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Google
Google is currently the biggest search engine in the world as far as businesses are concerned and it seems to be getting more dominant. Whatever the figures that are passed around about share of world-wide searches and search engine market share, we know where our traffic comes from!
About half of our total visitors come from search engines and of those visitors nearly 80% come from Google in some form or other. This may reflect our keyword and submission activity, but we have been fairly consistent in our work across all the engines and these statistics reflect the experience of other businesses as well .
The figures are similar if we restrict the reporting to only those visitors who resulted in a sale - Google still brings a lot of our business!
Useful notes and links relating to Google
| Google.com |
The main search engine site
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| Google.co.uk |
Google UK site
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| Webmaster information |
Google's own advice on how to get listed and ranked in their results
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| Google Keyword tool |
Google's keyword "sandbox" as they call it - enter your phrase and see all the related searches
More keywords information and tools
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| Google translate tools |
Google in different languages, search in a chosen language, translate between languages
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| Google Labs |
All the really clever new tools that most people have not seen yet
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| Google SMS |
Get Google answers using SMS on your mobile phone - text message your question to 64664 (6GOOG). Still a bit clunky but good fun (e.g. in pub quizzes!)
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| Google Sitemaps |
Create sitemaps and get Google to crawl all your pages
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| Google Banned Tool |
This free tool uses two methods to see if your site is indexed or may have been banned for some reason
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| Google contact form |
Direct contact to Google for WebMasters - use this if your pages seem to have been dropped from the Google index or you have other webmaster problems
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WebMaster Pages 
