Using ‘Piggybacking’ For Boosting Your Site’s Search Engine Ranking Part 3

August 25, 2010

Here are the most popular News related sites in the world:

#1 – Yahoo! (yahoo.com)

Traffic Rank (Worldwide): 4
Traffic Rank (US): 3
Traffic Rank (Canada): 5
Sites Linking In: 119,825

Before Google was born and ousted Yahoo it was the top search engine in the world when the internet was in its infancy in the early-mid 1990’s.  Yahoo News is a news aggregator.  That is, it collect news articles from various sources.  It’s like a search engine for news, much as the Associated Press or Reuters functions.  Its articles come from the Associated Press (AP), Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Fox News, Christian Science Monitor, NPR, USA Today, CNN.com, CBC News, Seven News, BBC News, and others.  In April 2009, Yahoo News ranked second among global news sites in U.S. users after msnbc.com.  

Do a search for “real estate” in Yahoo News and then make the resulting link your home page for your web browser.  This will give you links to dozens of real estate related articles each day.  You can also create a customizable news page under my.yahoo.com

Here are relevant sites for your article comments among the top 20 most popular news sites in the world:

#2 – BBC Online (bbc.co.uk)

Traffic Rank (Worldwide): 46
Traffic Rank (US): 13.9% of site’s traffic
Traffic Rank (Canada): 2.3% of site’s traffic (#39)
Sites Linking In: 100,335

#3 – CNN Interactive (cnn.com)

Traffic Rank (Worldwide): 60
Traffic Rank (US): 18
Traffic Rank (Canada): 28
Sites Linking In: 85,968

#4 – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Traffic Rank (Worldwide): 91
Traffic Rank (US): 26
Traffic Rank (Canada): 69
Sites Linking In: 85,968

#5 – My Yahoo (my.yahoo.com)

#8 – The Huffington Post (huffingtonpost.com)

Traffic Rank (Worldwide): 147
Traffic Rank (US): 34
Traffic Rank (Canada): 86
Sites Linking In: 85,968

#9 – NBC News and MSNBC News (msnbc.msn.com)

Traffic Rank (Worldwide): 9
Traffic Rank (US): 12
Traffic Rank (Canada): 7
Sites Linking In: 39,000

#10 – Google News (news.google.com)

Traffic Rank (Worldwide): 1
Traffic Rank (US): 1
Traffic Rank (Canada): 1
Sites Linking In: 727,036

#11 – The Guardian (guardian.co.uk)

Traffic Rank (Worldwide): 211
Traffic Rank (US): 24.9% of site’s traffic
Traffic Rank (Canada): 2.5% of site’s traffic
Sites Linking In: 77,318

#12 – Wall Street Journal (wsj.com)

Traffic Rank (Worldwide): 251
Traffic Rank (US): 68
Sites Linking In: 55,709

#13 – Fox News Channel (foxnews.com)

Traffic Rank (Worldwide): 216
Traffic Rank (US): 45
Sites Linking In: 35,406

#15 – Reuters Group PLC (news.google.com)

Traffic Rank (Worldwide): 311
Traffic Rank (US): 203
Traffic Rank (Canada): 3.1% of site’s traffic
Sites Linking In: 56,398

#16 – Washington Post (washingtonpost.com)

Traffic Rank (Worldwide): 330
Traffic Rank (US): 78
Traffic Rank (Canada): 2.3% of site’s traffic
Sites Linking In: 73,500

#18 – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

Traffic Rank (Worldwide): 375
Traffic Rank (US): 93
Traffic Rank (Canada): 2.3% of site’s traffic
Sites Linking In: 47,160

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