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Jack Marshall of Clickz.com answers a question in his recent blog post, Yahoo and Bing Lose U.S. Search Share in November, that I am asked all the time.

The Question: What percentage of online searches begin with Google versus Yahoo and Bing?

My answer, per Jack Marshall:

"Google accounted for almost 72 percent of all U.S. searches conducted during the four weeks ending November 28th 2009, according to data from Experian Hitwise.

The search giant grew its overall share of searches by one percentage point in that period, while its closest competitors in the space -- Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing -- both experienced a decline, dropping 5 percent and 2 percent respectively."

I love Jack's title because rather than focus on Google's triumph, he focuses on Yahoo and Bings loss.

Brent Turner brings up some great points about online advertising now generating more and more phone calls.  The old thought has always been, when someone is using the internet to research something, why would they turn to the phone to get answers?

Here are my two cents on quality score:

Penny #1: It's like your credit so watch it carefully.  If you let your credit score slip, it is very difficult and it takes a long time to improve.  With your bills, missing payments on one account will have a negative effect on your credit score. Quality score is similar in that it only takes one bad keyword to effect your entire campaign.

Just yesterday I spoke with a man that can't figure out how come he isn't seeing more sales from his website.  As soon as I read this article from Marketing Pilgrim, I thought of him because his website just isn't that easy to use.

More than half of Get Found First's clients are Local Business Owners.  They need to be optimized incredibly well for local search and we help them out!

We always stay abreast of what is new and exciting, and what may be disruptive to the success of our clients online presence.

Please read Kevin Lee's article and know that Get Found First can help you when and if Google decides to add more sponsored links to search results:

As Get Found First continues to grow, we are looking at offering to customers that qualify, a cost-per-lead pricing model where our clients only pay us when we help them get a new patient.

One of the worries that we have is that a lot of our potential clients won't have a clue what a new patient is worth to them.

With Get Found First Google AdWords Qualified Professional status, we are able to guarantee that all of our clients show up on the first page of Google within 24 hours of when they sign up for our services!

Yes.  I specialize in PPC management.  I help people "Get Found First" on Google through paid advertisements.  But, as you may have already seen on our site, we help website owners get on the first page of Google through natural, organic or free listings as well that show up on the left side of the page.

Recently, I read an article calling "SEO Best Practices" bunk.  Bunk means bogus; not the real deal, if you will.

I TOTALLY AGREE (but believe there are exceptions).

Jack Marshall of www.Clickz.com said the following in a post on Sept. 1st, 2009, "Not only does Google continue to dominate the global search market, it's also growing faster than any of its competitors, according to data from comScore.

What do people do when they are online?  Pew American Internet Study says that, "91% of all internet users say search is the number one activity they do online."

WOW!