Bill Hartzer

Paris Hilton Fires Back at John McCain; Stays At Top of Search Phrases

Paris Hilton fired back at John McCain in response to Presidential Candidate John McCain's recent television ad. John McCain's TV ad compared Senator Barack Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Paris Hilton stayed atop the Lycos to(TM) Top Search Terms for the week ending August 2nd, 2008. Every week ...

comScore Releases June 2008 Search Engine Rankings

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR) has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In June 2008, Americans conducted 11.5 billion core searches, representing a 7-percent gain versus May. In June 2008, Google retained its lead in the U.S. search market capturing 61.5 percent of the searches conducted, down slightly ...

Alex Rodriguez and Madonna Surge in Searches on Lycos Network

According to Lycos, the rumors of an affair between Alex Rodriguez and Madonna caused a huge surge in the number of searches for their names last week. Other searches that surged last week were searches for Grey's Anatomy's Katherine Heigl, Nicole Kidman, Jesse Jackson and the iPhone. Lycos maintains The Lycos ...

comScore Releases May 2008 Search Engine Rankings

comScore has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the United States search engine rankings for May, 2008. Last month, searchers in the United States conducted 10.8 billion core searches. Google increased their market share slightly according to the stats. In May, Google's core searches reached 61.8 percent, which was up ...

comScore Releases March 2008 United States Search Engine Rankings

As a follow-up to yesterday's comScore post, I thought I would update you on the United States' search engine rankings. comScore has released the search engine data for March 2008. This is part of their monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search engine marketplace in the United States. During March 2008 ...

ComScore Releases Web Rankings for March 2008, Yellow Book and MLB Top Gainers

comScore has released their monthly internet rankings for March 2008. Among the notable changes this past month is the increased traffic to the Yellow Book Network as well as more traffic to MLB.com. The typical NCAA "March Madness" drove a lot of traffic to online gambling sites. According to comScore, the ...

Top United Kingdom Internet Rankings for January 2008

comScore, Inc. has released its January 2008 rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internet web properties and site categories in the United Kingdom. The rankings are based on data taken from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. In January 2008, there was an increase to the travel, career, tax, and ...

Cyber Monday Spending Hits Record $733 Million

Cyber Monday, November 26, 2007 had its unbelievable snafoos, but it ultimately was a success. In fact, comScore is reporting that sales are up 21 percent over last year. comScore also said today that Amazon.com and Wal-Mart were the top online retailers amongst all of the Cyber Monday visitors on November ...

comScore Releases October 2007 US Search Engine Rankings

comScore, the company that measures the digital world, has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis for October 2007. Google's web sites remained at the top and had more than 6.1 billion searches which represented a 58.5 percent share of the search market. According to comScore, October 2007 was a strong ...

Conduit Launches Community Trends Index

Conduit has released the first monthly results of their new Community Trends index where you can see what online communities are searching for. Community Trends, like StumbleUpon, is moving beyond automated Web discovery to offer a way to see what others find useful or interesting on the Internet-–but the main difference, ...

March 15th 2010
Tags: Search Engine Optimization 4 Comments

How Search Engine Optimization Adds Value to a Website

Most likely, if you have a website for your business, you probably have been pitched by a host of companies about the benefits of Search Engine Optimization. And, as someone who has been actively practicing organic search engine optimization since 1996, I am probably just as qualified as anyone else ...
March 10th 2010
Tags: Search Engine Marketing 4 Comments

Search Engine Optimization: Is Social Sharing the Next Link Building?

I just finished reading an interesting TechCrunch article about how Google has upgrade Google Reader, making it more visual. What's interesting to me, as a search engine optimization expert and online marketer, is not the fact that Google has upgrade Google Reader. It is, after all, pretty cool stuff. No ...
March 10th 2010
Tags: Internet Usage One Comment

comScore February 2010 Search Engine Rankings

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) , a leader in measuring the digital world, ...
March 9th 2010
Tags: Search Engines No Comments

CheapTweet Upgrades Its Social Deals Search Engine

CheapTweet.com, a major Twitter-based social deals search engine site, has launched CheapTweet Version 2, in celebration of indexing over 5 million deals online to offer users an better social shopping experience. CheapTweet's 2.0 rollout adds upgrades to its core search engine, voting mechanism, and a new look and feature called ...

Search Engine Optimization and Network Marketing: How to Get More Leads

I had an interesting conversation over the weekend with Marvin, who called me to discuss Network Marketing. Somehow we had become connected through Facebook or another social networking website and he thought that since we were tagged as being friends online he believed that that gave him permission to call ...

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