Most Read New Articles in 2008<\/p>\n
Here are the 10 articles\u00a0(who picked 10 as the appropriate number, anyways?)\u00a0written in 2008 \u00a0that received the most readership during the past year. Readership and traffic have moved up significantly compared to last year, growing along with the broader interest in Local. My Top 10 most read stories of 2008 were viewed a total of\u00a019206 times compared to\u00a011337 Top 10 \u00a0viewings in\u00a0the 2007. Pageviews and visits increased ~107% year over year. \u00a0As you can see from the numbers on these, the most popular articles, my readership is still a niche.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But Local is a a growing & exciting niche and one where much of the future of the internet lays. On this blog I write to the professionals and\u00a0aficionados\u00a0within that niche. That allows me to interact with the many people in the Local space that are forging much of what Local will be.\u00a0It has been an incredibly fun year meeting and engaging those Localites in person, on the phone and on my blog. To these many folks that have shared their ideas with me and the readers of this blog, sent me visitors and contributed to the local space I say: Thanks for a great year & thanks for helping me understand and learn as much as I have!<\/p>\n
| Article Title<\/span><\/td>\n | Original Date of Publication<\/span><\/td>\n | Times Read<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n| Microsoft Listing in Google Maps Hijacked! oops by me<\/a> | \n<\/span><\/td>\n 2008\/10\/30<\/span><\/td>\n | 4867<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Google Maps to provide complete voter information for upcoming election<\/a><\/td>\n | 2008\/09\/20<\/span><\/td>\n | 2579<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Google Maps: New Local 10 Pack Now Live<\/a><\/td>\n | 2008\/01\/22<\/span><\/td>\n | 2124<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Google Maps: Category Mystery Now solved (Part 3)<\/a><\/td>\n | 2008\/02\/07<\/span><\/td>\n | 1407<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Google Maps Announces Quality Guidelines and Reinclusion Option<\/a><\/td>\n | 2008\/09\/16<\/span><\/td>\n | 1339<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Google Plus box: Where Does the Wrong Data Come from<\/a><\/td>\n | 2008\/03\/06<\/span><\/td>\n | 1218<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Google Maps: Local Business Center Updated with New Interface<\/a><\/td>\n | 2008\/06\/13<\/span><\/td>\n | 1183<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Google Maps: Local Business Center Updated with New Interface<\/a><\/td>\n | 2008\/08\/04<\/span><\/td>\n | 1141<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Google Maps: KML for Authority and Ranking<\/a><\/td>\n | 2008\/08\/07<\/span><\/td>\n | 1042<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Google Maps now Using TeleAtlas Data Exclusively<\/a><\/td>\n | 2008\/09\/19<\/span><\/td>\n | 900<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n | \u00a0<\/p>\n Most Read New Articles in 2008 from Previous Years<\/p>\n Articles in the blogosphere often have a very short shelf life. Sometimes, you spend countless hours in research and writing an article and it seems to barely cause a blip in the scheme of things at the time it is published. The\u00a010 Likely Elements of Google\u2019s Local Search Algorithm<\/a>\u00a0was one such article. But it manages to find readers 18 months after it was written and it still has relevance. Here are the 5 stories from a time long, long ago that were the most read this year<\/p>\n
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