According to the statistics of August 2007 posted at Search Engine Land, Google covers 53,6% of the searching on the internet. That’s quite a lot, but what most people tend to forget, is that there is another 46,7% that also holds lots of potential visitors/customers.
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When you have to focus on one search engine, it’s easy to pick one. But as a webdeveloper or SEO, we can use more than one search engine. Focussing to much on Google, leaves unused opertunities at the other search engines.
Imagine a website, receiving 500 unique visitors a day. These 500 visitors are roughly 50% of the searching users on the internet. What if the other 50% could find your blog too, with the same ease as they could find them in Google? It would double the unique visitors via search engines!
The chances are there, we just have to take them
If we can develop a way, that our pages will be found with the same ease as they are found in Google, we could double our profit from search engines. The other (smaller) search engines are doing the best they can, in a attempt to return relevant search results, but the far more advanced Google keeps his little ‘opponents’ in the shadow.
I will be searching for (and blogging) tips and practical aids, to make sure other search engines pick up your articles the way you want to, in the coming days. If we can master this, our pages will have a major advantage above all other articles, that are strictly aimed for Google-indexability.
Future of search engines
If there is a niche in the world of webdevelopment and the internet, that is growing fast, it’s gotta be the world of search engines. People who want to monitor all the changes, really have a day filling job doing that.
Every day, Google changes something, opens up a new feature or buys another product like buying cheese in the supermarket. Sure, Google is the most innovative search engine, it’s the search engine with the most potential at this moment. But still, that not a reason to spend zero attention to the other search engines, that (all together) can provide you with (almost) the same amount of visitors as Google can (on it’s own).
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