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At last…

The hangover cure has come about as of yesterday for (some of) us web site owners / seo and webmasters (in general)

Yep.. The loss of xmas site traffic is on its way back…

Please note this is a hangover cure for the site(s) I monitor but w00t.. Its good to see the traffic and $$$$ coming back…

Sadly I haven’t got any stats on the proportion sites xmas related vs not…

Well…. My experiences so far with adding xmas sections to site especially UK targeted is that no one seems to be surfing in the subject area I cover, pre xmas oh yes but during nop.. I’ve read reports that on xmas day and boxing day that “some” sites have/had massive traffic manily with shopping bargins and kids stuff…

hmm..

Anyway… All the best for the new year and hope everyones traffic grows : )

All over the news today and over the 2-3months is the fact that the biggest growing internet users are OLD…

The grey pound £££

All over the bbc today is a new social networking site for the oldies … http://www2.saga.co.uk/sagazone/

Saga is massive in the uk offering insurance, holiday’s etc… all designed for the grey generation!..

This is going to be a newplace to promote sites

I just need a name now

Just over 2 months ago I launched a new site…

I already have quite a few sites in that niche

One of the older sites is a forum with some 6,000+ members (about 100 aday a “really” active)

Anyway.. 2 months ago I started my 3rd social book marking site… The first 2 weeks hit the viral seen big time

Its 2 months on and google is only #3 even with the site ranking well already… You can guess what no1 ? Another social site.. YEP SU!!!

Anyway anyone launching a new site should waiting for ranking’s and just build links like the old days… Get viral… This is nothing new but I thought I’d post my stats after 2 months of life:

Referring Sites (76.69%)
Direct Traffic (12.74%)
Search Engines (10.57%)

The best thing that got this going was a competition… with over 4,000 backlinks almost all deep and now added by myself is an interesting site to watch!

This is one odd idea…

Basically the top google keyword news trends have been prints on to cushions …

Why ?

hmmm.. don’t know..

fantastic and alarming at the same time!
The top 10 google searches of 2006
each cushion is signed and numbered from an edition of 250

Wonder who would buy these ??

Buy them here

Each year the traffic drops in many theme’s and this year is no exception..

Summer 2007 in the uk has had massive effects on traffic levels due to the following: (imho)

• The rain
  This is a 50/50 as hot sunny days in the uk seem to send more traffic but with the flooding 1,000’s of people have no access to water let alone the net..
• Harry Potter…
  omg the affect on non kids/book/harry potter sites was pretty big in the last week or two.. Not only the book but the film double trouble..
• Forecast..
  Now I’ve mentioned rain but so many UK’ers that would holiday in the uk have been going aboard… Since the floods many holidays have gone up in price and move Hol’s have been sold compared with last yeh…

Basically the niche’s I work in are not weather,harry potter,forecasting, flooding, kids or holidays… Of course all these theme’s “should” of seen a increase and  not a loss..

The title of the post says it all..

Anyway.. some guy/girl has posted on DP the stats of all the listed site in dmoz as of 2 month ago and ran a report to return the PR..

So this is intersting because the site listed in dmoz are of course manually checked and must be “good” lol..

PR   number of sites 

0     59581
1     64297
2     196614
3     436085
4     463071
5     227345
6     76438
7     16916
8     2871
9     259
10    26

pretty cool info

comments etc.. here:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=244720

Well it seem like another PR update…

 odd…

 I seeing an update on this blog of no deep links up to december ? ..

 This update isn’t imho making sense on the site so i’m not going to bother commenting on the flow here..

Other sites have had a PR update too.. some up some down .. some odd… (most odd) and some to be expected..

This update imho looks like a freshness PR bonus.. (fresh link are counting a lot)

What else…

Well …

Google bombing algo change…

The likes of “lair” (was tony bliar at no1 ) and “miserable failure” (was bush at no1) no longer at the top!!!

matt cutts has posted regarding this to confirm that this will only effect bombed sites and not and overall algo change..

Serps are moving none stop and as matt said which I post about just over a week ago that the data refresh is set to 1-2 days…

Watching the serps is crazy..

More to come tomorrow..

I Friend of mine is a bit thin on top.. He’s not a seo but a designer @ hoffi - bilingual design

Check out the one on the middle of the page far right .. I’m sure the “after” is a different person 

hair-replacement.org.uk/

Bit of fun for you..

 This site was submitted to me 5 days ago and its 100% worth a blog..

selectronicsxpress.net/

Need I say more

 Enjoy

Just read this great post started by tedster over at wmw forums

Here a few quote from what he’s writen in regards to missconceptions (and a drinking quote from George Orwell)

1. Page Rank is not Ranking

2. Site has no technical definition

3. Page has no technical definition

Really like this one.. Such a bad habit (I always say tag tut tut )

4. alt is an attribute, and not a tag

5. title is either an attribute or an element

And so on …

 Bit of fun on a Monday morning ..

Read the rest here:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3208794.htm