When you talk about ice cream flavors, vanilla and chocolate are the top two, but vanilla
is number one by a lot.
The same goes for mobile phones, where Android and iOS are the top two, but Android accounts
for more than 85% of the market.
When it comes to web browsers, things are no different.
There's one big winner, Google Chrome, and a bunch that trail far behind.
The Brafton Agency has built a great report that talks more about Chrome's market share
along with a bunch of other very interesting stats.
Before we get into that though, I'm Mickey Mellen and this is A Brighter Web, episode
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Today, we'll talk more about marketing benchmarks, the top how-to searches on Google, lots of
new features in Google Maps, Facebook blocking ads from pages that promote fake news, and
much more.
Let's dig in.
The Brafton Agency recently examined data from 181 websites to generate some pretty
interesting stats.
As I mentioned at the top, Google Chrome is dominating with 91% of the market share of
browsers.
Some other things they came up with were that 75% of websites were using goals in Google
Analytics, so make sure you have that kind of thing set up to track when people submit
forms on the site and where they came from so you can work those backwards.
The average bounce rate among the sites was 58.18%, which seems to be about right.
We tend to see about 50% to 60% as normal.
In their case, though, they showed by business type and industry it varied from 53% to 68%.
The average session duration was 2 minutes and 17 seconds.
In total, 70% of traffic they saw was from desktop, 24% from mobile and 6% on tablet.
B2B was about 78% desktop, whereas B2C was only about 55% desktop.
We have linked the full benchmark study in our show notes so you can check it out and
see for yourself what they discovered.
There was another interesting study done showing the top how-to searches on Google.
The site, how-to-fix-a-toilet.com, with dashes between every word, has the details about
these searches, but it's interesting to see what some of the top ones were.
A few of the top ones included how to make pancakes, how to kiss, how to make money,
how to tie a tie, how to lose weight and how to make slime.
It's very interesting data, including popular times of year for some searches, such as how
to ask someone to prom, and historical data for other searches similar to slime for things
like how to make loom bands and how to do the cup song.
We have a link where you can explore the data for yourself in the show notes.
It's worth checking out to see what's in those how-to searches are and see if any match your
industry for things you'd be writing more about.
Google Maps is becoming an increasingly important area to focus on if you're a business with
a local focus, so here are a few things that has changed in the past week on Google Maps.
First, business listings can now upload video.
You've long been able to add photos, and you certainly should.
Now you can add video to your listings.
The Android Google Maps app added a Find Parking to help you find the nearest parking garage.
It's presumed that will be coming to the iPhone version as well pretty soon.
Google's done a big push to help students explore their college campus on Google Maps.
You've been able to explore it for years, of course, but there are some new features
including more details on buildings, expanded Street View imagery and encouragement to use
the search feature to find coffee shops and other local businesses of interest.
Again, it's important to have your business listed well and represented well in Google
Maps for things like this so you come up when people need what you have to offer.
Google seems to be playing around with a new local ad panel.
To See What's In Store, on the right side of the search results, where a local business
will have their info on top and then a search box below where people can search that store's
inventory directly from the search results and browse through it without actually visiting
their website.
This is a paid ad feature, so something you have to pay for once it rolls out more widely.
It's hard to find right now.
It's just rolling out in small pieces.
Searches including Best Buy seem to be the most likely to pull up this feature.
Still, a bit hit or miss, but something to keep an eye on, and if you're a store that
sells products, it's something you want to look into in the future once it rolls out
more widely.
A joke among marketers is that the best place you could hide a dead body would be on page
two of the search results.
No one ever goes there.
However, Google might be getting rid of page two, at least on mobile, pretty soon.
They're testing a version of the mobile search where instead of "Next" loading a next page,
you'll simply see a "See More Results" button at the bottom that loads more in via ajax
and keeps an infinite scroll going down the page.
It's just a test for now, and Google tests out lots of things that don't make it, but
on mobile, this seems to make sense.
There's no need to have people click "Next" and load a whole new page when you can see
more results and keep it going down to the bottom.
We'll keep an eye on that.
Won't really affect you too much.
Perhaps it'll get people browsing deeper into the listings if they're not having to go to
new pages, but we'll see how it goes.
Again, Google tests a lot of things.
This may or may not stick, but something to keep an eye on.
We've talked before how it's important to have your content organized in a way that
Google can really understand it so that things like Google Assistant can help showcase your
site, but Google's begun to push Google Assistant out to more and more devices and it's becoming
more and more important that you follow suit with that.
Google's announced that this is coming to more speakers, appliances and other devices.
The appliance angle's interesting.
You could tell Google to start vacuuming, if you have a Roomba or similar device, or
ask "Are my clothes clean?" if your washing machine is supported.
Some interesting implications of that.
Amazon Alexa already does some of this, so it's fun to watch Amazon and Google continue
to fight each other by adding more features to their devices that benefit all of us.
Facebook has announced that they're going to block ads from pages that share fake news.
There's a few reasons for this, some pretty obvious, but the issue Facebook sees is that
some pages have been using ads to build up their audience, then use that to promote fake
news, which isn't good for anyone.
Google's doing things to literally crack down and not allow those pages to advertise anymore.
Be sure anything you share on your Facebook is on the up and up.
Don't want to get reported for something there and potentially lose your ability to advertise.
Lastly, for our tip of the week is to start or join a Slack team.
At GreenMellen, we use Slack a ton.
There's just seven of us on the team, yet we've sent over 20,000 messages on Slack.
A few ideas for you to think about.
If you're part of a team, create a Slack team for all of you to use and catch up.
You could be a distributed team, you could be a local team or like us, where we're a
little bit of both.
Slack is a great place to bring everyone together, mostly for watercooler talk, but you can also
get some business done in there.
In addition to that, you could look to joining an existing team.
We have one for A Brighter Web you could check out.
Go to ABrighterWeb.com/slack to get info on that.
Or, you could find it for people that are fans of the Genesis framework, people that
use Beaver Builder, lots of other things there.
Lastly, look to join the official WordPress Slack team.
It's enormous with tens of thousands of users, but it's really neat especially in the core
channel because you can literally watch them discussing the launch of each new release
of WordPress and see the moment they are all ready to hit go.
It's fascinating to watch all the release leads in there as they talk about the moment
they're leading up to actually pushing the button to go live.
You can watch them talk about it there and then suddenly have updates on your site.
It's a neat way to stay in touch with what's going on.
So that's all we have for this week.
You can find me on Twitter at @MickMel, M-I-C-K-M-E-L, or learn lots more at GreenMellenMedia.com.
You can find out more about the podcast, including show notes and links, as well as video tutorials
and many other resources over at ABrighterWeb.com.
If you're in the Atlanta area, come check out our Meetup held three times each month.
If you're not in the Atlanta area, we post recaps on the site soon after each Meetup.
Either way, you can learn more about that at ABrighterWeb.com/meetup.
Thanks for listening.
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