{"id":28,"date":"2008-11-04T17:57:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T22:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slxls.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/04\/search-engine-market-share\/"},"modified":"2008-11-11T15:15:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T20:15:47","slug":"search-engine-market-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/search-engine-market-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Engine Market Share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The market share of the larger search engines are as follows: Google &#8211; 60%, Yahoo &#8211; 18%, MSN &#8211; 12%, AOL &#8211; 4%, and Ask &#8211; 2%.\u00c2\u00a0 Google clearly has the largest presence with regards to search engines, while Yahoo has a decent portion of the business, and MSN has a small but still noticeable presence.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though Google has 60% of the market, that is still only 10% more than half of the market share of search engines.\u00c2\u00a0 This means that as webmasters, we can not simply focus our attention on Google regarding search engine optimization.\u00c2\u00a0 If a webmaster solely optimizes their web site for Google, they are in reality missing out on a potential 40% of searches.\u00c2\u00a0 Recently, I have seen may webmasters concentrating all of their effort on their ranking with Google and completely neglecting the other search engines.\u00c2\u00a0 If a webmaster is creating quality content, positive link building, etc. then your rankings in all of the search engines should be fairly constant.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead of optimizing your site for a certain search engine, focus on all of them and your website will gain exposure and grow even more in a universal manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The market share of the larger search engines are as follows: Google &#8211; 60%, Yahoo &#8211; 18%, MSN &#8211; 12%, AOL &#8211; 4%, and Ask &#8211; 2%.\u00c2\u00a0 Google clearly has the largest presence with regards to search engines, while Yahoo has a decent portion of the business, and MSN has a small but still noticeable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,62,56,25,61],"tags":[71,44,43],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-msn","category-search-engines","category-seo-search-engine-optimization","category-yahoo","tag-71","tag-markt-share","tag-search-engine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}