HitWise (a very reputable source) now lists Google as accounting for 65.13% of all US searches for the four weeks ending May 26, 2007. This is very much in line with what we are seeing when analyzing our client’s statistics.
Amazing.
This is up 10% over the past year.
Yahoo came in second at just over 20%.
Over the last few weeks, some very interesting news has come out regarding the usage of the Internet and search engines in China and India. Let’s compare some of the numbers with the United States.
UNITED STATES – 154 million regular Internet Users – 68% of population
CHINA – 150 million regular Internet Users – 10.5 % of population
INDIA – 25 million regular Internet Users – 7.5% of urban population
Hippo Internet Marketing opened our new Charlotte SEO Training Office in Cornelius, North Carolina this week. We packed up much of our Asheville area office on Thursday and Friday. Friday night, we took the 26–foot truck down Old Fort Mountain (at about 30 MPH the whole way) and headed east.
Jason will continue to work out of Black Mountain for another month or so. And I will be traveling back and forth between Charlotte and Asheville about once per week.
Here are some videos of the new office.
Sandy and I now call Davidson Pointe our new home. We moved into the new house this past weekend. Davidson is a very cute little town north of Charlotte in the Lake Norman region. Our home is toward the center of this development of about 150 homes.
Davidson Pointe is basically on a penninsula, which is nice. The homes are being built by Saussy Burbank and we got the “Avery” floor plan. About half of the homes are built and sold. The whole place will take about two years total, we hear. So this time next year it may be complete.
Here’s some videos to help you see what it looks like.
This morning Sandy and I signed the papers and have closed on our new home in Davidson, North Carolina. We will be packing Thursday and Friday. We’ll fill a big 26 foot truck on Friday afternoon and unpack it Saturday morning.
Unfortunately, most online marketers think Keyword Research is just running some basic ideas through WordTracker or KeywordDiscovery. Yesterday, I spent the entire day researching phrases for the North Carolina mountain properties we are marketing.
Here’s the thorough approach I used…
I woke up at 6:00 AM this morning to exercise and got seriously distracted by my email. The main culprit was that Danny Sullivan’s first ever Search Marketing Expo had finished day one the night before.