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Google Top Searches 2007 vs Yahoo Top Ten: iPhone and Britney Spears No. 1

Hottest searches for 2007: Technology and entertainment. Britney Spears sure knows how to be in the news!

Check out the top search keywords for Google and Yahoo 2007.

Top Searches

Google fastest rising U.S. search terms for 2007:

1. iPhone: iPhone, the Apple mobile phone with music and video player and web browsing features tops the Google top searches 2007 list.
2. Webkinz: Webkinz is a stuffed animal that customers can register and play with online.
3. TMZ: A telepictures production and America Online joint venture that provides an inside look at the latest celebrity scandals.
4. Transformer toys: Transformers are highly flexible toys that shift shape, and became wildly popular from the 2007 hit movie transformers
5. YouTube: online video-sharing site
6. Club Penguin: Networking site for children
7. MySpace: Social networking site
8. Heroes: Heroes is an American science fiction serial drama television series created by Tim Kring on NBC.
9. Facebook: Social/business networking site
10. Anna Nicole Smith: Anna Nicole Smith was an American sex symbol, model, actress, celebrity, and spokeswoman.

Yahoo Top 10 Searches for 2007:

1. Britney Spears: An American pop music singer, songwriter, dancer actress and author.
2. WWE: World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) is a publicly traded, privately controlled integrated media (focusing in television, Internet, and live events), and sports entertainment company dealing primarily in the professional wrestling industry, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales.
3. Paris Hilton: An American celebutante, businesswoman, singer, model, actress, author, and television personality.
4. Naruto: Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimotoanime adaptation. The main character, Naruto Uzumaki, is a loud, hyperactive, unpredictable adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a Hokage, the ninja in the village acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all.
5. Beyonce: An American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, actress, dancer, and fashion designer, the creative force and lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny’s Child, the world’s best-selling female group of all time.
6. Lindsay Lohan: An American actress and pop music singer.
7. Rune Scape: The massive online adventure game by Jagex Ltd
8. Fantasy Football: A fantasy sports game in which participants (called “owners”) are arranged into a league.
9. Fergie: An American pop, hip hop, and R&B singer, songwriter, and actress.
10. Jessica Alba: An American actress, whose TV and film credits include Dark Angel, Honey, Sin City, Fantastic Four, Into the Blue, Idle Hands and 2007′s Good Luck Chuck.

AOLs Fear of Competition from Google, Yahoo

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AOL’s free email service came in after Yahoo mail and Gmail, now check this new Yahoo Clone by (guess who), AOL! If you thought powerhouses acted differently, this will break that myth. The whole world’s waiting to jump at them mercilessly, but competition can hit you hard.

If anything, I am surprised AOL couldn’t foretell what would be coming with this.

Submit your Articles for Free on a Popular Turkish Site

We submit websites in Google, DMOZ, Yahoo, and so on. What we usually don’t do is submit our websites or articles in local directories or e-zines, or in sites other than in English.

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10 Basic Steps for Beginners to Increase Traffic to your Blog

  1. Talk, talk, talk. Advertise your blog, let everyone know your blog, your family, friends, colleagues, clients, associates, relatives, etc.
  2. Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com. Go to MyYahoo.com, sign in, add your URL feed link and keep checking it everyday. In a while, Yahoo will start spidering your site regularly.
  3. Write intelligent comments on popular and high traffic niche sites in context with your own content.
  4. Use Ping-O-Matic every time you publish a post. If you use WordPress, your post will automatically get pinged.
  5. Every page of your website should have the link to your blog.
  6. Send a link of your blog along with your emails, newsletters, sales reports, other reports, autoresponders.
  7. Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers.
  8. At least post one post a day, irrespective of whether your traffic increases. It will eventually increase, don’t give up, enjoy it.
  9. Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts.

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