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Primary Search Engines Traffic Statistics

Learn how to get the most from your SEO project.
It is about how people search, what words they use. Use their words, often , but with valuable reader content and you will be found.

At Zeus SEO design & Search Engines:

How people search in your market

What keyword combinations work best

Who's on top -- how leading Search Engines Rate

What you should know about Search Engines

Choosing the Best Search Engine

There are so many search engines, where should I list my site?

You may be under the old impression, in order to get listed in a search engine, I must pay a submission fee. O.k., here's the first reality check. Most primary search engines such as Google actually index pages automatically, without you having to do anything. This may take some time however, several weeks to months.You will also notice that Yahoo offers business listings for $299.00. Some of our clients have found that they saw some positive movement when paying the Yahoo search submission fee, but dropped like a rock upon a failed billing attempt. What's worse, their site never recovered on Yahoo.com until they allowed the site to be unlisted for a little over one year.

Another client attempted to use the Search Submit program, thinking it would improve their ranking with Yahoo. They were pulling first and second page search engine results for most of their 2 an 3 word terms Yahoo declined their submission as the site's primary mission was as an affiliate account. Now the bad part, shortly after Yahoo's decline, the site totally disappeared from Yahoo's search results. In fact, its been almost two years and it is still nowhere to be found today.

We're not telling you not to use Yahoo Search Submit, in fact, we really like Yahoo's Overture Pay Per Click program. We're merely pointing out the potential downside, should your site be viewed unfavorably.

Unfortunately, listing alone will not get your site "placed or ranked high", time and additional SEO optimization of your site's targeted keywords is required to bring your site up to a higher rank in the search engines.

In the early days of search engine optimization, developers focused on meta-tags as the primary way to attract search engine traffic. Meta-tags are HTML tags that help describe the document they are located within. Although meta tags sometimes play a role in the recognition of web sites, we now know that there are many more factors that go into the process. Now search engines concentrate on site content, internal link structure and link popularity as well.

search engine statistics

The comScore Media Metrix qSearch service measures search-specific traffic on the internet. qSearch data is gathered by monitoring the web activities of 1.5 million English-speakers worldwide (1 million in the United States) via proxy metering.

Proxy metering allows comScore to see exactly how those within its panel have surfed the web. From this data, the company then extracts activity that's considered to be specifically search-related.

Below are figures about searching from qSearch figures released to the public.

Share Of Searches: July 2006
The pie chart below shows the percentage of searches done by US web surfers at home, work and at universities in July 2006 that were performed at a particular web site or a network of web sites:

Search Engine Traffic

The qSearch figures are search-specific but not necessarily web-search specific. For example, a search performed at Yahoo Sports would count toward Yahoo's overall total. Also note that some companies own more than one web site. This means searches at different sites may be combined into one overall figure for the company's entire network. Here's a rundown with more details about this:

Google: Shows searches at any Google-owned web site such as Google.com or Google Image Search.
Yahoo: Shows searches at any Yahoo-owned web site including those of AltaVista, AllTheWeb and Overture. May show searches at some Google partners that show Google's domain in the URLs of their search results, as happens with Go.com.
MSN: Shows searches at any MSN-operated web site such as MSN Search.
AOL: Shows searches at any Time Warner-owned web site, including AOL Search and Netscape Search.
Ask: Shows searches at Ask and any site within the Ask-owned Excite Network, including Excite, iWon, MyWay.com and My Web Search.
Other: Shows searches that occur at other search sites.

Search Engine Facts Search Engine Facts

Over 80% of web site traffic is generated from the top ten search engines.
Overall search-engine-driven traffic increased by 9% during the last year. This was much slower growth than the 95% recorded from 2001 to 2002. The extreme growth in 2001 was likely due to the emergence of Google as the dominant search engine, since Google has a tendency to drive traffic to high-quality websites.
About 85% of qualified Internet traffic is generated through search engines.
75% of searchers never look further than page one. courtesy of Georgia Institute of Technology
Search engine optimization ranked #1 promotional strategy used by e-commerce websites
In an average day, Web users report searching the Internet (57%) and looking for product information (46%) more often than any other activity except email.

Search Engine Statistics

Statistics courtesy of Statistical Research Inc. and ActivMedia Research, Chart courtesy of www.SearchEngines.com