Here is the latest challange for Google/YouTube... This company has thousands of voters worldwide, to get YouTube videos popular – AS WELL AS getting Digg and StumbleUpon homepages
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/29/subvert-and-profit-unapologetically-targets-youtube/
so this another alternative in addition to this controversial one http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/22/the-secret-strategies-behind-many-viral-videos/
So just like expensive, tenacious Search engine optimization has altered to landscape of search engine results pages – social site promotion is altering the social bookmarking environment.
It is getting increasingly harder for the small, broke nobody to compete successfully.
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lately i have seen a burst in the traffic to my site through stumble
the problem is it's not regular, one fine day it would be some 1000 hits from stumble and then nothing for 3-4 days.
Some weird behavior... |
YouTube Calculates Ultimate Top 10 Videos of 2007
http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=b4NbOdeOGM4
Some of you told us you were looking for our roundup of the most buzzed about videos of ’07. Based on view counts, most shared, most discussed, top rated and general popularity.
BTW: It would be interesting to uncover how many of these made it withOUT promotional help |
http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/12/30/2007-blog-statistics/
It is not hard to understand WHY Digg and StumbleUpon are so lucrative
Shoemoney shares his blog stats for 2007 – he is #35 on the list of Technorati Top 100 popular blogs....
Look closely at his top referrer stats ......... surely this is no different from the other top bloggers http://www.shoemoney.com/gallery/d/16675-1/Traffic+Sources+Overview+-+Google+Analytics.jpg They each bring more traffic than the search engines except Google http://www.shoemoney.com/gallery/d/16669-1/Search+Engines+-+Google+Analytics.jpg
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http://searchengineland.com/080102-195756.php
Here is another example of the power of the social sites versus the search engines
Searchengienland shares its stats for 2007
compare the Social referrers to the Search Engines http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2056/2159553643_a7a3c727f0_o.jpg |