Interesting 2010 statistics on the top 10 most searched terms on the internet in the US just released by HitWise.
In analyzing the top 1000 search terms for 2011 and Facebook was the top-searched term overall. This is the second year that the social networking website has been the top search term overall. Four variations of the term "facebook" were among the top 10 terms and accounted for 3.48 percent of searches overall.
YouTube was the third most-searched term in 2010, followed by craigslist, myspace and facebook.com. Analysis of the search terms revealed that social networking-related terms dominated the results, accounting for 4.18 percent of the top 50 searches.
New terms that entered into the top 50 search terms for 2010 included - netflix, verizon wireless, espn, chase, pogo, tagged, wells fargo, yellow pages, poptropica, games and hulu.
People's high connection with social media is show by the majority of the top website search being social networking related terms are related to sites which incorporating social media into their site to engage people.
Interesting. All of these sites signficantly rely from content contributed by the public.
This gives these sites 2 ongoing competitive advantages:
- All this additional fresh content really helps with search engine optimization (SEO), increasing their search engine rank.
- This engagement and participation also tightens and builds the ongoing connection with the users.
Experian Hitwise provides daily insights on how 25 million Internet users around the world interact with more than 1 million Websites.
As a business user, what are the websites that you most frequent most that didn't make it to this list?
What are the things that you would want to incorporate into your site to improve your website rank?
