June 2010 Search Engine Rankings

RESTON, VA, July 13, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In June 2010, Americans conducted 16.4 billion core searches, up 3 percent vs. May.

June 2010 U.S. Core Search Rankings

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May 2010 Search Engine Rankings

RESTON, VA, June 11, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In May 2010, Americans conducted 15.9 billion core searches, up 3 percent vs. April.

May 2010 U.S. Core Search Rankings

Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in May with 63.7 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (up 0.6 percentage points to 18.3 percent), and Microsoft Sites (up 0.3 percentage points to 12.1 percent). Both Yahoo! Sites and Microsoft Sites have experienced gains due in part to the continued utilization of contextual search approaches that tie content and related search results together. Ask Network captured 3.6 percent of the search market, followed by AOL LLC with 2.3 percent.

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March 2010 Search Engine Rankings

RESTON, VA, April 12, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In March 2010, Americans conducted 15.4 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.1 percent search market share.

Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in March with 65.1 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (16.9 percent), and Microsoft Sites (11.7 percent). Ask Network captured 3.8 percent of the search market, followed by AOL LLC with 2.5 percent.
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Who Owns Your Google Account?

Google Account ownership can be a cause for conflict and data loss when client and service provider decide to part ways, or your marketing expert suddenly vanishes.

This is especially true with Google Analytics Accounts. The question of account ownership needs to be addressed at the beginning of the relationship, as Google Analytics accounts and profiles are generally not transferable. I have successfully moved profiles for a handful of clients, but both parties need to be willing to transfer control. Google Support has also helped on one occasion to re-acquire access to an account once we were able to prove ownership.

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Google & The Keyword Tag Myth

I have been telling clients and others for several years now that Google Does Not use the Keyword Meta-tag. My proclamations have been met with scorn, disbelief and amusement.

Google themselves have said as much, but always in pretty obscure postings, or at SEO conferences. Well, today they finally posted a public statement on the Webmaster Central Blog what I already knew, and people have argued and debated for years. Google Does Not include the keyword tag in it’s ranking of websites.

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