how to get into news search engines, including Google News.
However, I don't think the Google News algorithm would trust a press release or an article posted on a site with less authority as it would one of the major publications or a source like Search Engine Watch blog. Who knows, maybe PRWeb's move to filter out low quality news releases by eliminating their free service will improve how those documents rank in Google news search.
Of particular interest from Danny's post is the breakout of long tail search phrases on Google News that drove traffic to the article. The cumulative number of phrases after the top ten represented a huge chunk of traffic. He was using Google Analytics for the graphs, but I've been using
Online Marketing Blog, Hittail shows that the top ten keywords drive 13.2% of all regular search engine traffic and long tail keywords drive 86.8% with 3674 unique keywords logged. That's a pretty big spread. Interestingly enough, we don't focus much on Google news for promotion of this blog, so I don't have any comparison to make there. Something we should change I think in light of the traffic numbers Danny reports.
For October 2006, just under 50% of the traffic to this blog came from search engines. A blog about SEO should rank well, right? What's funny is many of them don't.
Another interesting stat from October for this blog was that 25% of traffic came from Digg, a trend that is not slowing down despite the increased difficulty in getting to the Digg home page. Del.icio.us, Technorati, Stumble Upon and Techmeme were also top ten referrers for October. Part of the reason for that is
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