While writing this article, I searched for “Facebook” on the American Google News site. That’s all – just “Facebook.” Yet four of the first six results came from Canada, and this illustrates a new trend: our neighbors to the north are becoming big fans of the social networking site.
Search Engines Build Blog Traffic, Not Popularity
Optimizing your blog for search will certainly increase the amount of search engine referrals that will come through, which sounds great on the surface to anyone looking to monetize that traffic. When it comes to retaining users and garnering popularity, however, search becomes less important.
Inbound traffic is the most commonly employed metric in determining the value of a website property. In calculating market share, analytics firms almost exclusively base their figures on the volume of traffic a site receives.
SEM – Beyond the Popularity Contest
In my last article I wrote about how search marketing is currently like a giant popularity contest. This begs the question of what’s going to come next as Google’s and the other engines’ algorithms keep evolving and take into account more and more data. What will this mean for search marketers?
SEM – The World’s Largest Popularity Contest
Currently, search engine marketing is best described by the phrase “popular.” This may change in the future, but right now, to rank in a competitive search term, you have to be popular; you know, like way back in high school where there was a division between the “cool kids” and everyone else.
Link Popularity On The New Web
Link building experts Andy Hagans and Aaron Wall say the world of link building has changed. But even though the rules have changed, as search engines become more effective at measuring trusted links, link building is ultimately still “the trump card for higher rankings.” And so, Andy and Aaron have compiled a new list of link building tips.
Web Social Networks’ Popularity Still Rising
Social networking sites are bigger than ever, according to new data from Nielsen//NetRatings. The ten largest sites, taken together, grew 47 percent in the past year, and they now reach 45 percent of active Internet users.
Internet Popularity: What Are People Reading
When surfing the net for stories, you never know what’s going to grab the public’s curiosity. Some stories are a sure bet, but others, like say puggles, make you scratch your head bit.
Link Popularity Explained
Search engines like Yahoo and Google store over ten billion web pages in their vast databases, so structuring and organizing this content is a major undertaking.
Link Popularity Reports
As link popularity is one of the most important tools you can adopt to raise your search ranking, you need to take apt steps, from time to time, to stand ahead your competitors.
Link Popularity Campaign
You need to create a campaign to be successful in every profession. To increase your link popularity you surely need to trigger a link popularity campaign.