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I typed “predictions” in Wolfram Alpha, and I got that… among other things.

Chris F. Masse — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:33:21 +0000

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And now, for “forecasting”:

They wonder what happened to TradeSports, they question Google, and Google sends them to Midas Oracle (and not InTrade or Overcoming Whatever) —because only Midas Oracle will tell them the truth about prediction markets.

Chris F. Masse — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:10:30 +0000

Since November 2008:

And “tradesports” is only one keyword… among thousands.

Google Web Search shows that I am the only blogger in the world to talk about “prediction market journalism”.

Chris F. Masse — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:29:42 +0000

Good thing: I’m a pioneer (following Justin Wolfers’ footsteps).

Bad thing: The whole world does not give the first fig about “prediction market journalism“. We will spend much energy introducing them to this new concept.

Since YooPick opened their door, Midas Oracle has been getting, daily, 2 or 3 dozens referrals from FaceBook.

Chris F. Masse — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:10:40 +0000

I understand that YooPick is a FaceBook application, but I’d like to know what these people are talking about, and in what context they link to Midas Oracle, and what they expect to find out on Midas Oracle when they click on the Midas Oracle URL. Natural curiosity for an intrepid webmaster like me.

Makes me think of what some IT bloggers said… that they now get more daily referrals from social networking websites (like Twitter, FriendFeed, FaceBook, or LinkedIn) than from Google Web Search.

(That’s not the case with Midas Oracle. For your information, on week days, we receive about 350 daily visits from people using Internet search engines.)

So, if you could answer my interrogations, please, e-mail me.

YooPick for FaceBook

YooPick @ FaceBook

PS: Yet another hit for Robin Hanson‘s MSR. – MSR is only step one in his world domination plan.

UPDATE: Mystery solved.

How to optimize your prediction market blog (e.g., Midas Oracle, Caveat Bettor) or prediction exchange website (e.g., InTrade, TradeSports, BetFair, NewsFutures, HubDub) for Google Web Search —and all the other search engines out there.

Chris F. Masse — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:48:35 +0000

Interview of Google’s Matt Cutts by USA Today.

The basic SEO tips.

The secret Google document that Bo Cowgill doesn’t want you to see

Chris F. Masse — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:06:32 +0000

Google’s Web Search Quality Rating Program handbook, used in their fight against webspam.

Via SEL

InTrade has done a remarkable job enhancing its visibility on Google Search for queries on prediction markets.

Chris F. Masse — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:44:24 +0000

InTrade is now the #2 result for the “prediction markets” query on Google Web Search, just behind the unbeatable Wikipedia.

Their website title is meaningful (“InTrade prediction markets”);
Their description line is meaningful (“Trading Exchange where you trade on politics, current events, financial and other contracts with best execution.”) I would just object to the adjective “trading”, which is unnecessary since we do “trading” on an exchange (we don’t grow truffles or make babies, there).

The InTrade people did an excellent SEO job, here. Which allowed them to climb up to the second place. (Note that Justin Wolfers is #3. CFM is at the 6th place, above the Google blog on their internal prediction markets, and also above the Iowa Electronic Markets.)