How Many Site Hits? Depends Whoâs Counting
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Even though online advertising is growing fast, that growth is being stunted, industry executives say, because nobody can get the basic visitor counts straight.
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Aaron Wall at SEObook has put together a thought provoking post on current linking techniques, structure, and how Google reliance on trusted sources &#038; domains is in jeopardy as those resouces become more and more abused. Finding the Most Powerful Links Anything that has been greatly trusted has been abused. The difference between the current abuse and [...]
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Hitwise put together some data which shows the increase of Google traffic to Wikipedia over the past year and reveals that Google downstream traffic to Wikipedia is up 166% year over year. Here are some stats:  Hitwise data showed that for the week ending Feb 10, 2007, 70% of Wikipedia&#8217;s upstream visits came from search engines, with [...]
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dotMobi, the company tasked with managing the .mobi top-level domain name, announced Monday that over 400,000 registrations have been placed since the TLD launched in October 2006. In comparison, only 100,000 .com domains were registered in the first ten years.
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Want to show off the incoming links to your site? Yahoo Site Explorer has now come out with a badge for publishers &#038; bloggers to show the amount of incoming links as tracked by Yahoo Site Explorer. Yahoo is offering two different badge sizes and the option of posting incoming links to the entire site or [...]
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Tycho: It's "limited," but not that limited. There's fifteen hundred of them total, if you are interested. (CW)TB
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I&#8217;ve heard the warnings at conferences and especially in the Social Media Optimization field that spamming or multiple submissions to Digg and other social news sites could lead to the banning of that URL from future Digg listings. Seems that such a horrible fate was brought about on SearchBliss.com although they say that they were not [...]
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In order to increase the count of users of their sites, some Web publishers are automatically popping up articles, then counting the pop-up as a page view.
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It's a question that often prompts a boastful answer or a bashful one: How many sex partners have you had?
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InsiderPages Chooses FAST to Improve Site Search InsiderPages, which just had its Web 2.0 makeover, has chosen FAST to improve its site search. I also received comScore data with the press release, which shows the following metrics (a limited audience of local sites). comScore August uniques (000):  ServiceMagic &#8211; 2,233 InsiderPages &#8211; 1,150 Yelp &#8211; 529 Judysbook &#8211; 315 AngiesList &#8212; [...]
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One year ago, I stuck my resume up on Dice and Monster expecting to find a nice job as a system administrator. I wrote a decent resume, outlined my abilities and accomplishments and waited to see my cell phone light up with calls. Nothing happened. I went to both job boards and saw that I had a few hits. I seem to remember about four hits on each board for a total of eight hits. read more
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Interesting data  this morning (thanks Dan ) on weblogs:  "Blog readership shoots up 58% in 2004 6 million Americans get news and information fed to them through RSS aggregators But 62% of online Americans do not know what a blog is"  Read the PDF  for more stats (man I hate PDF).  "27% of internet users say they read blogs, a 58% jump from the 17% who told us they were blog readers in February. This means that by the end of 2004 32 million Americans were blog readers. Much of the attention to blogs focused on those that covered the recent political campaign and the media. And at least some of the overall growth in blog readership is attributable to political blogs. Some 9% of internet users ...
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Found in the search marketing forums: SEMPO In-House Salary Survey; Starting the SEO Process; Have I Messed Up My Ranking? and more.
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&quot;The State of Search Engine Safety,&quot; a recent study by McAfee&#39;s SiteAdvisor group, has some classic good news and bad news for Internet surfers. Using several automated techniques, the SiteAdvisor study determined that 4 percent of the query results offered by the major search engines lead to potentially dangerous Web sites, and the total for sponsored links is nearly twice as high at 7 percent.
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Jeremy posted a bit over a week ago at his ShoeMoney.com blog his answer to the question: &#8220;Are you a SEO or not? You say you are not yet sometimes you say you are? SEO FLIPFLOPER!&#8221; The answer might be confusing for some, but made me chuckle. He basically said that he is quite good at SEO and [...]
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YouTube Video &#038; Usage Facts There&#8217;s an interesting article in the WSJ (sub req&#8217;d) on YouTube, with some data and metrics, by Lee Gomes today: I did a scrape of YouTube a month ago and found there were 5.1 million videos. By Sunday, the end of another scrape, that number had grown by about 20% to 6.1 [...]
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Yahoo! Answers is celebrating its 1st birthday today with a party and the release of some interesting survey data which shows why Q&#038;A type services are growing online and why Yahoo! Answers has set the mold in this area. In its first year,Yahoo! Answers has more than 16.6 million users and has amassed 60 million answers [...]