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According to a study on Website Analytics vs. Competitive Intelligence Metrics done by SEOMoz last October 2006 the best predictors of traffic to one's website are:
1. Number of Technorati Links (0.74)
2. SEOmoz Page Strength (0.60)
3. Number of Links to the Blog URL via Yahoo! Site Explorer (0.56)
4. Number of Links to the Domain via Yahoo! Site Explorer (0.54)
5. Bloglines Subscriptions (0.49)
6. Technorati Rank (0.49)
7. Alexa Rank (0.49)
8. Netcraft Rank (0.43)
9. Newsgator Subscribers (0.39)
10. Compete.com Rank (0.38)
11. Ranking.com Rank (0.36)
12. Google PageRank (0.21)
Results are based on visitor tracking data and other external metrics used from ...
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Alexa Internet started in 1996 with the "vision of Web navigation that is intelligent and constantly improving with the participation of its users." Right now Alexa has plenty of services offered including the Web Search Platform, which is still in Beta, the Alexa Web Information Service, Alexa Toolbar, their website, and other services that the usual users are not always aware of including their Webmaster Services and Data Services.
Though Alexa has plenty to offer, an SEO conscious blogger is probably familiar mostly (and only) with the Alexa Rank. It is after all the seventh determining ...
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As promised one of the most popular of the services that Alexa offers is the traffic details of each website. What the traffic details gives you is plenty of information by which you can base decisions on how to increase your site or blog's traffic. The traffic details include a short overview of the site, average review of the site (star-based), the site's Alexa Traffic Rank, graphical representation of the site's daily reach, traffic rank, and page views, plus user information such as geographical location and their preferred pages on the site.
The Traffic Rank ...
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As mentioned in the last post the SEOmoz Page Strength is a very wholistic way of determining your blog's ability to attract traffic. This is because it takes several very important factors into consideration. As a matter of fact it actually takes into factor the top determinants of a blog's traffic. So just what are the factors that contributes to your page strength?
The factors are:
1. The number of links pointing to your full URL.
2. The number of links pointing to your domain.
3. Your position at Google for the first four words of title tag on ...
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One way you can significantly help your blog is by using technorati tags. Technorati tags of course not only links your blog to Technorati, the ultimate web community for bloggers, but also gives you an alternative way for labelling or categorizing your entries. We have previously discussed how labels and categories can help your users but categorizing your posts using Technorati tags takes it one step further.
Remember my previous post on the Best Predictors of Traffic? Well there we found out that the number of technorati links actually influences traffic volume even more than your ...
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You might be thinking, what the heck does angelic things (halos?) have to do with search engine optimization techniques? Well, have you heard of the Halo Effect? It does not really pertain to celestial bodies but in fact has a very earthly application. According to the Wikipedia entry, the Halo Effect is ?cognitive bias in which the assessment of an individual quality serves to influence and bias the judgment of other qualities.? That helps, doesn't it? Put simply, the Halo Effect describes how a person can be thought to be good (or ...
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With the Internet functioning as another venue for all sorts of businesses, the competition on how to get noticed and how to attract as many customers are possible is getting tougher and tougher. Anyone remotely associated with online businesses is aware of how SEO is at the forefront of online business issues.
Recently, SEO has been getting some bad rap. It may deserved or undeserved, but that really shouldn?t concern you if you stick within what is called ethical SEO. Experts would say that this is the best way to get search engines to ...
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