Here are some fun search engine and blogging statistics I pulled up.  I like doing this about once a year to see what is going on in the search space to see if there are any trends I’m missing.  Plus, it’s just really interesting data to look at.  Most comes from comscore, hitwise, and technorati.
enjoy…
Blogging [...]

If you read this blog every once in a while, you have probably heard of Hittail.com, a free service that allows you to discover “long tail” keywords, thus allowing you to optimize for those words, and drive more traffic to your site. I wrote about hittail back in November of last year when it [...]

Yet another post about search engine marketing… if you get tired of it please let me know!
Google releases huge updates so fast and so often, that they deserve proper attention. They are so funny about new releases… there is never any fanfare or press releases. They just keep on quietly making [...]

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What are some of the most popular cities on Craigslist??
The percentage represents percentage of traffic over the entire site, and the 2nd number is the amount of listings they had at the time of this post.
•    sfbay.craigslist.org - 14% - 305800
•    newyork.craigslist.org - 10% - 345715
•    losangeles.craigslist.org - 8% - 192174
•    seattle.craigslist.org - 4% - [...]

Just noticed today that Alexa has made a few minor changes in the way it displays it’s data.

Instead of calculating in terms of reach per million users as they did in the past… they now offer you a percentage ranking based on total internet users. It’s a subtle but effective change. For example, [...]

According to Nielson / NetRatings, here are the top search engines, and their percentage of total online searches:
Google - 50.8%
Yahoo - 23.6%
Windows Live - 8.4%
AOL Search - 6.1%
My Way - 2.4%
ASK - 2.1%
Earthlink Search 0.5%
Dogpile - 0.5%
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