Staying with Overture, if you’re running a pay-per-click campaign on this
tool, you may be surprised to know that not all of its partner search engines
display results in the same way. Here’s a chart to show how different bidding
positions can get you the most exposure:
Paid inclusion services represent an opportunity to guarantee that your
website will be spidered for inclusion within natural search engine
listings.
Inbound links are a key factor in the way many search engine rank your site.
To see how many links there are into your site you can type
link:www.yourdomain.co.uk in Google’s search box, (or many of the other main
search tools), and the resulting page will list those pages where links are
recognised into your domain.
There has been limited research conducted on search engine usage over recent
years, but US search marketing firm I-Prospect has just published a detailed
survey looking at the search behaviour of a sample of 1,649 respondents from
that country. The findings make interesting reading:
