• Preparing for a day of client copywriting projects … five small projects to put the finishing touches on. #

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• Just returned from the first of Brunswick Industries’ Business Breakfasts … interesting talk by NAB economist: coal is our new black gold. #

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Wow, seen these latest search engine figures?

Despite “only” having 62 percent market share and an estimated 5.1 billion searches, that’s a 35.4 percent year-on-year increase for Google.

Keep in mind there’s 38 percent of searches going on elsewhere (mainly Yahoo and MSN/Live, with a combined estimate of 2.2 billion searches) — so while Google does have the lion’s share, there are other marketplaces worth considering.

I notice that in my stats too even for this website — while Google rules, Live is still sprinkled liberally through the stats and sending a good bit of traffic. Actually in this case, Web Wombat also figures quite well in the search engine referrers.

I’d still be making my website as Google-friendly as possible, given both their overall share and growth.

• Hmmm, rather happy day … client sells $29,000 business in 2 days via eBay with my style listing after his 10-day listing didn’t work! #
• @jonlyles partly to do with better use of photos & reason why it was for sale; also much better use of listing features for higher exposure. #
• @jonlyles yes, I will be making it a case study! I have the listings saved as pdfs, but that’s all so far. Will find auction IDs tomorrow… #
• @jonlyles yes you can — I’ll let you know when it’s ready. #

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