Google #3 !!!

Some interesting statistics from the fine folks at Neilson/NetRatings regarding Yahoo! MSN ranking #1 and #2 of all online search engines and portals. The stats below are for the week ending December 27, 2005: Top 10 Online Search Engines/Portals & Communities Destinations: #1 – Yahoo!Audience – 69,659,000Active Reach – 53.9%Time Per Person – 1:11:56 #2 […]

ComScore’s Latest On The Holidays

ComScore today released their most recent statistics on consumer online spending over the holiday season of 2005. The spending increase continues to hold steady at 24% higher than in 2004. ComScore estimates that online non-travel spending will exceed $19 billion in 2005. Statistically next week should show a significant decline over this past week however […]

SEO For The Big Three

Ranking your website highly on one of the “big three” search engines (Google, Yahoo or MSN) is a daunting task let alone ranking your website highly on all three. Three engines, three algorithms, three different sets of rules – and yet there are websites out there that have first page rankings across them all – […]

Holiday Shopping Update

ComScore released their first set of holiday shopping stats back on November 23rd which indicated a 24% growth to that point. Was it that people were starting their shopping earlier? Apparently not. The predicted % growth over last year holds steady at 24% in the non-travel related sectors with a 59% increase in sports and […]

Climbing the Beanstalk November 28, 2005

Welcome to the November 28, 2005 edition of “Climbing The Beanstalk”, the monthly newsletter on search engines and search engine positioning from Beanstalk. With major updates on Google and Yahoo! and some announcements in regards to new offerings, the past month has been a biggie for the SEO community and webmasters in general. So let’s […]

Google Analytics Analysis

Veteran SEO Jim Hedger has published another great article, this time on Google Analytics and the usefulness of understanding what website visitors are doing on your site. He discusses conversions and how to increase them using this free tool and covers what Google will accomplish by offering this service free. While I obviously believe SEO […]

Free Urchin Web Analytics

Google announced this morning that their web analytics tool (formerly Urchin) is now being offered free to all website owners. While I have to admit that Urchin is not my favorite of the web analytics tools, it’s certainly better than the vast majority (including the one you probably got with your hosting package) and at […]

SEO For The New Google

For those who’s businesses rely on the Internet to produce revenue the latest Google update, nicknamed Jagger, was one of the biggest events in the past couple years (probably since the Florida Update of 2003). With this 3-part update Google has essentially changed many of the rules and have thrown the SEO community for a […]