tag:dashes.com,2010:/anil//1/tag:www.dashes.com,2006:/anil//1.6468- 2010-01-05T03:36:24Z Comments for I am appealing to young men! A Blog About Making Culture Movable Type 4.31-en tag:www.dashes.com,2006:/anil//1.6468 2006-07-07T18:11:03Z 2006-08-17T02:03:35Z I am appealing to young men! Microsoft's AdCenter advertising service has a demographic predictor as part of their labs; It's supposed to indicate what audience can be expected to respond to... Anil http://anildash.com/ Microsoft's AdCenter advertising service has a demographic predictor as part of their labs; It's supposed to indicate what audience can be expected to respond to a certain search term or URL. Here's the results for dashes.com:

Gender: Male Oriented with following Confidence:

  • Male: 0.54
  • Female: 0.46

Age: <18 Oriented with following distribution:
Age Demographics

I'm a bit skeptical that my readers are that young, but it's interesting to see what the service says regardless. And thanks to George for the link.

]]> tag:www.dashes.com,2006:/anil//1.6468-comment:37779 Comment from amit on 2006-07-07 amit http://cgindia.blogspot.com/ skeptical? me too....I don’t know what tech. they are using but after logically thinking about it,.... when you click to find customer’s age, gender, and other demographic information for particular URL their bot look inside content of the site and matches the frequent used keywords with the generalize data they have; same as it happens in case of search engines......But as the process is way too analytical its probably be not even 55% accurate......Technology in some ways cant beat human mind...isn’t it ?

http://websoup.blogspot.com/2005/12/most-precise-search-engine.html

]]> 2006-07-07T18:58:26Z tag:www.dashes.com,2006:/anil//1.6468-comment:37786 Comment from Derrick Schneider on 2006-07-07 Derrick Schneider http://www.obsessionwithfood.com I'll come down on the skeptical side. I have a hard time believing that Obsession with Food is so disproportionately popular with the under-18 crowd.

]]> 2006-07-07T19:45:13Z tag:www.dashes.com,2006:/anil//1.6468-comment:37809 Comment from Niall Kennedy on 2006-07-07 Niall Kennedy http://www.niallkennedy.com/ Too many mentions of LiveJournal perhaps? OMG! lol

Your music tastes never left your early 20s, so why should your blog?

]]> 2006-07-07T22:41:22Z tag:www.dashes.com,2006:/anil//1.6468-comment:37858 Comment from Andrew Denny on 2006-07-08 Andrew Denny http://www.grannybuttons.com My mileage is much the same as Anil's. 54/46 split on sex, and a similarly descending age demographic.

Unless a site has massive traffic or serves a niche market I suspect it's of little practical use. It'll only make a difference where a percentage point makes a difference.

But if you are a blogger or you serve a niche market your readership profile is probably pretty obvious anyway. I had to really hunt around for a site in my own niche market that skewed the results beyond my own.

www.englishcrafts.co.uk does the trick - mainly female, mainly older. But it wouldn't take a degree in advertising (or a Microsoft tool) to see that!

]]> 2006-07-08T07:09:09Z tag:www.dashes.com,2006:/anil//1.6468-comment:37875 Comment from Shelley on 2006-07-08 Shelley http://words.einsteinslock.com Skeptical -- Blogher got the same demographics you did. I'll say we should be skeptical.

]]> 2006-07-08T12:01:18Z tag:www.dashes.com,2006:/anil//1.6468-comment:37983 Comment from blogtommy on 2006-07-08 blogtommy http://www.blogtommy.com Although most here don't agree, I've been tracking this stuff for a while now and am always shocked by how young the average "joe" and "janet" is. Before we go all ballistic on these services (which I admit I have done) let's think for just a touch on myspace....I joined a free service that allows you to browse all the members and was amazed at the NUMBERS of kids signed up....With a blog, you might think..."not here" but it's still about seo and what happens when certain terms are punched in....I think this and all other services like it should give us pause. I've been much "cleaner" since seeing my results!

T

]]> 2006-07-09T01:52:57Z tag:www.dashes.com,2006:/anil//1.6468-comment:38056 Comment from Andrew Denny on 2006-07-09 Andrew Denny http://www.grannybuttons.com I guess the real problem isn't where your hits are coming from, but who your returning visitors are.

My own blog has a name that (unfortunately) rates highly in sex searches ('granny' is a sex industry term for an older woman). So I get a lot of 5-second hits from the wrong sort of visitor.

What I'd like is a tool that analyses the demographics of my returning visitors and market. I'm sure there's plenty of such tools for SEO experts, but my expertise is in what I blog about, not in SEO. I'm sure I'm not alone.

]]> 2006-07-09T11:07:49Z tag:www.dashes.com,2006:/anil//1.6468-comment:662762 Comment from Travis Runck on 2010-01-04 Travis Runck http://hubpages.com/hub/Tips-to-Get-High-Search-Engine-Optimization-Ranking Stunning post about SEO. I'm frankly amazed that that hasn't been alleged earlier.

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