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Re: How Much Does The Long Tail Weigh?

Mike Levin — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:52:38 -0000

> So, although it would be great to be one of the few multi-billionaires, you can’t complain about being a mere multi-millionaire.

What a great way of putting it! That really puts it in perspective for long tail naysayer's. I would also volunteer that perhaps more than 20% of GNP is up for grabs, and that sustained over a long enough time-period, it could have a significant impact on Pareto's Distribution... one might hope.

Re: Who is Mike Levin?

Mike Levin — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:01:42 -0000

Flattery will get you everywhere. Don't worry, the Stumble Upon traffic will gradually diminish. I find it's got a two or three day effect. And it's still worth getting Dugg when you can. As for me, I'm just a person heading up an awesome team who is compulsive about checking for HitTail mentions in Technorati. Thanks again for the mention. We really liked your quote.

Re: Who is Mike Levin?

Mike Levin — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:49:14 -0000

No problem. You got me to thinking about why I promote Digg and Stumble Upon so much, even though HitTail is my thing. So, I went ahead and made a blog post about HitTail Vs. Digg as methods for driving traffic.

Re: Hittail Results

Mike Levin — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:53:26 -0000

1. You put the new suggestions into the title tag (or headline field) of a new blog post. Make it a sensible headline that fits within the context of your site. It's more effective to add new content in a blogging system than to tweak old content. That's because it's naturally well optimized for search, and the submit will cause a news "ping" to notify Weblogs and blo.gs services that new content exists on the web. This starts the process of your content ultimately winding up in Google default search.

3. You got most of that right. The suggestions have more potential than all other keywords. Technically, the reason this is, is because they're teetering on the edge of performing better for you. Our algorithms know this, but in great part, it's derived from "how many pages in" the search results they dug to find you.

That's KEEN competitive intelligence that most others leave on the table.

And there's more making it work well, such as our "keywords forever" feature, but that's too much to explain here. In fact, it always sounds confusing to explain it. There's a lot of trust involved, and we love Vlad the Affiliate, because he took that leap of faith and has been very generous sharing his experiences and results with the world.

Thanks Vlad!

Mike Levin and the Team at HitTail

Re: Technorati, BumpZee, PlanetBeta, PRWeb And Other Things I Did Not Blog About In Last Few Days

Mike Levin — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:11:41 -0000

Yep Vlad, you know I'm going to stop by eventually whenever you mention us :)

Your comments about HitTail and Affiliates was a direct inspiration for how we named the TypePad blog where we're collecting quotes and testimonials.

Re: Hittail Results

Mike Levin — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:12:11 -0000

HitTail doesn't advocate targeting the entire long tail. It's rigged so that it only suggests items where there is known traffic. So, if there is a popular term for which HitTail sees you might have potential, it is capable of issuing a suggestion on popular terms as well. It just happens less.

Re: 103Bees. Did Hittail Finally Found Its Match?

Mike Levin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:01:33 -0000

We're always happy to look at new features, so long as they are consistent with the exactly-what-you-need approach we've taken. Would features like top questions be useful? It's fairly straight forward--look for hits that have who, what, why, when and where in it, that also have a high hit count. I expect you'll be excited by some of the new features we're preparing that have more to do with that "side effect" you mentioned.

Re: Who is Mike Levin?

Mike Levin — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:01:42 -0000

Re: Who is Mike Levin?

Mike Levin — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:49:14 -0000

Re: Hittail Results

Mike Levin — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:53:26 -0000

Re: Technorati, BumpZee, PlanetBeta, PRWeb And Other Things I Did Not Blog About In Last Few Days

Mike Levin — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:11:41 -0000

Re: Hittail Results

Mike Levin — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:12:11 -0000

Re: How Much Does The Long Tail Weigh?

Mike Levin — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:52:38 -0000

Re: Facebook Prepares to Overtake MySpace Domestically

Mike Levin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:06:49 -0000

Google's Trends for Websites had Facebook surpassing MySpace in November of 2007.

Re: 8 Steps to Growing Your Blog Community One Person At a Time

Mike Levin — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:07:44 -0000

Hi Ben. I also wanted to suggest taking a look at HitTail as a method of growing your blogging community. It's a writing suggestion tool for bloggers, which when acted upon, can help grow your natural search traffic (influx of first-time readers).

Re: 10 Questions To Ask Before Launching Your Blog

Mike Levin — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:25:01 -0000

Once your blog has a bit of content and the search hits start coming in, it's a good time to run HitTail and consider the writing suggestion tool that it issues. This builds your blogging momentum, reduces writer's block, and hopefully starts the snowball effect of natural traffic.

Re: Keyword Tools Useless for Long Tail

Mike Levin — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:33:38 -0000

Jack,

Thanks for the traffic you've sent to us. You've been a great friend to HitTail. We hope you're the long tail keyword tool you're looking for, and invite you to provide feedback either here, on our forum or directly to me.

Mike

Re: Visitor Tracking with Hit Tail…Update

Mike Levin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:24:49 -0000

Sure, HitTail can be used on any site. It happens to work particularly well on blogs, because of their general adherence to SEO best practices. It should do awesome with platforms such as Drupal, but will also do well on many other such as ecommerce.

Re: My PR guy

Mike Levin — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 12:37:05 -0000

You, then Om Malik. I wonder when Matt Cutts is going to make the break. Good path. Companies should keep that in mind when they choose/allow their high profile blogger.

Re: Long Tail Keywords are the Latest SEO Buzz

Mike Levin — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:10:56 -0000

I too am an advocate of long tail keyword marketing. Our tool does not so much perform a long tail analysis, as it explicitly tells you what words to use in the title of your next blog posts in order to assuredly add more traffic to your site.

Re: Google Adsense Referrals Text Links

Mike Levin — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:50:00 -0000

> I don’t use HitTail...
...yet.