12 Mar 10 Is the Honeymoon Over for Bing?

After eating up shares of Google and Yahoo! Search, Bing appears to have become satiated. The growth rate of the Microsoft baby has slowed down in February. According to a recent report by comScore qSearch data, Bing’s growth in February 2010 has been a mere 0.2 percent.

The industry in the month studied has not changed very much. Google saw a growth of 0.1%, Yahoo! fell by 0.2%, Ask network saw 0.1% decline, and there was no change in AOL LLC network’s usage. It has also kept the leaderboard as it was in the previous months. At number one is Google with 65.5% market share, at number two is Yahoo! with 16.8% market share, and number 3 spot is taken by Bing, which has 11.5% market share. (see image for details)

Seeing the sluggishness in the market, it is not apt to say that Bing has stagnated. The search volume of coming months will show us the real picture, until then let’s assume Bing is still binging.

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Tags: Aol, Comscore, Decline, google, Google Search, Google Yahoo, Honeymoon, Image, Leaderboard, Llc, Market Share, Microsoft, Number 3, Qsearch, Search Volume, Shares, Sluggishness, yahoo, Yahoo Search

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05 Mar 10 Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 11

This is the last post of the series, and in this part I will talk about how you can sound all knowledgeable to your readers by being on top of the news and by writing resource posts plus one more.

Set Alert in place

Set Google Alert, Twist (for twitter), and Blogscape (for blogs) for the keywords you are targeting, and be on top of the updates in your niche. You can then capitalize on the recent happenings and tell your readers how they can profit from it. By being top of the news, you will sound knowledgeable and will be regarded as an expert in your niche.

Write a resource post

A resource post is a must-have for any blog. It gives your users a reason to bookmark your page. A well-written resource post has an ability to pull visitors again and again to your blog. It is also very much digg-friendly. You need to have as many resource posts as you can think of.

Write quality guest posts

Guest posts are new black for blogging. Write quality guest posts, and while writing them you goal should not only be to get published on the blog of your choice, but also to lure the readers to your own blog. This could only happen if you write quality guest posts.

With this our 11-post long discussion on making your blog stand out from the crowd comes to an end. And I hope, you enjoyed the series, and worked on the bite-size tips shared in this post. You may like to bookmark this post, as I am providing links to all the posts that I wrote in the series. Let me know how you feel about this series, and what changes you would like to see in future series.

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Tags: Bite Size, blog, blogs, Bookmark, Crowd, Face, google, Niche, Quality Guest, Reason, Series Index, Twitter, Writing Resource

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28 Feb 10 Google Number 1 in terms of Reach and Facebook in terms of Customer Engagement

In a study conducted by the Nielsen Company of the Internet activities of the United States users it was found that Google still is number one site in terms of unique visitors, whereas, Facebook is number one in terms of time spent by the US users on the website.

In January, 16.5 million unique visitors used Google sites and spent 2:05:19 hours each on the website making it number one in terms of reach. At number two was Microsoft sites where 143.9 million visitors spent 1:57:58 hours each. In terms of unique visitors, Facebook stood on number four with 116.3 million visitors, even behind Yahoo that occupied number 3 slot with 138.9 million unique visitors.

But in terms of customer engagement (time spent by users), Facebook surpassed everyone including Google. On an average, a Facebook user spent 7:01:41 hours each on the website. At number two was Yahoo where users spent 2:28:33 hours each. Number three slot belonged to Google where users spent 2:05:19 hours each. (See image for complete detail).

Tags: 5 Million, Facebook, google, Internet Activities, Microsoft, Million Unique Visitors, Nielsen Company, Number 1, Number 3, United States, yahoo

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05 Mar 10 Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 11

Set Alert in place

Write a resource post

Write quality guest posts

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28 Feb 10 Google Number 1 in terms of Reach and Facebook in terms of Customer Engagement

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