Auttomatic founder Matt Mullenwag was at WordCamp San Francisco on Saturday to deliver his "State of the Word" 2013 keynote speech. He mentioned that WordPress is now used by 18.9 percent of the We...
Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Robin Good's curator insight,
May 3, 2013 6:22 AM
If you keep investing time on optimizig your site for Google, or investing in link building efforts of all kinds I suggest you give a good read to this article. Wriiten by Awini Anburajan on Buzzfeed: "Search traffic to publishers has taken a dive in the last eight months, with traffic from Google dropping more than 30% from August 2012 through March 2013... ...While Google makes up the bulk of search traffic to publishers, traffic from all search engines has dropped by 20% in the same period. BuzzFeed tracked traffic referrals to over 200 publishers in the BuzzFeed Network, a group of sites that carry BuzzFeed's tracking code and include the Huffington Post, Daily Mail, NewsweekDailyBeast, Time, Sports Illustrated, Us Weekly, and Rolling Stone. Collectively the sites represent an audience of more than 300 million people globally. Of the three major search engines — Google, Yahoo and Bing — only Yahoo saw growth in this period. And check this: "In March, Facebook sent 1.5x more traffic than Google, the greatest difference we've ever measured between the platforms. At the same time, we've watched traffic from other social platforms — Twitter and Pinterest -—continue to grow an audience and drive traffic traffic to publishers." Are you ready for this? Insightful. Informative. Must-read. 8/10 Full article: http://www.buzzfeed.com/aswini/where-did-all-the-search-traffic-go
Joe Wise's curator insight,
May 13, 2013 9:15 PM
Need an SEO guru to verify or dismantle this argument... anyone? |
|