Hitwise announced today that U.S. searches on Portugal star soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo accounted for one-fifth of all World Cup player searches last week in the United States. Among a portfolio of all World Cup players, Ronaldo received 19.16 percent of all U.S. searches. Ronaldo also was the top searched-for player in France, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand markets and number four in the United Kingdom…
Google’s Matt Cutts visited the SEOMoz team recently and helped answer some questions related to redirects, links and URL structure. Check out the entire interview below, here are some highlights:
In the last two posts on his blog, Retail Shaken Not Stirred, Kevin Ertell, ForeSee Results’ VP of Retail Strategy has written about how to achieve FAME in analysis & 11 ways humans kill good analysis. He talks about the roles executives, managers and other decisions makers play in the final quality of the analysis. He also gets into the reasons we often aren’t happy with the final outcome of analysis and looks at the fundamental disconnects in human relationships that can also impact getting good analysis…
Visitors to your website now can perform the same keyword research and keyword organization and discover the same keywords that the WordStream keyword tools provide, but they don’t have to leave your site to get them.To create custom versions of the WordStream keyword tools that you can embed on your own website, go to: http://www.wordstream.com/free-tool-widget-generator/ and follow the four-step process to obtain your embed code…
Last month Google announced an enhanced integration of Google Adwords reports inside of Google Analytics. This included access to 3 new reports and the ability to segment by 10 new dimensions. The new reports include: Day Parts Report, Destination URLs Report, and Placements Report.The video below provides a 3-minute tutorial on how to use the day parts, placements, and other AdWords reports in Google Analytics…
According to the latest report by eMarketer, on Facebook, the visitors who spend the most time on the site also spend the most dollars on online shopping, with an average of $67 in spending for the top 20% of visitors. Users who don’t use Facebook at all spent an average of only $27 during this time. Twitter users were a litte bit different in that the higher spend came from medium activity users…
Social Media monitoring company, Sysomos has just released a study in which they analyzed over a 100 million blogs and reported data on age, gender and location of bloggers. Below is a summary of their findings:
comScore today released a report on the fastest-growing mobile application and browser content categories based on data from its MobiLens service.In terms of penetration, 78 percent of smartphone users accessed their browser in April 2010, while 80 percent of smartphone users accessed applications. In comparison, just 19 percent of feature phone users accessed their browser, with 17 percent accessing applications…
With World Cup 2010 just over a week away, you can imagine the amount of content being consumed by soccer fans. The Hitwise UK blog backs this theory by discussing the rise of world cup related searches in the past few weeks, here are the top 10:1. world cup 2010 (4.98% of all UK Internet searches containing the phrase ‘world cup’)2. world cup (3.70%)3. world cup 2010 dates (3.28%)4. england world cup fixtures (1…
comScore released April 2010 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 178 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month. Recently launched in December 2009, Vevo (which includes viewing from the Vevo channel on YouTube) attracted 43.6 million viewers in April, representing a quarter of the U.S. online video audience.U.S. Internet users watched 30.3 billion videos in April, with Google Sites ranking as the top video property with 13…
I started in Internet Marketing in the early 2000s, however it wasn’t until May 2006 that I started Web Analytics World – not thinking that blogging would become a late night activity for me day after day. 4 years have gone by and as I write this 1500th post it’s nice to know that blogging is still fun for me. I have gained great relationships, knowledge and respect with regards to the importance of how analytics drives online (and now mobile) strategies…
If you have ever done an A/B testing on your website or landing page, you would know how exciting is the prospect of finding out which variation is going to perform best. It is almost like a football game where you can’t tell until the end which team is going to win. But that excitement soon cools off once you actually get to create and implement an A/B test: creating different pages, fiddling with HTML code, integrating JavaScript page tags…
Sponsored Post Buzzom BlogAds is a new tool in the online advertising market specifically targeted at bloggers. We find this tool interesting and have five reasons why it should be given a try.Right place, Right thing: One of the core principles of advertising is to advertise at the right place at the right time. Most online ad tools advertise products on blogs which makes little marketing sense because readers don’t often have buying intentions…
If you’re looking to get more insight into your visitors’ satisfaction and have no budget to throw at a full-blown solution, iPerception’s 4Q is a painless way to get started. 4Q also offers the ability to integrate with Google Analytics which helps combine the “What” with the “Why.” Below is a video showing a quick step by step on how to integrate these 2 free solutions.
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Last week I caught up with Maile Ohye, Senior Developer Programs Engineer at Google (on the Webmaster Tools team). Maile will be keynoting SES Toronto in a couple of weeks with a presentation titled: Inside Google Webmaster Central – I was able to get a sneak peak on some of the topics from that session in our chat. Read more below:[Manoj]: Can you talk a little bit about the benefits of the latest features, such as DNS record update and clicks/avg…
If you’re a publisher using Google AdSense on your website then you might be interested in reading the latest blog post from the AdSense blog which reveals Google’s revenue share model (AdSense for content and AdSense for search).
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Guest Post: Parker Trewin, Director of Marketing Communication – Genius.comThe success of social media in the B2C space is well documented, with standouts including Ford and @comcastcares, but B2B success is less well documentedRecent surveys by Forrester, SiriusDecisions and others indicate that up to 90 percent of buyers are using social media to help them in their purchasing decisions but a new report by Genius…
According to ReadWriteWeb, UrbanSpoon is in the process of testing a new iPad app called RezBook (starting in Seattle), whereby restaurants can manage their own reservations. Below are some screenshots of the new Urban Spoon iPad app.
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This past Tuesday, ClickTale introduced their new dashboard which includes a snapshot of six analytics modules, including:
I love the new social media infographic from Flow Town which shows the 50 most social companies in the world. The data is based on social media activity amongst employees at these organizations. Microsoft, Ebay, Amazon, Disney and Google round out the top 5. Microsoft employees also received highest scores across the Twitter specific data.
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If you visited Google Analytics in the last 24 hours you may have noticed a home page overhaul, now with access to the top support articles front and center, a product tour video and a real time feed from the Google Analytics Blog. Here is a summary of the updates:
According to comScore, social networking site Facebook.com led all online publishers during Q1 with 176 billion display ad impressions, representing 16.2 percent market share. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 132 billion impressions (12.1 percent), followed by Microsoft Sites with 60 billion impressions (5.5 percent) and Fox Interactive Media with 53 billion impressions (4.9 percent).Top 10 U.S. Online Display Ad* Publishers Q1 2010Total U…
If you live in the Los Angeles area you may interested to know that MySpace is looking for an SEO Manager. The details of the position are below – Apply Here.Responsibilities:
Below Abby Johnson of WebProNews interviews Sam Flemming of CIC on the topic of the different types of social network in China. China is one of the few major countries where Facebook doesn’t dominate, rather local Chinese social media sites are preferred.
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22% of all connections on Twitter are reciprocal is just one of the main findings from Korea’s Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Comparing that to Yahoo 360 and Flickr, Twitter’s 22% is basically half their numbers. ReadWriteWeb further summarizes that 80% of Twitter’s connections are one way relationships. Check out the presentation below for full details. View more presentations from Haewoon Kwak…
Being a great web developer is not something you just "fall" into. It takes time, perseverance and an ability to sift through information like crazy to find out exactly what you want to do it and what the best way to do it is. Software always changes, so being great in a sea of changes is about creating the changes and improving yourself, first.
We web developers learned from each other how to be web developers…
You may have seen Marketing Sherpa’s annual wisdom report: http://.surveygizmo.com/s/246930/marketing-wisdom-report-2010.We are trying to assemble an eBook version for Web Analytics and related topics (Mobile Analytics, Testing, Voice of Customer, Implementation, Online Intelligence, Social Media Analytics).So if you would like to participate and show-off your expertise, please reply to this message with:- A paragraph (or 2 or 3…
You're looking at my set of tools. The custom search engine helps me find the answers to questions more quickly. The RSS aggregator keeps me updated with industry news that matters. And, in the near future, I plan on documenting the major steps and considerations used in SEM as a check list (although it will also work well as a list of tutorials).
While I built (and am improving) the above tools for myself, it seemed like a waste to keep them to myself. After all, good will breeds good will, and perhaps you'll even help me find more great blogs to follow.
In the name of good karma, all my outgoing links on this site are followed. Treat others as you wish to be treated, right? Besides, I think the authors who we read daily deserve all the thanks (links) we can give.
I hope you find the SEM News feed and the free SEO search tool helpful.
- Brett at SEMNewsDaily.com
