Top 10 UK Search Engines

When you check your listing on a browser which search engine do you use? A simple question but important because not all search engines are equal. According to the latest figures the top 10 UK Search Engines are:

1. Google UK
2. Yahoo UK
3. Ask Jeeves UK
4. Freeserve UK
5. Yell UK
6. Alta Vista UK
7. MSN UK
8. NTL World
9. Tiscali
10. Mirago

According to 2009 April 04 figures from Hitwise, the percentages of visitors looks like this:

1. www.google.com 72.68%
2. search.yahoo.com 16.29%
3. www.ask.com 3.96%
4. search.msn.com 3.52%
5. www.live.com 2.15%

These are stats for the USA but it is clear that Google has a similar market share here in the UK, in fact some UK stats suggest Google’s market share is closer to 85%.

So what does this mean for your website marketing and SEO campaigns?

1. Get listed on Google
2. Get listed on Google
3. Get listed on Google

Of course you don’t ignore the rest, especially Yahoo, but getting a good ranking on Google is a major priority.

And remember as well as the search engines listed above there are many specialist online directories and these could also be important to your business website.