YouTube and Hulu Record All-Time Highs in Video Views

Top 10 Video Content Properties by Videos Viewed

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released September 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that more than 168 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month. Online video viewing continued to reach record levels in September with nearly 26 billion videos viewed during the month, as Google Sites accounted for more than 40 percent of videos viewed online by Americans.

Google Sites continued to rank as the top U.S. video property in September as it delivered nearly 10.5 million videos viewed, or 40 percent of all videos viewed online. YouTube.com accounted for 99 percent of all videos viewed at the Google Sites property. Hulu ranked second with 583 million (2.2 percent) followed by Fox Interactive Media with 547 million videos viewed (2.1 percent) and Viacom Digital with 513 million (2.0 percent).

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Guaranteed Listing in DMOZ!

DMOZ Friends

Found a post on one of the outsourcing job sites (paraphrased):

I have Pagerank 3 e-commerce site. I’m in the adult business. I need a listing in the DMOZ. I’ll pay once it’s verified, not just a submission. Please bid only if you can GUARANTEE the listing. I will not pay until it’s out there & verified.

My question is this: “are you smokin’ crack, or just generally messed up”? Either way, here are some reasons why you possibly are:

1. DMOZ is a highly valued site in the eyes of search engines (Google), and will not accept crap. Hey, if you had a PR (pagerank) of 7, and a couple more adult sites, you might get accepted!
2. DMOZ absolutely does not guarantee anything, and if you are on a site and you get somebody to help you, forget it – they’re scammin’ ‘ya!
3. DMOZ takes a very long time (weeks, months, years?) to get an entry validated. The guys/gals over there are busy fighting spammers like you, so just stop it.

And, if you are a legit outfit, a solid website with tons of good, useful content, and not a mirror of thousands of other websites, and — you have committed to succeeding online, well then – maybe you have a chance – but don’t expect much. Instead, go elsewhere, and build relevant (themed) links. Don’t worry about Pagerank (at all!), and start by writing a quality article and manually distribute to a few, top article directories.

Tired Of Having To Hear Another Pitch About the Future of The Web (Google)?

You should not have to listen or read about any more projections about the future from anybody else but the source, the guys who actually “own” the Internet. In a recent interview, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt covers the topic, and you might want to take notice. He was interviewed by Whit Andrews and Hung LeHong from Gartner. There were 5000 CIOs and IT Directors at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2009.

The “real-time search” discussion is of top priority for Google, and add all the social networks and traffic, you can see why. John Battelle, for example, refers to this as the new “referrer economy”. Traffic will come from search and referrers from these networks, and Google wants to be right smack middle of it.

Listen to this extract of the interview. Do you think he’s right? Where do you think we’ll be in 5 years? SEO for one, is not dead, and never will be. Why? – because content and links will always rule.

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New: Proof of Google’s Evil Empire?

“Behind this lovely video hides an evil monster, a multi-billion spider which controls the Internet.”

Do you agree with that? (A response from a video visitor on YouTube).

There’s no doubting a tremendous amount of smart people, innovation, science and new platform creation (like the real money maker, Adwords) in this video on Google’s History. Amazing job. Google Operating System calls out an error, but can you find it?

Quick SEO Tip: Duplicate Content Issues On Your Website?

Duplicate content can be considered the slow death to rankings and traffic drops.

Here is a quick way to check it, and to start working on fixes for it.

We know that the TITLE (HTML) code is extremely important to search engines. Tweaking and updating this tag alone will change, and sometimes drastically, your quality indicator with search engines: spidering, indexation, ranking, traffic (not conversion, that’s a different topic).

Define a document title. Required in every HTML and XHTML document. User agents may use the title in different ways. For example:

* Web browsers usually display it in a window’s title bar when the window is open, and (where applicable) in the task bar when the window is minimized.
* It may become the default filename when saving the page.
* Search engines’ web crawlers may pay particular attention to the words used in the title.

The title element must not contain other elements, only text. Only one title element is permitted in a document.
TITLE existed in HTML Tags, and was standardised in HTML 2.0; still current.

So, go to Google, and type into search box: “site:http://www.yourdomainhere.com” and check the resulting listings. Page through at the bottom of the page, and check to see if you have unique TITLEs (they will show up in blue hyperlink text in Google). For the ones that you have an issue with, well – go back and fix them. We see problems in this area – all the time!

As always, make sure you are tracking the changes, so you can see the impact. Understand first, then apply. This is the first step. Contact your SEO provider to give you more assistance.

What’s Up With the Sergey Brin’s Freaky Five Toe Shoes?

Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at Web 2.0, where he spent 17 minutes talking with John Battelle about a number of topics. But, the most interesting was the story and question about Sergey’s Shoes.

Well they actually exist:

It’s actually camping apparel, and you can get it here – http://www.campist.com/archives/camping-apparel.html

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Does Your PC Work With Windows 7?

Will Windows 7 Work on My Machine?

Much ado about the new Windows 7 / Seven. Will your old PC with XP or Vista handle the upgrade? Easy to find out, just download the Windows 7 Advisor.

Can my PC run Windows 7? Find out! (Upgrade Advisor)

Why Should You Get a “Google” Blog?

Simple. Watch this SEO / Blog video from Google directly. Have you considered a blog?

What do you think?

The World’s Biggest SEO Resource List

Well, probably unofficially so, but -  if you need a great place to start for SEO blogs, you need to look at what Guy Kawasaki and his team have put together.

It covers many more things than just SEO (search engine optimization).

Here’s are some good websites and blogs to start looking at:

http://seo.alltop.com/

http://social-media.alltop.com/

Enjoy the weekend guys!