For those who follow SEO practices in Russia, Google does not premeditate the actions to take in search engine optimization. Yandex is king and stays at the top with nearly 20% more users than Google.

Yandex – 54.4% of users
Google – 34.5% of users
Mail.ru – 7.4% of users
Rambler – 1.9% of users
Bing – 0.4% of users

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As always, there is a lot going on in search and SEO around the world.  Here are some of the highlights from the past week:

Baidu continues to beat forecasts. Chinese search engine Baidu keeps on growing, this time posting a first-quarter income growth of 25%.  David Temple at Multilingual Search has some more numbers: total [...]

A few weeks back I wrote on some important aspects of content optimization for your website: what your text actually contains, and how to maximize your keywords.  You content also depends on the usability of it and your website.  Here are some additional factors to consider when optimizing your content:
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Although cost-cutting measures are running rampant right now, European marketers seem determined to make the Internet work for them.  New numbers via eMarketer and the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA) show that online advertising spend in Europe looks to grow by double-digits in each of the next three years.  With 178 million Europeans online each [...]

Local search got a big boost this month when Google rolled out an international change: showing local results on non-local queries.  So now a search for ‘machine shops’ shows a local 10-pack for machine shops near me in Minneapolis:

Before this update, I would have had to search using “machine shops minneapolis” to get the local [...]