Google Powered Nearly 7 out of 10 Organic Searches in April

"According to comScore’s latest qSearch analysis of the U.S. search engine market, Google powered nearly 70 percent of all organic searches in April, leaving Bing with about 26 percent of organic searches.

Google Sites claimed 66.5 percent of explicit core searches in April, up 0.1 percentage points from its 66.4 percent share in March. By comScore’s definition, “explicit core search” doesn’t include contextually driven searches that don’t reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results."

Article Written By: Jason Hahn on May 16, 2012 at DM Confidential

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Android: 48.5% of the U.S. Smartphone Market

According to Nielsen, Android OS had nearly half of the U.S. smartphone OS market in the first quarter of 2012. Google Android OS claimed 48.5 percent of smartphone owners in the first quarter, followed by Apple iOS with 32.0 percent and RIM BlackBerry with 11.6...

Article Written By: Jason Hahn on May 9, 2012 at DM Confidential

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Nearly 26% of Shoppers Will Buy Mother’s Day Gifts Online

Another set of statistics showing the continued growth in online commerce.

Article Written By: Jason Hahn on May 2, 2012 at DMConfidential

"According to the National Retail Federation (NRF) and BIGinsight, the average U.S. consumer celebrating Mother’s Day is expected to spend $152.52 on gifts, up 8.4 percent from $140.73 last year. Total spending is expected to reach $18.6 billion. "

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Tweets Affect Google Rankings?

Although Tweets do not directly improve SEO, it interesting that generally speaking those with strong Google rankings also tweet often.

Article Written By: Jason Hahn on May 2, 2012 at DMConfidential

"Branded3 recently conducted “the biggest study of its kind” to find that there is, indeed, a strong correlation between the amount of tweets about a URL and its Google ranking. Among the major findings is that the average ranking for URLs with more than 7,500 tweets is just under No. 5 overall.

According to the study, the average ranking across all URLs is 54.17. The average ranking for URLs with more than 500 tweets is 45.81, while the average ranking for URLs with more than 1,000 tweets is 40.76 and the average ranking for URLs with more than 5,000 tweets is 30.51."

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