I love those statistics that put the rate of something in a very specific time frame.
How many children are born every year, month, or day? What should my youth ministry budget look like next year and to spend it well, how much do I have to spend this semester or month? How much time do you invest in a blog a day, a month, or an individual post?
We now have a post on how frequently people contribute to several different social media networks.
Let me say that no two social networks are equal.
Remember when the Internet felt more like a new world to discover instead of a sterile, filtered place?
What would you discover on the web if the top 100, 1k, 10k or 1 million search results were removed?
Now you can find out!
Google’s processes and methods for assessing the likely usefulness of websites – the things that underpin its inclination to love a website or not – can be separated into three groups:
We have talked a lot about the newest social media platform on the block, Pinterest, and the accelerated growth that it has received. It has gained notoriety online for its unique take on social media that has attracted a whole new audience that has transformed blogging, e-business, and online networking. But for those that do have Pinterest connected to a website or blog, there is something amazing happening that has not been discussed much, sustained traffic.
We have written about Pinterest extensively for the past several weeks and really love what is becoming of the social media platform. Yet, even with all of the praise, people are still speculating if it is something that they should invest in.
We could answer that quickly: Yes!
For those that need a bit more of a push or data to come up with if they should join in, how about an EXTENSIVE infographic with every single number in its raw, untranslated form to give you the straight up facts?
Google always seems to be in the tech news somehow, whether it is there social network, Google+, or there latest products, like Google Play.
It is easy to criticize them for slow start ups that they may face when entering new markets or failures like Google Buzz, but we have to give them props for what they have always done well, creating the best search engine.
We make big fusses when Microsoft’s Bing increases or Pinterest does better than Google+, but rarely do we come back to note how big of a gap there is in the use of Google, their flagship.
Google has made Internet search a work of art.
Considering how fast the web is growing, they’ve had to tweak and change their search algorithms to keep up with the increase of data that must be sorted as you key-in your search term and expect Google to spit out good search results in fractions of a second.
Here’s an interesting look at Google’s algorithm changes from 1998 to 2012. You’ll want to click on the image to read this infographic, it’s jammed with info!
After reading through the infographic, below, I couldn’t help but wonder,
“Is the Internet making us impatient?”
It’s obvious and plain to see the importance of a fast loading web page. Forget about SEO and web crawlers for a moment and just take into consideration the web users themselves. The statistics are in, everything has been calculated and the results show:
Time is money.
See for yourself:
Maybe the biggest thing that Google+ lacks that Twitter, Facebook, and most other social networking sites have integrated are business accounts. But that all has changed with the Google+ Pages. Let me be quick to and bold to say, this is a game changer. Imagine the power of the whole Google cloud system of apps tightly integrated into Google+.
It is a business owner’s dream!
SEO Moz’s 2011 edition of their Search Engine Ranking Factors documents highlights several new factors Google has begun using in search ranking. Some of the big changes from recent years include increased importance in domain-level brand metrics, page-level social metrics and domain-level keyword usage, in addition to a higher focus on content and relevancy. Other factors, like anchor text in external links and exact keyword match domains have decreased in effectiveness while cloaking, over-optimization and being linked from pages penalized by Google produce a negative response.
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