Let the MySpace Land Grab Begin!
The cat is finally out of the bag so I guess it's okay to post about it now. I've been fooling around with MySpace.com since stumbling on it in the SERPS. Anybody on the hunt for opportunity will smell the scent of it in MySpace, where you too can create a profile, build a network, and siphon visitors to your ringtone, free ipod, slimming pills website, and myriad other topics that would appeal to their youngish demographics.
Generation Gap Causing Blindness to Opportunity?
The SEO community has largely been blind to the opportunity, mostly I assume because of the generational gap. Many of us may be too old or "outside their demographic" to recognize MySpace for what it is, and it flies under our radar. Consider this, one person started a thread last month asking why Friendster isn't worth as much as MySpace. Hey, he might was well have asked why Lawrence Welk isn't played on the radio as often as Coldplay. The generation gap is that bad in the SEO community.
If you're still not motivated enough to get out of your rocking chair, consider this:
MySpace morphs into Net's new star player
Just over 2 years old, MySpace now has 2 1/2 times the traffic of Google Inc., and it quickly eclipsed Friendster as the top social-networking site where users build larger and larger circles of friends.
Listen ladies and gentleman, opportunity is knocking. MySpace has 2.5 times the traffic of Google. What would you do with that kind of traffic? You can quibble about how those traffic numbers were reached, but however you slice it, it's a huge honking slice of pie. Let me repeat: There is a shitload of traffic to be tapped in MySpace.
Ever go to a search engine and do a site:example.com keyword search? Go to the Overture Inventory Tool and do a query for site:myspace.com to check out the traffic numbers as well as to get a peek at what people are interested in at Myspace.
Here is a sample:
1426073 site myspace.com
582410 html site myspace.com
576684 music site myspace.com
521745 friends site myspace.com
481641 layout site myspace.com
374586 photo site myspace.com
273306 video site myspace.com
151199 jessica site myspace.com
147083 my chemical romance site myspace.com
141326 background site myspace.com
133199 ashley site myspace.com
130785 sex site myspace.com
130045 download site myspace.com
110637 lesbian site myspace.com
There's a lesson in the Sutter's Mill story. The owner of the saw mill was so caught up in what he was doing that he failed to captalize on the discovery of gold on his property. Instead of converting his saw mill into a mining operation, Old Man Sutter intended to keep the discovery a secret so his workers wouldn't leave the mill. The California Gold Rush left him behind.
Dig around, MySpace may be a new Sutter's Mill.
Generation Gap Causing Blindness to Opportunity?
The SEO community has largely been blind to the opportunity, mostly I assume because of the generational gap. Many of us may be too old or "outside their demographic" to recognize MySpace for what it is, and it flies under our radar. Consider this, one person started a thread last month asking why Friendster isn't worth as much as MySpace. Hey, he might was well have asked why Lawrence Welk isn't played on the radio as often as Coldplay. The generation gap is that bad in the SEO community.
If you're still not motivated enough to get out of your rocking chair, consider this:
MySpace morphs into Net's new star player
Just over 2 years old, MySpace now has 2 1/2 times the traffic of Google Inc., and it quickly eclipsed Friendster as the top social-networking site where users build larger and larger circles of friends.
Listen ladies and gentleman, opportunity is knocking. MySpace has 2.5 times the traffic of Google. What would you do with that kind of traffic? You can quibble about how those traffic numbers were reached, but however you slice it, it's a huge honking slice of pie. Let me repeat: There is a shitload of traffic to be tapped in MySpace.
Ever go to a search engine and do a site:example.com keyword search? Go to the Overture Inventory Tool and do a query for site:myspace.com to check out the traffic numbers as well as to get a peek at what people are interested in at Myspace.
Here is a sample:
1426073 site myspace.com
582410 html site myspace.com
576684 music site myspace.com
521745 friends site myspace.com
481641 layout site myspace.com
374586 photo site myspace.com
273306 video site myspace.com
151199 jessica site myspace.com
147083 my chemical romance site myspace.com
141326 background site myspace.com
133199 ashley site myspace.com
130785 sex site myspace.com
130045 download site myspace.com
110637 lesbian site myspace.com
There's a lesson in the Sutter's Mill story. The owner of the saw mill was so caught up in what he was doing that he failed to captalize on the discovery of gold on his property. Instead of converting his saw mill into a mining operation, Old Man Sutter intended to keep the discovery a secret so his workers wouldn't leave the mill. The California Gold Rush left him behind.
Dig around, MySpace may be a new Sutter's Mill.
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