Earlier, I also asked whether should we have the meaning for the word Bing in the dictionary, like the one we already have for Google. After going through some statistics from comScore, looks like Bing is not even able to beat Yahoo! in the search engine wars.

Asia Pacific
According to a study by comScore in September 2009, 38.6 billion searches were conducted in the Asia Pacific region. An increase of 33% from the previous year. Google ranked as the top search destination with 44% shares, while Baidu has 21.3% market share, followed by Yahoo! 13.8%. Bing was not mentioned, but Microsoft sites share is less than 10%.

Google’s 44% equals to 17 billion searches and that is a lot of searches in a month. Google captured the majority share of searches in Malaysia with 71.1%. I don’t have the exact search phrases that were used, but the data is enough to show that more people are using search engines to get information. They are using Bing the least.

United States
November 2009′s data on US search engine rankings showed almost the same result.

Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in November with 65.6 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (17.5 percent), and Microsoft Sites (10.3 percent). Ask Network captured 3.8 percent of the search market, followed by AOL LLC with 2.8 percent.

Microsoft sites (Bing included), although at third place, only able to get 10% of the total searches, regardless whether it is in the US or in Asia Pacific.

If you are doing search engine optimization, you can drop Bing from your list of search engines to optimize, but if you are targeting China, you must consider Baidu. Google is still number two in China, and it will be that way for a while. Based on the experience working in a Chinese company, Chinese will always prefer Chinese products to others, unless Google could come out with something to temp them to change. Maybe with Android?

Concentrate your SEO to suits Google. Ignore the rest

Anyway, I have added more post to my Melayu Boleh blog and if you see the latest ones, most are related to animation:

• The Making of Geng Pengembaraan Bermula
• Silat Lagenda
• Hassan Abd Mutalib

OnPage Optimization:
Googge it for more info ok. This is partly done:

• Using bold, italics, header keys, etc
• Linking among posts, categories and tags
• I’ve even added the post title into the first paragraph.
• Using all in one SEO pack plugin.
• Using XML Sitemap plugin
• and other plugins

OffPage Optimization:

• Have also added links from my other blogs pointing to my Melayu Boleh.
• Have started to add bookmarks at social bookmarking sites.

Will start these soon:

• Commenting on DoFollow blogs
• Commenting on blogs with commentluv plugin installed
• Commenting on blogs with keywordluv plugin installed
• Commenting on blogs with top commentators plugin.
• Will also plead, beg for links from friends blogs

Is it possible to be in the first 2 pages of google.com.my search result in the next two weeks, and google.com a week after that? Hmmm … if everyone else is doing the same, then I would most probably stay at the same place

We didn’t make the challenge public nor set a specific time frame. Anyway, mine is currenlty at 737,479 while his is 1,575,379.

Traffic source has also started to come from outside Malaysia, about 60%. Compare this with my kids, looks like their blog is getting a bigger share

A higher Alexa Ranking does not mean that the traffic of that site is high. Alexa rank is measured by visits from users with the Alexa Toolbars installed.

Alexa’s traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users and data collected from other, diverse sources over a rolling 3 month period. A site’s ranking is based on a combined measure of reach and pageviews. Reach is determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day. Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site. However, multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are counted as a single pageview. The site with the highest combination of users and pageviews is ranked #1. More info at Alexa FAQ

Although there are tips being given to increase Alexa page ranking, you can refer to Dosh Dosh, I didn’t use any of them. The experiment I am doing at azwan.my is solely based on SEO for organic traffic.