Google's Link Command Results for Yahoo.com As exemplified above

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Google appears to be very random indeed when showing link: results. Myth #4 - The Google Link Command Returns a Numerically Representative Count of Links This is possibly the myth that's most disturbing of all, primarily because so many operators in the SEO field belive it and track the link: command count as a reliable, useful metric. Nothing could be further from the truth - and here's some data to help back it up: The long tail of search demand has been around since the dawn of web search and, since that time, search marketers have been attempting to tap into the powerful stream that high quantities of unique content can provide.


I recently came across some great data france business email list from Hitwise (about 1 year old, but still highly relevant) showing off just how substantive the long tail can be. Bill Tancer's post - Sizing Up the Long Tail - gives some stats: ...the head and body together only account for 3.25% of all search traffic! In fact, the top terms don’t account for much traffic: • Top 100 terms: 5.7% of the all search traffic • Top 500 terms: 8.





Of the all search traffic • Top 1,000 terms: 10.6% of the all search traffic • Top 10,000 terms: 18.5% of the all search traffic This means if you had a monopoly over the top 1,000 search terms across all search engines (which is impossible), you’d still be missing out on 89.4% of all search traffic. There’s so much traffic in the tail it is hard to even comprehend. To illustrate, if search were represented by a tiny lizard with a one-inch head, the tail of that lizard would stretch for 221 miles.