News Now Launched

Me and a few of my buddies have started a ‘What’s Hot’ site called News Now that talks about anything and everything you can think of. Bottom line, if it’s being talked about we will write about it. The interesting thing about this project is that we are basing all of our stories off of Google’s Search Engine Hot Trends which updates 4-5 times every hour with the top 100 searches across the Google Search Network.

This has really enabled us to make relevant posts and start seeing pretty decent traffic the day after we write these posts. Couple that with some social media marketing (posting links on niche related blogs & forums, facebook, myspace, technorati, etc), a Digg release, and video branding coupled with proper keyword research, engaging, keyword-rich articles, and a little luck the sky is the limit for NewsNow.

We officially launched News Now on January 20th, 2009 (only 3 days ago) and have seen 169 visitors with over 44% coming from organic search engine traffic averaging 2.51 pageviews and an average time of 2:59 on the site. See the image below for further information.