And now, for something completely obvious: Google owns the lion’s share of US search traffic. But could the Goliath of Search be eclipsed by the currently David-sized combo of Bing and Yahoo… in as soon as the next 18 months? Experian’s Hitwise reports that Bing continues month over month to chip away at Google. Search agency Rosetta shows that Bing + Yahoo (Yahoo uses Bing to power its search) has a respectable 37% of retail search. If your SEO strategy has primarily Google in its sights, now may be the time to diversify. Gains aside, the race ahead is still steeply uphill
Read MoreAs consumers continue to flock to the internet, the Internet marketing industry continue to evolve. In a two way medium like the internet the traditional models of marketing are losing their efficacy and new types of marketing are gaining steam by providing value for consumers increasingly put off by intrusive marketing tactics. This infographic from Voltier Digital highlights the differences between the two kinds of marketing Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing.
Find out what’s hot and what’s not by checking out the spooky stats on our Halloween infographic from Webtrends, showing you which costumes and candy garnered the most buzz. The data used to create this infographic represents online mentions from October 1-24, 2011 and is an aggregation of Twitter, blogs, online news sites and other social media sources.
Its easy to dismiss tablet computers as a passing fad used only by hobbyists with time and money on their hands. But in reality tablets are sweeping the nation and in, many ways , totally re- inventing eCommerce. Here how the iPad has changed the way retailers think about the online shopping experience. A new infographic published by Monetate pinpoints a key finding: Conversion rates are higher for tablet buyers than desktop buyers.
Despite their widespread use or perhaps because of it performance reviews continue to draw considerable criticism from the workforce. Annual performance reviews: you either love ‘em or hate ‘em. Some companies get the formula right, developing a constructive review process that helps employees grow. The infographic below, compiled by the creators of social goal management tool WorkSimple, looks at the brief history of performance reviews and predicts a future where reviews go social.
New analysis from mobile data management startup Onavo, shared exclusively with Mashable, sheds some light on the differences between iPhone and Android users, at least when it comes to their mobile social networking behaviors. Onavo analyzed data from a representative sample of more than 100,000 mobile owners, and looked at more than 40 terabytes of anonymized mobile data over a 30-day period. The typical iPhone owner, for instance, can’t get enough of Facebook. In fact, 90% of iPhone-toting folks use the social app over mobile networks, and Facebook usage happens to account for 10% of all the mobile data iPhone users
Read MoreIf not for open web standards, you'd need a different web browser to access different web pages and as for mobile. Luckily, web standards like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, when properly used, allow us to read, shop, schmooze, dish, post, check in, and share everything from our kids' class pictures to our most deeply cherished beliefs?whether we're accessing the web via smartphone, tablet, or virtually any desktop browser. From 1962 to present (no, that's not a typo), Vitamin T and An Event Apart have pulled together A Brief History of Web Standards. This infographic has a lot of interesting factoids and
Read MoreTablet computers are one of the fastest growing new technologies ever introduced. Their portability and enhanced interface have spurred an immediate public following. At the same time, the news industry has embraced the platform sensing new possibilities for audience and revenue. Roughly a year and a half after the launch of the iPad, 11% of American report owning some brand of tablet device, and consuming news is a big part of what they do no these devices. via
You may have heard the stat that StumbleUpon drives more traffic referrals than any other social media site. So StumbleUpon wanted to shed some light on this by describing the lifecycle of a web page in StumbleUpon, especially how long you could expect the average web page to keep getting visitors. Please feel free to leave comments and questions.
BinarunSacha on 
saif akram on 
