After having looked at one week of Sphinn SEO lessons it's time to put a number on things.
SEO's, SEM's and other abbreviated people within our industry love, love, numbers. Clickthrough rate, how many positions up in the rankings, number of estimated searches per month, links per minute. Heck, even Google is into it: -6, -30, -950, -whatever number penalty. Our very own Tom Tsinas loves numbers so much he's created a series of "[insert keyword] by the numbers" posts.
Whether there're 4 reasons why we like lists, 7 ways to write numbered lists or 10 top reasons to avoid top 10 lists here are 44 enumerated pieces of Sphinn (SEO-ish) wisdom from the past 7 days:
5 x 3
For a total of 16 votes or an average of 3.2 votes per enumerated list:
- 3 (Top) lessons from online communities
- 3 (Top) responsibilities of this SEO consultant
- 3 P’s of PPProject Management
- 3 tactics to make Web 2.0 work
- 3 Ways To Get More Than 100 Fans In StumbleUpon
3 x 4
For a total of 9 votes or an average of 3 votes per enumerated list:
- 4 M’s of digital marketing
- 4 Reasons for Social White Papers
- 4 Things Companies Should Do To Really Prepare for Social Media
8 x 5
For a total of 102 votes or an average of 12.75 votes per enumerated list:
- 5 (Top) Ways to Build Team Commitment
- 5 5 simple steps to improve your web content (SEO)
- 5 C’s of social media
- 5 Common Crawlability Mistakes That Kill Your SEO Success
- 5 Google Gadgets to Play With
- 5 Steps To Find Your Broad Match Key Phrases
- 5 Tips For Increasing Blog Traffic
- 5 Ways To Improve Online Cross- & Up-selling
2 x 6
For a total of 5 votes or an average of 2.5 votes per enumerated list:
- 6 newest interactive trends: how will they affect you?
- 6 Useful Tips To Build Relationships With Your Readers
3 x 7
For a total of 14 votes or an average of 4.6 votes per enumerated list:
- 7 Deadly Sins Of Social Media
- 7 Reasons Bad Website Design Affects Traffic
- 7 Tips for Tracking Offline Conversions
1 x 8
For a total (and average...) of 10 votes:
2 x 9
For a total of 21 votes or an average of 10.5 votes per enumerated list:
- 9 Search-Related Twitter Service to Help You Find Tweets
- 9 Ways Google Is Discovering The Invisible Web
12 x 10
For a total of 104 votes or an average of 8.6 votes per enumerated list:
- 10 Things I Have Learned in a Year in Web Analytics
- 10 (Top) Fatal URL Design Mistakes
- 10 (Top) Link Building Strategies
- 10 (Top) reasons to start blogging - What’s all the fuss about?
- 10 Greasemonkey Scripts That Make Life Easier for Digg Users
- 10 Of The Best Alternative Social Media Sites
- 10 Questions Not To Ask A Social Media Panel
- 10 Reasons Not To Blog
- 10 Reasons Why Companies Should Engage in Social Media
- 10 Things to Check Before You Hit Send
- 10 things to remember if you want to satisfy a DMOZ editor
- 10 Timeless Persuasive Writing Techniques
1 x 12
For a total (and average...) of 12 votes:
1 x 13
For a total (and average...) of 10 votes:
1 x 15
For a total (and average...) of 3 votes:
2 x 20
For a total of 16 votes or an average of 8 votes per enumerated list:
- 20 Advanced Techniques to Improve Adwords Campaign Revealed
- 20 Uses for Twitter for Business and Government
1 x 22
For a total (and average...) of 9 votes:
1 x 25
For a total (and average...) of 9 votes:
1 x 104
For a total (and average...) of 1 vote:
Top 15 Enumerated Lists To Make
So what can we learn from this (forgetting for a moment that we didn't factor in day, time of day, wind velocity, number of characters in the title and amount of coffee consumed)?
- 5 [subject] : 12.75 votes
- 12 [subject] : 12 votes
- 9 [subject] : 10.5 votes
- 13 [subject] : 10 votes & 8 [subject] : 10 votes
- 22 [subject] : 9 votes & 25 [subject] : 9 votes
- 10 [subject] : 8.6 votes
- 20 [subject] : 8 votes
- 7 [subject] : 4.6 votes
- 3 [subject] : 3.2 votes
- 4 [subject] : 3 votes & 15 [subject] : 3 votes
- 6 [subject] : 2.5 votes
- 104 [subject] : 1 vote
A top 5 list seems to be a nice one to make. Short enough to quickly go through, long enough to provide value.
Image courtesy of Claudecf
thanx for post and very useful information!
I’m really not too fond of numbers or that is what I always thought. Then I read this article and realized I was as obsessed with numbers as the next guy! Cool Article.
Yeah, I noticed a lot of bloggers are so addicted with SEO… and sometimes most of them are really successful.
THanks for this post.
Nice spin you put on this story, Ruud. Serves to illustrate your point very well. The only way an SEO can truly quantify his (or hers) efforts is with stats and figures.