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Is text really king over video? Compare the results
Scobleizer — ... Steve Rubel postulates that text is a lot better than video on the web. Oh, really? Well, explain this graph from Compete.com that compares fastcompany.tv (my video blog) to techmeme (which only displays text and penalizes videos). Truth is that if you want to build an audience on the web you must use EVERY tool available. And I’m not taking that advice yet. Yesterday I joined Digg (I never used it much until yesterday). Tomorrow, YouTube (SEO’s tell me that doing YouTube well helps your search engine ranking a lot — ...

Text Remains the King of the Web
Technology - Channel Feed — ... read at most 28% of the words during an average site visit and 20% is more likely Three letters: SEO - For all that Google Universal Search has done to elevate video, search results are still largely made up of text and everyone wants better SEO The workplace - It’s much easier for cube-based workers to read text on the screen and get away with it vs. watching long videos. Watching videos (even work related vids) screams "slacker" Read the rest of the story here. Text is king and it receives a lot of inbound links, just like what I did here. ...