Traffic Flow SEO

So, it may not be often (or as bad as a bad tattoo), but Google sometimes does not provide the results that are needed or wanted. So, where do people turn to get their answers? A great new study by Chitika entitled, "Googlers’ Backup Plan – Ask.com?" gives us some insights. Look at the chart below:


Amazingly enough, when Google is not the answer over 30% of people go to Ask.com. While that is not as much as Yahoo with almost 50%, it does blow away Bing with around 17% (and since AOL is basically just Google repackaged in AOL even 4% is pretty incredible).

So, what does this tell us? Is there more opportunity or value in getting the initial search or is it more valuable to get secondary searches? Maybe Ask.com is more valuable then we previously thought. This research (and others from Chitika on Ask.com) open up data sets that have been ignored or missed before and we look forward to more of this type of information to better plan our search marketing campaigns.

Many people ask me which posts have been the most popular or which posts bring in the most traffic to the site. So, I decided to outline the top 5 for you in order of overall traffic to the site:

#1 from March of 2008
Add URL - Free Search Engine Submission Links
- Hands down the most visited web page on the blog as people love to submit to the search engines and they love to do it for FREE...:-)

#2 from July of 2009
Seeing Redz - The Story of Click Fraud and RedZee
- RedZ or RedZee, whatever they are calling themselves today are the scam that just keeps giving (and taking from customers). This and its follow-up blog post - The Continuing Scam That is RedZ (formerly known as RedZee) from November of 2009, continue to be the forum for communications about the scam and those that have fought back.

#3 from January 2009
FREE Article Rewriter and Spinning Tool Roundup
- Free SEO tools are always great and article spinning is popular within some of the SEO communities. Spin away my friends with these free resources.

#4 from December 2009
The 10 Best FREE Keyword Research Tools on the Internet!
- Come on, who does not love a top 10 list and who within the search marketing community does not use keyword research tools on a daily basis? This post was a match made in heaven, at least some people's heaven.

#5 from January 2009
To Ping or Not to Ping, That is Not the Question
- With our fun play on words how could you not love this post? Come on, really. When it comes to pinging there are those that love to ping and those that could care less, but those of you that care, made this one of the top posts on the blog and rounded out our top 5 posts ever!

Now that we have shown your our top 5 based on website traffic, we would love to hear what you liked and/or disliked over the last 2+ years. Please leave us feedback by leaving a comment even if you do so anonymously as all are appreciated. Thanks in advance and stay tuned for more fun, helpful and interesting posts to come!

I am always looking for a great and clean (and accurate) way to show website SEO/Social media analytics and Rank Checker just happens to do that in a very aesthetically pleasing format.

Currently, what it shows is this:
- Domain Age
- Domain Name
- Alexa Ranking
- Alexa Backlinks
- AlltheWeb Backlinks
- AltaVista Backlinks
- Google PageRank (PR)
- Google Backlinks
- Google Bot Last Visit
- Google Indexed Pages
- Yahoo Indexed Pages
- Yahoo Backlinks
- Yahoo Directory Listing(s)
- DMOZ (The Open Directory) Listing(s)
- Bing Indexed Pages
- Ask.com Indexed Pages
- Digg Links
- Delicious Links

Check it out for FREE at - Rank Checker

Surfing around looking for the latest and greatest webmaster/SEO/SEM/social media tools I happened to find Twitalyzer, my new favorite Twitter analytics.

Basically, the service offer overs 200+ reports for those who create accounts, but you can also see a lot without ever creating an account including:
- The largest influencer on a subject
- There associated 'Impact Score'
- There 'Influencer Type'
- There location (if available)

Also, just for fun, the site list the top 10 Twitter Influencers across everything here - Twitter Top Influencers List
(What I love is that at this point in time, Jesus is listed as number 2 and Snoop Dogg is number 7 - kinda tells you a lot)

Check it out today for free at - Twitalyzer

As I have been hard at work on The Search Engine Network I am eta testing some new features on Extreme Search Zero. The one I would love for you to check out and provide any feedback on is the new 'Hot Searches' scrolling bar (found right below the search bar). It shows the top 100 searches based on search volume going through the entire network of 10 search engines.

Check it out now at - Extreme Search Zero

I love good, free SEO tools that actually work as they should. So, while surfing around I found a great new set from Easy SEO Tracking. The tools include:

- Google SEO Recommendations Tool
Description from website - This tool provides you with an information on what operations you need to perform in order to beat your SERPs competitor.

- Google SERP Checker
Description from website - SEO Tool that allows you to check your SERP in Google (SERPs).

- Niche Analysis Tool
No Description from website - Basically you type in a keyword and the tool will provide details on the top 10 search results (SERPS) including; PageRank (PR), number of backlinks, keywords in URL, keywords in title tag, estimated unique visitors per month (pulling COMPETE data). You can also analyze all the backlinks to any of the websites listed.

- Crawler Simulation
Description for website - Find out how Google 'sees' your site when it is indexed.

It is fun and its free, so check it out today at - Easy SEO Tracking

I was sad to see it go, but now you can get your Google Pac-Man game on AGAIN - Google Pac-Man