is primarily a designer and developer blog, it isn’t in any way formed for a website owner (it’s far too techie). However, if you are a website designer or developer I seriously advise you subscribe to the RSS and twitter feed, some big names post here and it’s superb. – @alistapart
Top Web Related Tweeters
Here are all the webby type people i suggest you follow if you have anything to do with the internet. Not all will be relevant to everyone but they all have something great to offer!
This list has been formed and outed for you, because I was asked by a fellow designer for my list (and here it is), but now I want to go a step further and want your ideas! so tweet me @andykinsey the resource you favour using, from blogs to css galleries to books, let me know. – Or leave a comment.
Over the past few weeks you will have read a lot about branding, and over the next few weeks this will continue. But this week I want to introduce some new services that we can offer at exclusive rates through our mother company, Andy Kinsey Designs.
Our Marketing Packages start from an amazing £350 – thats around £50 extra on top of a fairly simple site for a lot more!
Our packages can be customised to meet you needs more closely, but we think we’ve got most companies covered, if not buy an add-on, if you still can’t find what you want then make an enquiry and leave the extra bit as a message/comment for us – we’re always looking to expand and something you want may also be something someone else wants!
And here’s the exciting bit!
We know that we can fill your need, but we also know we can fill that of many other businesses.
It is through this belief we are today opening our referral scheme.
Our scheme is so easy, there is no sign-up required just ask those you refer to enter your email as how they found our services! – thats it, we will then contact you about your payment. – Also we have no minimum payment requirements, aka we won’t hold your money hostage like some referral companies.
What Will We Pay? Here’s the great news!
For spending between £0 & £250 – We pay 10%
For spending between £251 & 500 – We pay 7.5%
For spending between £501 & £1999 – We pay 5%
Over £2000 – We pay 2.5%
Over the past few years I’ve read well over 50 SEO books (including these top seo books), some contained good advice, others were not so forthcoming. But all suffered from the same issues, they were aimed at designers and developers – they had jargon to the brim and explained various factors in such a complex manner that even I at times struggled to grasp what they were saying about something I already knew.
So last year I discussed with a few people an opportunity I have given my knowledge of the subject and my apparent way with words to cut out the jargon (the later has been commented on numerous times over the past year by readers of these articles). The opportunity was (as it is now) to write a unique book about SEO, a book where SEO advice and detail meets the real world of website owners, developers and designers together.
You see in my opinion and the opinions of those I’ve spoken to the world is not made up of these people working independently, indeed quite the opposite, in some cases they are all the same person. So why would you want to write a book aimed at a single type of person involved and not explain to others why something is being done a certain way? I wouldn’t.
Furthermore if you aim your book at the “skilled end” of designers and developers you leave your self alienated from those people whom are a small business or single person bidding for the attention of potential clients and readers whom want to get their hands dirty and do some simple coding or site updates to really help their site. So, I won’t be doing that either.
Instead I am about to begin putting pen to paper in writing an all encompassing SEO book, aimed at the real world – so it won’t contain jargon, it won’t be full of complex explanations and the examples won’t be so far fetched you have no idea where to start. The book will be a practical SEO guide written for the whole world, with the aim that even the newest of website owners with zero experience can really understand how to improve the website they own and make it stand out from the rest in terms of SEO.
So why am I telling you this before I’ve even begun writing? well…
I Need Your Help !!!
I have a list of topics I want to cover in the book, ranging from “what a spider is” and “what a SERP is” to Meta Tags to coding structure to content writing and beyond.
But to make this book a success I need to know what you want to see in the book, now I know I have covered a lot of stuff on this site and most of it will be in the book, but is there anything I have missed? Something you want to know more about? or any kind of myth or story you have heard that you want to know the truth about?
Whatever it is you want to know about SEO or see in an SEO book I need your help.
To get your ideas to me simply leave a comment below, tweet me, or e-mail me.
Over the past year and a bit i’ve had the same question again and again – can I download and keep your content.
The answer has always been “no” up until now!
Today we SEOAndy introduce the E-book PDF system. Each of our posts will be available to download, as many times as you want, just click the link at the bottom of the relevant post to view the PDF (or right click and save target as).
We will also soon be offering all of our SEO Posts in a single SEO Book – which will also include much more detail about all things SEO than we can offer in a simple SEO Post.
If you want to see a particular feature on this site let us know – leave a comment below or contact us
Are you the owner or person responsible for a website? Is the website being beaten to the top of Google or Bing by your competitors? Does the search market look scary? or maybe you’ve been trying for months but just can’t seem to get ranked by the search engines?
If you’ve answered “yes” to any of the above then here’s some good news for you!
SEOAndy today are introducing a new service, THE SEO CLINIC
We are excited to announce the launch of StayStAndrews a website for the visitors to St Andrews whom are looking for local accommodation within walking distance of the famous old golf course (which is located just 3 minutes walk from this stunning town house).
This single page website is built using scripting languages such as PHP and MooTools*, it also utilises the MultiMap API**. The site comprises of several sections including; a description of the spacious town house including its many features, an image gallery, contact form and interactive map. The site has a single page layout with no refreshes and a quick load time it is a seamless experience from the moment you start your visit.
So if your interested in hotels or bed and breakfast accommodation in St Andrews (Fife) then why not consider taking a look at this luxury town house at the heart of the town. Whether you want to rent one room for one night or four rooms for 6 months then why not enquire today about this spacious property.
Today has seen the launch of what is one of the more simple websites I have seen.
The site has been redesigned from being a busy rubbish ridden “thing” to being a simple website with a clear call to action without clutter. Now I’m not saying this site is perfect and I’m not saying that the redesign they have launched will work, but I like it and whats more its been launched by a friend who has been in the web design game as long as me (since 2005) whom is going to partner with me on several upcoming projects as he is a media mogul with his fingers in way too many digital pies.
So check out the site and give him a shout if you have an upcoming project you need media coverage for.
Well this is it my last post. No more will I be writing to unveil the secrets of the SEO world, no longer will I be giving free advice and tips, and no longer will I offer any SEO services … at least in 2009.
Had you going there, you should have seen you face… sorry but sometimes I need to grab your attention for all its worth and if I may can I keep it for a few more moments.
This post has no real content or relevance to anything else on this site, this post is simply me needing to say a few things.
Thank you to everyone who has helped make the last 7 months (and the start of my new life) possible. You are all amazing and without you I’d still be stuck in my little hole of a life not being the very happy person I am today.
The last 7 months have been amazing and I owe a lot of it to Crystals Limited – they’ve grown me beyond even their own expectations and I think that we all deserve a congratulatory pint
A special Thanks to all my clients old and new – who’ve pushed and pulled until we’ve both been happy with the end result. See some Design work.
A huge huge huge thanks to you ( my readers ) and commentators over the past year, without you this site wouldn’t be what it is.
So with that all tied up, I wish you farewell for 2009 and I hope to see you back for 2010.
Well as expected, Google top the chart – with 62.6% of the current market share, a loss of 1.1% from May 2010. Google was then followed by Yahoo! (18.9% up 0.6% from May). In third place was Bing (formerly MSN) with a growth of 0.6% taking Bing to an ever growing market share of 12.7%. In fourth remains ASK search network, at 3.6% and with no change from the previous month. Finally, in fifth is AOL who suffered a loss of 0.1% taking them to just 2.2% of the search market.
