2011 Google Toolbar Page Rank Update

Google Toolbar Page Rank underwent minor updates in the past few months.However many webmasters were waiting for a major update for the past couple of months,as the last major update was on April 3,2010.There was only 1 main update in 2010,while the previous year 2009 witnessed 5 major updates.

At the beginning of this new year 2011, the first major update was seen on Jan 20,2011.

A list of all the recent updations can be viewed here

Some views on the importance of the Page Rank : http://www.seroundtable.com/pagerank-update-jan11-12832.html

Tags: Google, page rank update, webmasters

The Performances of Google, Yahoo and MSN in 2010

The world of search engine technologies has been altering at an extraordinarily fast rate. Even from one year to the next, one can view major trends in how the search engines are faring.

Based on the report release by Hitwise, 2009 witnessed Google in the top spot, Yahoo Mail in second spot, the core Yahoo search in the fourth spot, Microsoft’s Live Mail in the sixth spot, the Yahoo search page in eighth spot, and MSN in ninth spot. This signifies that 6 of the top 10 sites belonged to one of the search engine giants.

Presently, in 2010, Facebook has reached the number one slot. The Yahoo properties remain chiefly unaffected; Yahoo Mail is now in third , the core Yahoo page is in fourth, and the Yahoo search page is in ninth. For the time being, Microsoft seems to be creeping up. MSN grabbed the number 6 slot, and while Live Mail dropped to position eight, Bing crept into the tenth slot.

Though it may look like Yahoo and MSN are closing the gap on Google, it should be noted that there’s a major gap between the second and third slots for 2010. While Google’s third place ranking is from having around seven percent of all online traffic, Yahoo Mail’s third place position depicts only about three percent.

The above study is based on pages that obtain visits most recurrently, and is based far more on repeat visits than it is on exclusive visitors.

Tags: bing, Google, MSN, Search Engine, Yahoo