Posts in Ranking and Statistics

By Zack Levine, Posted in Ranking and Statistics

Today, LinkedIn reported its first earnings as a public company. The results, by any measure, are impressive. LinkedIn beat all Wall Street estimates by generating $121 million in revenue and $4.5 million in income in Q2, its first as a public company. Its revenue jumped 120% from Q2 2010. The social network also reported $0.04 earnings per share, quadrupling Wall Street's estimate of $0.01 earnings per share. LinkedIn released statistics on its website and social network as well. It reported a 61% new me... read more.

• August 05, 2011
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By Jennifer Gonzalez, Posted in Ranking and Statistics

Spending time and money on building a website will be insignificant if the website is not promoted. In simple terms, this is very much like creating invitations to a party and never putting them in the mail. How will people know about the party, or how would they attend for that matter? To get traffic into and display your new website, you need to let people know it exists. I have compiled a list of things that you as a business owner can do to lure traffic into your website.1. Put your website URL in a... read more.

• March 22, 2010
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in Ranking and Statistics

For the fifth month in a row, Hudson Horizons has been named the Best Web Development Company for August 2009 by recognized industry experts, topseos.comI invite you to check out the top ten Web Development companies ranked by topseos.com for this month, and take a peek below at the official write-up capturing this proud award!In recognition of outstanding professional services, Hudson Horizons was named this month's number one Web Development Company by topseos.com, the leading independent authority on Int... read more.

• August 17, 2009
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in Ranking and Statistics

On Tusday, Mike Sachoff shared some great tips on WebProNews.com on how to optimize your online videos.As you may know, SES San Jose is going on this week out on the west coast; the tips Sachoff shared in his post came from the SES session "The Next Wave for Online Video." Speakers shared strategies and advice for optimizing videos for popular services such as YouTube and Hulu.But unlike traditional video optimization tips which focus heavily on optimizing for search, these tips incorporate flourishing elem... read more.

• August 12, 2009
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in Ranking and Statistics

If sharing really is caring, then Facebook cares a heck of a lot.On Monday, Adam Ostrow reported on Mashable tech blog that lead social networking website, Facebook.com, is the service through which people are most likely to share content.Ostrow made a great point about the various ways to gauge overall popularity with something as intangible as a free online service (i.e.: a social network). Sure, you can measure site traffic-but it's also worthwhile to consider the actual degree of social activity, namely... read more.

• July 20, 2009
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in Ranking and Statistics

Last week, the tweet heard ‘round the world (one of them, at least) was about how Bing, Microsoft's recent dive into the search engine market (and dare I say recent stab at Google), surpassed Yahoo! as the number two search engine both nationally and worldwide. It was pretty big news, considering Yahoo! has been struggling to reclaim it's popularity for months, if not years, and Bing has been live a whopping seven days (when the figures came back).Literally as I was posting an article last Friday abou... read more.

• June 09, 2009
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in Ranking and Statistics

On Tuesday, Nick Mihailovski and the Google Analytics API Team posted in the official Google Analytics blog that the search company has launched a "widely anticipated" new feature - you guessed it - a Google Analytics API.Now open to public testing is the new Google Analytics Data Export API beta - developers and Analytics users in general can extend the platform in "new and creative ways," according to Mihailovski.Well - first thing's first. How does the Google Analytics Data Export API work?"The Data Expo... read more.

• April 23, 2009
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in Ranking and Statistics

On Tuesday, Jason Lee Miller reported with webpronews.com that leading search engine Google is preparing to revamp its algorithm.What does this mean for Google search rankings many of us have come to take as gospel?Hopefully, it means we'll soon see more reputable results and less spam on the top of Google SERPs!Miller explained that Google is taking steps to restructure its search algorithm in an effort to "combat the spate of links leading to malicious web pages" that have slinked their way up the SERPs,... read more.

• April 21, 2009
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in Ranking and Statistics

This week, there was more to look forward to than the hearts and hugs of Valentine 's Day (or for some of you, the murderous movie marathons of Friday the 13th...) This week, Santa Clara, CA hosted the renowned search marketing expo SMX. SMX is known for hosting interesting, informative conferences about new ways people can enhance their websites and company campaigns. Over at webpronews.com, Chris Crum and other writers have been doing a great job bringing coverage from SMX to the web for everyone to ben... read more.

• February 13, 2009
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By Lauren Litwinka, Posted in Ranking and Statistics

On Wednesday, Michael Arrington reported with TechCrunch that Google’s latest feature, Search Wiki, will most likely be able to be “turned off” in the near future.Arrington’s brief but ground-breaking post came after he spoke with Google’s Vice President of Search Product and User Experience, Marissa Mayer, at the Le Web conference in Paris.After explaining his discontent with Google’s recently released feature, Search Wiki, the ball seemed to be in Mayer’s court to... read more.

• December 23, 2008
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