Here are the top stories of 2012 written here in the past year which got the maximum eyeballs.
Top PageTraffic Posts of 2012:
Search Engines
New SEO Tools Give Developers and Websites Unparalleled Data to Help Drive Traffic
REDWOOD SHORES, CA–(October 17, 2012) – blekko, the search engine using human curation to eliminate spam from search results, announced today a new premium suite of SEO tools which provides developers with comprehensive and rich SEO data and important ranking metrics to help websites optimize and drive traffic.
The Internet’s revenue channels are firmly in hands of the search industry as the first half of 2012 report by Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC US reveals. The report says that in the first half of 2012, the internet ad revenues have continued to rise to a huge $17 Billion and of this amount nearly half of it: $8.1 Billion comes from spending on search industry. Last year, in 2011m, the revenue earned was 19% lesser than the $17 billion and had 46% of the search market.
Blekko has been loved till now as an excellent and free tool for backlinks research. But now it has transferred itself into the paid tool category quite like- Ahref, MajesticSEO and others. Presently you will have to pay a $99 monthly subscription to have access to the company’s SEO tools and related data. If you try to use the tool free, this is the message you will see:
A report by Linkdex shows that Geolocation plays a huge role in changing a site’s rankings in Google search for a particular keyword across different locations. The report says that 69% of times when a site finds place in the top 30 results on Google search for a specific location, it will not rank for the same search term on all other locations.
The Slashtag Search Engine-Blekko has upgraded their SEO data. This means that the crawler and indexer will now provide latest and fresher results to SEOs search for SEO data. The search engine has announced that after this update, their data will be more comprehensive too.
Search Engine Marketing Profession Organization, SEMPO, has announced its nominees for the Board of Directors for the 2012-2014 Board. Of the 38 highly respectable nominees, 13 will fill the seats of SEMPO Board of Directors.
The nominees are chosen on the basis of their standing, achievements and influence in the search industry. The top 13 Directors forming the 2012-2014 Board will be selected via electronic voting to be held from February 14 to February 22, 2012. The submission of votes is to be completed by February 22 at 5pm EDT.
Christmas is a couple of days away, and search engines are fused with the Christmas spirit too.
First up is Google, which has literally 'put up' Christmas decorations. Simply key in search terms christmas or merry christmas and you will see colorful decorations along the top bar.
On to Bing. The photo in the Bing home page is of a beautifully done up tree placed in a huge room with bright Christmas decorations.
Like every year, Google came up with a doodle to celebrate Halloween, 2011. The difference being, it's a video doodle.
The video features 6 Google employees, carving it's name out of 6 huge pumpkins. The video, after beginning with 6 people, see more joining in. Many of these people appear in costumes, there was a Santa and an Android Bot.
A survey conducted by About.com has identified the following three reasons behind why people do online searching-
- They want answers
- They want to be educated
- They want to be inspired.
Tracy Raiser, senior vice president for sales, About.com, explained the findings in the following way -
“These findings offer advertisers and marketers a better understanding and valuable insight into the way consumers search online. The Three Mindsets of Search study aims to improve the understanding of how consumers search. It’s a real opportunity for marketers to think about campaigns in a whole new light.”
A key significance of these findings is that they can provide a clue to marketers on how to connect more effectively with people doing Internet searching.
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