Posts About ‘questions’

What Were the Burning Questions of May 2012?

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This month’s blog is all about questions. The Internet has revolutionised the way we find information but crucially it has also dramatically altered the way we ask questions. Nobody enjoys feeling ignorant – but the beauty of the search bar is that it will never judge you for the gaps in your knowledge! This means people are perfectly comfortable asking Google a question which they wouldn’t dare ask even their closest friends or family.

What this does is create a fascinating insight into what the population is really thinking. There were over 2.5 million unique questions of Who, What, Why, Where, When and How typed into search engines in the UK in May 2012, below are the ten most searched for. (more…)

Search Marketers Get Alerted Most Through Twitter, Then Facebook

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At State of Search we are working hard on improving the site to fit the needs of the people who visit the site. So every week we ask them a question on Facebook about how they like to read not just our site, but sites in general. That way we have an idea of what our readers like and how we should or should not approach them.

In our weekly Facebook question this week we looked at how people who are connected to State of Search (mostly SEO’s and marketers) tend to find specific posts on the web, how do they get alerted to the posts. The answer to this question was easy for most of the respondents: Twitter rules. (more…)