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SEO challenge of the day: FanDuel

Midas Oracle is the #2 result for the Google search on “CrowdCast” —above the New York Times.
I am going to optimize Midas Oracle today for “FanDuel”. I need to surpass Twitter, TechCrunch UK and FaceBook. A piece of cake —gimme some time. I am the Prince of search engine optimization.
Previously: HubDub launches FanDuel exclusively thru [...]

Midas Oracle has attracted 443,721 visitors since its launch in November 2006

Marginal Revolution has attracted more than 23 million visitors since its launch in 2003.
That’s according to the Wall Street Journal.
Midas Oracle has attracted 443,721 visitors since its launch in November 2006.

So, Marginal Revolution is only 52 times bigger than Midas Oracle. And they started off 3 years before we did.
We are not ridiculous.
ADDENDUM: Midas Oracle [...]

22,000 people interested in prediction markets and collective forecasting

During the month of June 2009, Midas Oracle served [*]:
- 21,952 visits;
- 41,622 pageviews.
Thanks to you. I am very fortunate to have loyal readers. Thanks so much. I am working in the back-office to develop Midas Oracle further, so as to serve you better in the coming years. Stay tuned… this is only the beginning [...]

Type “GE Imagination Market” in Google, and you’ll see prediction market journalism, *first* —and, after that, the spin done by the companies in question.

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Why is the web traffic surging?

We have one winner and two losers.

The winner: Daniel Horowitz of The Emergent Fool
- Yes, as Daniel guessed it, Google is sending about one thousand people a day on Midas Oracle .ORG, and more than half of that is related to my post about how to download Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s documentary film, HOME. The web traffic [...]

The web traffic to Midas Oracle is exploding.

Can you guess why? Leave your guess in the comments. (Jason Ruspini is excluded from the contest; I told him.)

UPDATE: Our secret is revealed…

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Midas Oracle has a de facto monopoly on “collective forecasting”.

If you type “collective forecasting” in the 3 main search engines, Midas Oracle pops up as #1 in the results. Thanks to Emile of NewsFutures and Prof Robin for their devotion and plain hard work in pushing this industry keyword (and the underlying concept). It is all fair that Midas Oracle is reaping the benefits. [...]

Twitter drove more traffic to Midas Oracle than Marginal Revolution (who have linked to us) did —this past week.

FREEZE: The feed subscribers of Marginal Revolution (who came here thru Google Reader or else) are not counted, so the number for Marginal Revolution is actually higher than what Google Analytics tells me.

This stats is only for the referring sites, not for the search engines.

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Emile Servan-Schreiber coined the term “collective forecasting”… Robin Hanson popularized it…

… and Midas Oracle is reaping all the benefits. I am laughing thru my a**.

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Mine is bigger and longer.

I have twice more followers than he has —and I started well after he did.
I am the best.

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