by Augie Ray on 08/24/2009 01:33
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83% of online population, ages 13 to 54, use social media, says new Knowledge Networks report; 47% participate weekly
Menlo Park, CA; May 20, 2009: A new report by Knowledge Networks gives advertisers, marketers and researchers a clearer picture of the motivations and attitudes of social media users – with sometimes-surprising results. While 83% of the Internet population (ages 13 to 54) participates in social media – 47% on a weekly basis – less than 5% of social media users regularly turn to these sites for guidance on purchase decisions in any of nine product/service categories. In addition, only 16% of social media users say they are more likely to buy from companies that advertise on social sites.
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ordPress conference WordCamp was held in San Francisco on May 30th 2009 and in attendance were more than 700 bloggers from more than 30 countries all around the world.
One of the most exciting presentations was Google’s Matt Cutts on why WordPress is the best blogging platform in terms of search engine optimization, SEO. Matt Cutts is the head of the Web Spam team at Google.
WordPress is a “fantastic choice” for SEO
Matt Cutts praised WordPress for being a fantastic choice for an SEO-friendly blog platform. WordPress automatically solves a ton of SEO issues, bloggers might have. It is a fantastic piece of software, it makes your site easily crawlable by search engines, solves some 80-90% of mechanics of SEO and is the first big step anyone can take towards creating a popular online business.
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Most of these articles I find because Carlos Hernandez posts them to Twitter (Click here to follow him now). If you are not following him yet, it’s well worth it.
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