The following is a list of the webs most SEO’d sites. Taken from AOL’s search data. The data sample is from 365422 users that did a search and actually went to a site. As you can see the top websites are SEO’d beyond belief. This is a count of UNIQUE users going to a destination site over 3 months. If someone went to google.com 50 times they are only counted once.
The data brings up several questions, like is myspace REALLY growing organically? People are hitting profiles.myspace.com, music.myspace.com because they infest/mass spammed the search engines. No other social network even shows up in the data in any meaningful way. In 3 months 19321/365422 or 5.3% users landed on myspace because google indexed them so well. We can conclude that 5.3% of all users in the united states using Google.com are clicking through to myspace every 3 months. Google.com powers AOL.com
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amazon.com 35953
mapquest.com 33165
imdb.com 26492
myspace.com 24483
yahoo.com 23361
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tv.com 9183
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August 7, 2006 at 7:57 am |
Lots of ppl use a search box to find a page they already know exists. They mightn’t have bookmarked it, so a search will find it pretty quickly. Perhaps even Google is a better way for one MySpace user to find another MySpace user, regardless of all the crazy linking between profiles.
This is similar to blogs – if I trackback to your blog from my blog about an article, then the next time I want to find your article I’ll probably still use a search engine to find it rather that go to my blog site first, then use its search engine to find my old article and then find the link to your article within the text.
Trying to find someone’s Myspace page again after visiting it once and vaguely remembering a few things about the person, I’d probably use Google to find them instead of repeating the “organic” wandering path of following Myspace links.
Of the 5% of clicks through to MySpace from Google, how many are people returning to a page they found “organically” without Google? In the data, such behaviour would show up as: one unique click for MySpace from MySpace and one unique click for MySpace from Google, in no particular order in the data.
That is, of the 5% clicks from Google to Myspace, how many are SEO driven and how many are from ppl lost in a sea of link profiles?
August 7, 2006 at 8:21 am |
That kind of searching would clearly be visible in the query data. Its pretty hard to bring up a specific myspace profile page when doing a search. Here are some examples that brought users to profiles.myspace.com. I’d say about 20% of the searches are for peoples names that end up at profiles.myspace.com
new xis on the psp
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http://www.rebelde.tv
http://www.legends socal.com
rumors of pumkin of flavor flav show has a myspace
astrologly
lyris fallout boy sugar were going down
kool kids klub.com
dragonfly paintings
dominacion
sanctionedx.com
flavor of love hottie bio
what’s up.com’
susquenita cheerleading
flyleaf im so sick lyrics
August 7, 2006 at 10:00 am |
Ok so 80% of 5% = 4% of search results are guiding ppl to myspace pages for the first time. I guess the point that your making is that this is a large enough number to suggest SEO involvement.
But do profile pages naturally appear at the top of search results (and hence get clicked on) because of the massive interlinking of pages and the heavy weighting of .myspace.com domain?
Sorry, I don’t know enough about the techniques and motivations of SEO to understand your derived assumption about SEO involvement in traffic to myspace.
What I do know is that every myspace page I’ve ever visited was so ugly and incomprehensible that I quickly left.
August 7, 2006 at 12:16 pm |
I have tried to like MySpace, I really have, but the vast majority of the users of that site just cannot design pages. They are so ugly, and the site is so hard to search for specific profiles, that I avoid it almost entirely.
That said, AOL are idiots for releasing this data. I hope Google sues the pants off them, and I also hope that someone starts a class action against AOL for releasing their search data without permission from the users. What a mess.
August 7, 2006 at 1:58 pm |
SEO is always going to be the method of choice to get traffic for websites that have lots of links to them.
I don’t really use MySpace, but I did set up an account with them out of curiosity. I can see that they work by getting you to refer the site to your friends, so that they set up profiles, and then refer their friends, etc.
I think that the methods used are worthy of study by any site that wants to build up traffic organically. The better you do that, the easier you will find it to rank well in the search engines. I’ve always struggled to do that with my sites!
August 7, 2006 at 7:54 pm |
[...] De data werd ondertussen offline gehaald (Techcrunch), maar op deze mirror kunnen de bestanden verder gedownload worden. Een eerste voorbeeld analyse (opgepast, dit is een interpretatie van de data door 1 persoon) is alvast opmerkelijk: ‘wil iemand zijn vrouw vermoorden?’ of ‘groeit MySpace vooral via SEO Spam?’. Verder geeft de data ook de belangrijkste keywoorden vrij die leiden naar een website (ideaal voor spammers en keywoord gerelateerde diensten zoals Adsense). [...]
August 7, 2006 at 8:43 pm |
Most of the time when i do a search for a site, I end up with the myspace page at the top of the list. SEO definitely has something to do with it. Lately whenever somebody links to something, it’s not the homepage, it’s the myspace page of whatever it is.
August 7, 2006 at 11:32 pm |
“I have tried to like MySpace, I really have, but the vast majority of the users of that site just cannot design pages. They are so ugly, and the site is so hard to search for specific profiles, that I avoid it almost entirely.”
Agreed, and there’s seldom (if ever) any real CONTENT there either. It’d be nice if Technorati didn’t index it either; very frustrating to be looking for real blogs with content and wind up with some teenager’s dribble.
August 8, 2006 at 4:33 am |
MySpace is one of the reasons why SoulCast was created. It’s like this fascinating mash-up of PostSecret, Blogger, and MySpace, all with RevShare thrown in. And it’s also geared toward an older audience who want to talk and share, but little or no customization of webpages–very unlike MySpace. I haven’t seen anything like it, and it may be the answer to ex-MySpacers.
August 8, 2006 at 3:12 pm |
[...] Plentyoffish.wordpress.com has already begun to analyze the search data and is posting the results of his analysis. Some of the queries are downright disturbing. Specific posts include “Aol data shows users planning to commit murder”, “AOL data showing Myspace growing SEO spam” “Myspace killing dating sites“ [...]
August 8, 2006 at 3:34 pm |
It used to be the same way with livejournal.com when googling for certain terms, although that seems to be less of an issue now. It’s debatable whether this is brought about by spammy techniques or not, blogging/social networking sites to a certain degree reflect the ethos of search engines – personal, niche interest sites whose content is naturally optimised. Mind you, MySpack now being a Murdoch company, it is tempting to believe the worst…
“I have tried to like MySpace, I really have, but the vast majority of the users of that site just cannot design pages. They are so ugly, and the site is so hard to search for specific profiles, that I avoid it almost entirely.”
This to a degree backs up Dr Nic’s comments above – MySpace’s internal search facility is inCREDibly bad, earlier today I was searching for aband called the Cosmic Sausages – pretty straightforward, you would have thought, but a search for ‘cosmic sausages’ turned up no useful results at all. Googling for ‘cosmic sausages myspace’ brings the correct page as the top result.
August 9, 2006 at 9:29 am |
Updates on the AOL Scandal
Aol released private search queries of 500.000 AOL users to the public. Analysts and Journalists alike are having a busy time analysing the data for various reasons. I was able to identify three different motivations: 1. How big is the privacy breach, …
August 9, 2006 at 10:34 pm |
Vrijgeven van search logs door AOL
Naast de weblogs (bijvoorbeeld Smetty, TechCrunch, The Paradigm Shift) hebben de klassieke media (MSM of mainstream media) het verhaal gebracht van de logs van zoekopdrachten die eerdere deze week door AOL vrijgegeven werden en kort nadien weer ingetro…
August 9, 2006 at 11:27 pm |
Have you removed queries that contained the domain of the target website in your analysis?
For example, people searching on:
myspace & myspace.com
are both trying to use search to directly navigate to those websites (yeah, why don’t they just go there directly? well, it happens a lot).
Without removing these queries, your results be largely skewed to the most visited web sites – by one site’s stats, the search term ‘google’ had 300K queries in the data (not the same as UU, but you get the point).
I’d be really interested to see the same list you have above without those searches – I think it would give a better estimation of ‘what sites have been successful with seo’.
August 11, 2006 at 12:53 am |
Use Vazigo.com to keep your privacy against big brother! Little F*ck.. this search engin it’s only in french… It’s time to learn french!!!
August 11, 2006 at 8:05 pm |
This list of incoming keywords for MySpace shows quite a long tail, although the top terms are mostly about MySpace or MySpace addons.
September 11, 2006 at 10:40 pm |
I honestly don’t know a webmaster who doesn’t have a MySpace resource site these days. In a matter of less than a year…
So yeah, there’s a long list of people trying to SEO the shit out of their sites.
September 15, 2006 at 2:51 pm |
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December 1, 2006 at 11:41 am |
Anyone else having bother with myspace or is it just my pc?
Last couple of days it seems it wont let me download any song from anywhere.
Anyone having same bother – or anyone how to sort it?
April 2, 2007 at 3:52 pm |
I honestly don’t know a webmaster who doesn’t have a MySpace resource site these days. In a matter of less than a year…
April 11, 2007 at 1:14 am |
I am a webmaster who doesn’t have a Myspace site, I do have a wordpress blog that helps my ordinary site, but that is not the main reason for having a blog.
I can’t see why anyone would prefer to be found on anything else than there main site, least of all their Myspace site.
April 12, 2007 at 8:37 am |
Decide whether you want to moderate comments or let them post right away, whether you want trackbacks/pingbacks and notify weblogs. This is all pretty self-explanatory but if you’re unsure exactly what how trackbacks and pingbacks work, Lorelle has the answer written in non-techno babble. In a shell of some nut, you don’t have to actually do anything.
July 21, 2007 at 4:29 pm |
I do have a myspace site. I think most webmasters do.
October 2, 2007 at 1:57 pm |
I also prefer blogs to myspace as they offer a good source of interation between like minded people on a specific subject. They are also good for picking up on ideas you may have missed or not considered
November 30, 2007 at 7:55 pm |
Interesting stats there.
January 1, 2008 at 9:42 am |
Aol released private search queries of 500.000 AOL users to the public. Analysts and Journalists alike are having a busy time analysing the data for various reasons. I was able to identify three different motivations: 1. How big is the privacy breach, …
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SEO is always going to be the method of choice to get traffic for websites that have lots of links to them.
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