Majority Uses 2 Word Phrases in Search Engines

OneStat.com today reported that most people use 2 word phrases in search engines. Of all the search phrases world wide, 30.09 percent of the people use 2 word phrases, 26.83 percent use 3 word phrases and 16.60 percent use 1 word phrase. More and more people use now 3, 4 and 5 keywords since the last measurement. The global usage of 2 word phrases has decreased with 2.49 percent from 32.58 percent to 30.09 percent since February 2004.

“Search engines like Google, MSN and Yahoo can drive a lot of traffic to a web site. It is important that a webmaster or SEO expert knows what kind of search phrases they have to use to drive more traffic to a site. Our software is the ultimate solution to measure search phrases and search phrases by search engine. Each webmaster or SEO expert can analyse what kind of search engines the visitors use to find a web site,” said Niels Brinkman, co-founder of OneStat.com.

The 7 most used word phrases in search engines on the web are:

July 2004 Februari 2004
1. 2 word phrases 30.09% 1. 2 word phrases 32.58% -2.49%
2. 3 word phrase 26.83% 2. 3 word phrase 25.61% 1.22%
3. 1 word phrases 16.60% 3. 1 word phrases 19.02% -2.42%
4. 4 word phrases 14.83% 4. 4 word phrases 12.83% 2.00%
5. 5 word phrases 6.76% 5. 5 word phrases 5.64% 1.12%
6. 6 word phrases 2.81% 6. 6 word phrases 2.32% 0.49%
7. 7 word phrases 1.13% 7. 7 word phrases 0.98% 0.15%

All numbers are an average of the last 2 months.