comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a report on Chileans' use of the Web during the December 2009 presidential election. The study showed that the election services website, Servel.cl, attracted nearly 1 million unique visitors from home and work locations in December as Chileans prepared for the election.

Too many SEO's and marketers worry about getting that #1 ranking in Google for their primary keyword/phrase.  Of course, if that query is being highly searched and you rank first, you are going to receive some good traffic.   However, it may take an enormous amount of effort to achieve those rankings.  It may be worth your time to try and gain traffic from other sources. By applying the long-tail concept to driving website traffic,

Thanks to the Olympics, hockey sticks are easy to see this time of year, showing up during the actual games, on morning shows, and on talk shows. One's sort of shown up in a graph of Twitter's growth, too, as the number of tweets per day has been increasing at an impressive rate. Kevin Weil, a member of the Twitter analytics team, explained late yesterday on the site's official blog that the following stats do not include tweets from spam accounts. Also,

If you're like the majority of writers out there, you're a self-doubting bundle of neuroses, determined to believe that your writing will never be good enough. That's the life of the tortured, misunderstood writer, right? What's that? You think you're pretty good at writing and actually like some of your own work? Don't worry, it's just a blip.

Previously, I have already shared some tools that can extract key words and phrases from a web page and analyze its prominence. SEJ tools have a somewhat improved version of such a utility that can analyze the page copy, identify most prominent phrases, analyze how relevant they are to the page content and define the type of each one. Let's briefly see it in action: 1. Provide the full URL of a web page you want to analyze. 2.

Personalised search is Google's latest tactic of boosting rankings for domains that users have shown they are more likely to visit based upon their search history. It can be disabled, but when it's on by default, search (and click-through) history is stored in a 180 day cookie meaning personalised search comes into play only on that browser and machine you are using; the information in the cookie cannot be passed between multiple browsers/machines.

A few weeks ago, I posted about the seven characteristics of highly effective online video . Taking this theme a little further, I decided to branch out into the blogosphere, but using the number seven this time around was a tad too limiting. There are at least ten characteristics off the top of my head that make blogs and bloggers successful. These characteristics give the blogs mentioned below fame, fortune, and loyal followings. Want to build your blog and following?

[Last week, we shared some web analytics basics for small businesses or web site owners new to tracking website visitor data. Building on that, this post explores what you should do next to report that data.] It's an exciting time to be a small business owner or communications professional. Why? We've never had more data and metrics at our fingertips. Actually, we flew past merely having data to having real-time data. Surprisingly some don't initially like web metrics.

Posted by randfish Last week, while in London, I received an email from Paul Graham , whom I've long admired, possibly even idolized a bit. He asked if I was available to come speak at a YCombinator SEO event in Mountain View. Tonight, I presented at that evented and thought I'd share my experiences, recommendations and yes, my presentation. Not everything that was discussed is public, in fact, much of it is "classified" at YC's request. However,

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