SEO4U - Reach the top on net

Google - 47.7%, Yahoo! - 21.8%, MSN - 11.3%

Nielsen//NetRatings reported the volume of Internet search queries growing to more than 5.1 bln in October 2005, up 15% from five months ago. Ask Jeeves led as the fastest growing search player out of the top five search engines, skyrocketing 77% in search volume, while Google maintained its leader position with the largest market share of nearly half of all searches, or 48%, by generating 2.4 bln requests.

Top search engines in October 2005
	Total searches, 000
Search engine	June 2005	October 2005	Growth	Share
Google	2,032,222	2,449,396	21%	47.7%
Yahoo!	965,642	1,118,429	16%	21.8%
MSN	540,686	582,702	8%	11.3%
AOL	358,667	368,130	3%	7.2%
Ask	75,808	133,932	77%	2.6%
Total	4,447,406	5,134,713	15%
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings

Web site Optimization Report

The Internet has changed the way we do business.

88% of all Americans go online everyday and a recent study showed that 85% of users research products and services on the Internet before they purchase.

Your web site a vital tool in your Internet marketing strategy and PR campaign - your online face to the world. It needs to be an effective marketing tool that gets return on your investment and produces qualified leads that turn into customers.

Web site optimization is important in an Internet marketing strategy for two reasons - it increases your search engine visibility so that it can be found and it makes the site easy to use your site needs useful content your visitors will want to read and come back to

Our web site optimization report will show you where your site is not performing.

Even the most perfect web site is no use at all if it is never found and seen by the right audience.

Since a big chunk of your traffic comes via a search engine, optimization is essential. Make your website as search engine friendly as you can. 80% of all traffic from a search query goes to the companies who are listed in the top half of the first page of results. Very few searchers go beyond the third page.

Once you get a visitor to your web site you have less than 10 seconds to keep their interest and get them to click into the site. On average, business websites lose 60% of their traffic off the home page and 80% within three clicks. Average conversion rates (turning visitor into customers) are a miserable 2%.