Comments on: Mythbuster: The Biggest Myth Online Is About Google http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2007/11/21/google-mythbuster/ Search Engine Optimization Journal or the SEO Journal is an SEO Blog by SEO expert and Brick Marketing President, Nick Stamoulis. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:29:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: namecritic http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2007/11/21/google-mythbuster/comment-page-1/#comment-18472 namecritic Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:34:22 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2007/11/21/mythbuster-the-biggest-myth-online-is-about-google/#comment-18472 Yeah, you want google traffic too, but it is not the only source of traffic. That seems to be the point of the article if you missed it. Prove to me google has 80% of the people who use the web using their search engine. You can't. You believe the hype. People who use google do more searches per day than people who use msn, yahoo, aol, and others. Google has 60% of the searches done, not 60% of the people who use the web. There is a big difference in having the most searches and having the most people doing searches. Yahoo has more users is my bet. Does that mean I do not want google traffic? No. Does it mean that google has the best traffic? No. Depending on the type of business you are in, yahoo or msn traffic may actually convert at a higher rate than google traffic. How many people find websites and blogs through stumbleupon? Digg? Technorati? No one is counting the number of searches done on those sites and figuring that into what the search engine percentages are because they are not search engines. The fact remains, search engine or not, social networking websites account for a high number of searches and that number is growing faster than that of any search engine. Google hasn't been a portal for searches forever. People still made money on their websites. How did they ever do that before google was a portal? How could they have possibly survived? It's called Internet marketing, not Google Marketing. The point Nick was trying to make and the point I am trying to make here is that you should be getting traffic from all kinds of sources not just from google. Yeah, you want google traffic too, but it is not the only source of traffic. That seems to be the point of the article if you missed it.

Prove to me google has 80% of the people who use the web using their search engine. You can’t. You believe the hype.

People who use google do more searches per day than people who use msn, yahoo, aol, and others. Google has 60% of the searches done, not 60% of the people who use the web.

There is a big difference in having the most searches and having the most people doing searches. Yahoo has more users is my bet.

Does that mean I do not want google traffic? No. Does it mean that google has the best traffic? No. Depending on the type of business you are in, yahoo or msn traffic may actually convert at a higher rate than google traffic.

How many people find websites and blogs through stumbleupon? Digg? Technorati? No one is counting the number of searches done on those sites and figuring that into what the search engine percentages are because they are not search engines.

The fact remains, search engine or not, social networking websites account for a high number of searches and that number is growing faster than that of any search engine.

Google hasn’t been a portal for searches forever. People still made money on their websites. How did they ever do that before google was a portal? How could they have possibly survived?

It’s called Internet marketing, not Google Marketing. The point Nick was trying to make and the point I am trying to make here is that you should be getting traffic from all kinds of sources not just from google.

]]> By: Barbara http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2007/11/21/google-mythbuster/comment-page-1/#comment-18441 Barbara Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:42:35 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2007/11/21/mythbuster-the-biggest-myth-online-is-about-google/#comment-18441 I take issue with the comments that you don't need Google, and of course the statistics you cite are out of date--Google percentage is closer to 80% now. For a product or service that is non local or high demand, you could potentially be okay without Google, but for local businesses or products or services with a smaller market - you ignore Google at your peril. (There are good reasons Google has become a verb!) I take issue with the comments that you don’t need Google, and of course the statistics you cite are out of date–Google percentage is closer to 80% now. For a product or service that is non local or high demand, you could potentially be okay without Google, but for local businesses or products or services with a smaller market – you ignore Google at your peril. (There are good reasons Google has become a verb!)

]]> By: Gireesh http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2007/11/21/google-mythbuster/comment-page-1/#comment-8694 Gireesh Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:48:26 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2007/11/21/mythbuster-the-biggest-myth-online-is-about-google/#comment-8694 I do not advocate Google, but google still rules because of its innovative technologies. Gireesh Kumar Sharma Sr. Content Writer Recognize, Nourish and Retain Talent E-Mail: gksharma@saigun.com EmpXtrack www.EmpXtrack.com www.Saigun.com +91 120 431 5560/ 431 5561 I do not advocate Google, but google still rules because of its innovative technologies.

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]]> By: March 2007 Search Engine Stats | ChaseSagum.com http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2007/11/21/google-mythbuster/comment-page-1/#comment-5601 March 2007 Search Engine Stats | ChaseSagum.com Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:05:54 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2007/11/21/mythbuster-the-biggest-myth-online-is-about-google/#comment-5601 [...] also show that you don’t necessarily need to fully depend on Google only for your traffic. Nick Stamoulis wrote about how if traffic can be sustained by 2 out of the 3 other search engines that you can be [...] [...] also show that you don’t necessarily need to fully depend on Google only for your traffic. Nick Stamoulis wrote about how if traffic can be sustained by 2 out of the 3 other search engines that you can be [...]

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