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10,000 Sites, 1,000 Search Engines, 0 Value
There Aren’t Really 1,000 Search Engines Many sites or web design companies will offer to submit your site to a vast amount of search engines. The truth of the matter is that very few search engines matter, and those that do will find you whether you submit your site to them or not. From the Net Marketshare report, as of April 2011, Google has 83.82% percent of the global market, Yahoo has 5.58%, Baidu (a Chinese search engine) has 4.48% and Bing has 3.92%, with all other search engines in the extreme minority. To make it even worse,...
read moreAre You Getting Ripped Off for Your Website?
How much should you pay for a website? That’s a question many people would like to know–but unfortunately, is very hard to answer. It’s not as if web design is a licensed profession. There’s no state licensing exam, no college degree, no industry certification. You may point out certificates and degrees that may be related, but what I mean is there is no industry standard that clients look for, no such barrier to entry. I’m not saying this is a bad thing; but it does mean there are no standards for web design...
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