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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I&#8217;m always looking for tips on link building and am a fan of using directory links as part of the overall link building mix; usually somewhere around 3-5%. Directories are probably the oldest form of link and traffic building, dating back to Yahoo!, DMOZ, and Go.com&#8217;s directory efforts.  They are also still an important part of [...]
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John Scott gives a rundown on the history of link buying and then 10 rules on buying links intelligently. (Yes, I do realize this is a post made in May, but I&#8217;m playing a little bit of blog catch-up this week and feel that the post is of good value.) Google is still running link based [...]
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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 [...]
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As mentioned by DynamicWebPages.de, the latest PHP usage statistics have been released for November 2006.   Overall, the spread of PHP seems to have settled down this month to a more stable value. For this month, the number of domain using PHP came in at 19 million (19,404,533) and the number of IPs using PHP is at 1.3 million (1,319,743). This drop can be somewhat attributed to several hosts being made aware of the "expose_php" setting in their installations and turning it off for security reasons.   You can check out this month's numbers as well as how it relates to previous months (and years) in this graph.
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Last week's user revolt forces the editors at Digg.com to question whether paid contributors are an essential ingredient for success in social media. In Monkey Bites.
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Reciprocal Link Scams   Reciprocal link scams are on the rise. It is no secret that most search engines count the quantity and quality of incoming links to a website when deciding how to rank it. In fact some give weight to the ratio of incoming links versus outbound links. This ...
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Clicks and time they are a'changing The yardstick for how the popularity of websites is measured has changed, as analytics firms scramble to reflect how pages are now frequently updated piecemeal and "live" by the host, rather than loaded wholesale by users.â¦
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Search Engine Resubmission Myth  So the thinking goes, the more times you resubmit your site to the search engines, the better chance that you have of getting to the top for your keywords. I can&rsquo;t tell you how much it aggravates me when I hear about another searach engine optimization company ...
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Google Flagging Sites with Too Many Subdomains In a post last week about Robert Scoble visiting the Google Plex and the Windows Live Writer blogging tool, Matt Cutts lent a hint that Google is monitoring and flagging sites which launch too many subdomains at one time. Seems that the Live Windows team is using sub domains [...]
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Damien Seguy has posted the PHP statistics for this past month, August 2007:   Here are the PHP stats for August 2007. To learn about methodology, read la section phpversion. 27.1 millions servers hosted on 2.4 millions IP were surveyed during August, and 11.8 were used for stats : domaines without web sites, those unreachable, ISP, shared hosters or domain parkings were not considered.   Highlights this month include:   The start of the decline of PHP4 usage! PHP 5 break its progression record : +1,5% to 22% August 2007, best month to compile PHP   Check out the full stats here with the evolution stats here.
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Found in the search marketing forums: What Does it Take to Get to the Top?; How Does Punctuation Effect SEO?; PPC Issue with Google Analytics; and more.
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Daily Blog Tips has put together a list of 30 traffic generation ideas as compiled from 30 different bloggers.  Of course, you don&#8217;t actually have to be a blogger to take advantage of some of these ideas, such as participating in the comments of other blogs which are read within your industry, article distribution and [...]
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Ok, we&#8217;ve heard it before from Hitwise, MySpace.com is gathering more page views than Yahoo, but last time the report was centered around the home page. This newest data from ComScore, as reported by GigaOm&#8217;s Liz Gannes, is a little different. Here&#8217;s the breakdown: * November Yahoo Page Views Down 9% * comScore says MySpace #1 in Page [...]
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I'm starting to realize that my blog is a bit of a time machine.  For example I can create a blog entry to warn myself about something that WILL happen in the future.    My current NTP  blog entry is a good example.  I wrote this for myself as much as for the people who read my blog (or find me via Google).  I know for sure that NTP on Debian is going to bite me sometime in the future and I'm going to forget WHY.  Then I'm going to (of course) go to Google or my aggregator and search for NTP and then find my blog post.    I've done this about a dozen times now and its saved me a TON of time!
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Search Engines Fueling Online Music Retailers  Search engines are fueling the online hip-hop, rock, country and polka industries according to a new Hitwise study. 30.4 percent of U.S. visits to music retail Web sites in July 2004 resulted directly from search-engines and directories. According to a new report from Hitwise, an ...
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As any developer will tell you, putting a website out on the internet is only half of the equation. The other half is trying to figure out some of the visitors (and how many of them) coming to your site. That's where this new article from DevShed comes in.   If you have a website, especially one that sells products or services, it can be useful to track the visitors to your site. This article explains how to write a program that will do just that.   They offer a database-based suggestion for recording various pieces of visitor information, including: IP address, date/time of the visit, pages viewed, browser type, and the referring page. They give the database structure and the PHP code needed to push the data into it. They also include some simple analysis code/SQL to show the different habits of your visitors and place them into an easy-to-read dynamic HTML page.