Facebook Search Queries Drop 14% In One Month

comScore has released it October 2009 Search Engine Rankings. From comScore: In October 2009, Americans conducted 14.3 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.4 percent search market share, up from 64.9 percent in September. Microsoft Sites grabbed 9.9 percent market share, up 0.5 percentage points versus September. October 2009 U.S. Core Search Rankings Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in October with 65.4 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (18.0 percent), and Microsoft Sites (9.9 percent). Ask Network captured 3.9 percent of the search market, followed by AOL LLC with 2.9 percent. October 2009 Search Engine Rankings No search engine market share surprises. However, comScore’s Expanded Search Rankings press release neglects to mention one major web property’s search query surprise – October 2009 U.S. Expanded Search Rankings In the October analysis of the top properties where search activity is observed, Google Sites led the search market with 13.5 billion search queries, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.7 billion queries and Microsoft Sites with 1.5 billion searches. Bing experienced the largest growth of the top ten expanded search properties with an 8-percent increase in query volume to more than 1.2 billion searches. Expanded Search Facebook’s search query volume dropped a whopping 14% from September 2009 to October 2009 – the largest drop of any of the major web properties comScore tracks. Any ideas why?

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Facebook Search Queries Drop 14% In One Month

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How to Track Competitor Search Engine Rankings with SEJ Tools

SEJ tools have a very handy SERPs tracking option that allows you to track rankings of multiple keyword sets in Google, Yahoo! and Bing. But beside just monitoring your keyword positions, the utility gives you one more really useful option: compare your rankings with your closest competitors. Here’s a quick how-to: 1. Start by adding the keywords to the tracker: there are several ways to do that: Add keywords manually: go SERPs > Keywords and add one keyword per line or upload a CSV file; Analyze your on-page keywords and generate keyword suggestions from there: go RESEARCH > Research Assistant , provide your URL and let the tool extract keyword from the page. Now just select those you find useful enough and add them to the tracker; Analyze your domain rankings: go RESEARCH > Research Assistant , provide your domain and let the tool check your current rankings. Choose the words you want to track and / or improve rankings and add them to the tracker: 2. Once the list of the words to track is more or less complete, add your competitor(s) you want to compare: go SERPs > Competitors and add your competitor. Now, go SERPs > SERP tracker and enjoy a handy interface that will allow to easily compare your rankings: Enjoy! Try 30 Day Free Trial of SEJ Tools with No Credit Card needed to Sign Up … You’ll LOVE SEJ tools ! Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . How to Track Competitor Search Engine Rankings with SEJ

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Rank Tracking across Hundreds of Search Engines: Rank Tracker

Just a couple of weeks ago I’ve done a detailed review of the advanced backlink research tool – SEO SpyGlass . The tool has had very positive feedback from our readers which prompted me to check other tools by the same developer. And to tell you the truth, I’ve been very much impressed by their Rank Tracker tool – this post shares why I actually liked it so much ( as always I’d love you to share your experience and thoughts! ). Features I liked a lot: (!) 560 supported search engines (including various local search engines) (!) Support of Google Caffeine (great for rankings comparison); (!) The ability to track rankings on the set dates; (!) Keyword suggestions (via various advanced tools); (!) Convenient data organization and visualization. 1. Check Rankings for Multiple Phrases in Hundreds of Search

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