Ben Grossman has compiled a series of statistics that are sure to intrigue internet marketers and SEO specialists in general. I recommend this slide to anyone who is in the field of SEO, SNM, SEM, blogging, and internet marketing. Enjoy!
This is one of the tourism-promoting videos that came with the original slide. I really enjoyed watching it – and I think they do a great job promoting this country.
Statistics:
- Number of Facebook Updates per Second: 700
- Number of Tweets per Second: 600
- 9 Out of 10 Internet users visit social networks monthly
- 1 out of 2 internet users read blogs monthly
- 1 out of 8 minutes spent online is spent on Facebook
- People spend 300% more time on social media than email
- There are 140 million 140 character tweets sent every single day on twitter
- There are 30,000,000,000 pieces of content shared on Facebook monthly
- There are 38,127 searches on Google, Bing and Yahoo every second
- 78% of online consumers do their research before they buy
- 70% of Facebook users who click the like button on Pages do not feel they’ve given their permission to be marketed to
- 50% of Facebook users log-in every day
- 130 Friends is the average sphere of influence a Facebook user has
- 72% of adult celphone users text messages
- 65% of adult celphone users sleep with their phones
- 50% of US celphones will be smart phones by Christmas 2011
- 1 out of 3 Yelp serches is from mobile
- 41% of US internet users threatened to stop buying from companies that sent irrelevant messages
- 81% give their email address for a giveaway, deal, or upcoming sale
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NICE! This just underscores the assertion that if you’re not leveraging your advertising campaigns with social media, you are leaving money on the table.
Yip Social Media is definitely big! For this reason I am learning and researching SMM techniques so as not to get left behind.
Those are really interesting numbers! although this conclusions are not really connected to the typical free SEO positioning.
Awesome post as always, Sean! This little grotto of information should open any hardened businessman’s eyes on the gravity of Social Media’s role in Brand and Business advertisement and costumer service. Great job helping fledgeling SEOs move their site ranks!
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