Online Marketing News This Week – 9 July 2010

I thought a bit of a digest thing might be useful.  Just to sort of cover what was news in SEO and online marketing during the week.  I didn’t have time to get together a very exhaustive list of sources but here is some stuff that might help keep you up to date.

Bing grows by 7% for June 2010

Experian Hitwise has released its most recent data on Search.  Google is still the massively dominant player with 71.65% of all US searches but Bing continues to show impressive growth.  Bing is up 7% in the last month alone growing from 9.23% of searches to 9.85%.   Read the Hitwise Search Share for June 2010 for more details.

Bucketloads of people have smart phones and they use them a lot

75% of US adults are on mobile Internet and more than half of those (55%) go online with their mobile phones at least once a day.  Nearly 1 in 3  smartphone owners has contacted or gone into a business after finding it with local search.  They are also checking reviews, prices etc. and looking for better deals while they are in the shop.  You can read the Search Engine Land article on smartphone use here.

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1. Online Marketing This Week – July 24th
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4. Online Marketing News This Week – 2nd Sept 2010
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