Dallas Internet Marketing » Misc http://www.dallasinternetmarketing.org Using SEO, PPC and Analytics to Help Dallas Area Businesses Grow Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:08:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc What Is The Most Internet Visible Dallas Neighborhood? http://www.dallasinternetmarketing.org/what-is-the-most-internet-visible-dallas-neighborhood/ http://www.dallasinternetmarketing.org/what-is-the-most-internet-visible-dallas-neighborhood/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:48:55 +0000 Zach Daniel http://www.dallasinternetmarketing.org/?p=252 What Dallas neighborhood has the best internet visibility? Well, I have put them through a gauntlet of tests, scored their performance and crowned a champion (see the bottom of the post :) !) I wanted to find out which of the neighborhoods I could find the most information about just through the internet.

How did I do it?

  1. I chose the communities that have neighborhood blogs on the Dallas Morning News website.
  2. I put them through a battery of tests.
  3. In each test, I searched for “neighborhood name, Texas” to try and weed out as many false positives as possible. While, this was also eliminated some true positives, I think it is the best methodology to get an accurate count.
  4. Neighborhoods were ranked on each test and awarded points (10 points for a first place finish on a test, 9 for a second and so on).
  5. After all the events, the winner has been named.

Event 1: Length of Wikipedia Page (in words)

What neighborhood had the lengthiest, most in depth Wikipedia page?

Dallas Neighborhood Wikipedia Page Length (words)
McKinney 2300
Allen 1825
Carrollton 1916
East Dallas 438
Farmer’s Branch 2028
Frisco 1934
Garland 3552
Irving 3174
Lewisville/Flowermound 2579
Mesquite 202
Oak Cliff 2365
Park Cities 415
Plano 3883
Richardson 6749
Rockwall/Rowlett 1498

After the first event, Richardson breaks into the lead.

Event 2: Technorati Blog Results

Technorati is a search engine for blogs. To try and weed out as many false positives as possible, I searched “Neighborhood Name, Texas” to get the best results:

Dallas Neighborhood Technorati Blogs Results
McKinney 100
Allen 27
Carrollton 101
East Dallas 0
Farmer’s Branch 0
Frisco 90
Garland 109
Irving 471
Lewisville/Flowermound 1
Mesquite 61
Oak Cliff 4
Park Cities 0
Plano 416
Richardson 117
Rockwall/Rowlett 16

In the second event, Irving just nudges out Plano.

Event 3: Google Blog Searches

Again I am looking for which neighborhood has the best presence in the blogosphere:

Dallas Neighborhood Google Blog Search
McKinney 7,833
Allen 3058
Carrollton 2,894
East Dallas 1,813
Farmer’s Branch 35
Frisco 9,470
Garland 4,681
Irving 16,325
Lewisville/Flowermound 1,848
Mesquite 2,604
Oak Cliff 69
Park Cities 4
Plano 25,610
Richardson 4,600
Rockwall/Rowlett 2,424

And Plano takes its first event!

Event 4: The Neighborhood History Search

This event will reveal how many web pages are specifically devoted to the history of each neighborhood.

Dallas Neighborhood History
McKinney 13
Allen 11
Carrollton 9
East Dallas 10
Farmer’s Branch 16
Frisco 10
Garland 8
Irving 8
Lewisville/Flowermound 8
Mesquite 12
Oak Cliff 10
Park Cities 10
Plano 19
Richardson 8
Rockwall/Rowlett 9

Plano is the first neighborhood to two victories.

Event 5: Neighborhood Sports Search

Which neighborhood had the most web pages devoted to sports in the area:

Dallas Neighborhood Sports
McKinney 4
Allen 8
Carrollton 15
East Dallas 10
Farmer’s Branch 1
Frisco 18
Garland 9
Irving 13
Lewisville/Flowermound 3
Mesquite 9
Oak Cliff 10
Park Cities 10
Plano 30
Richardson 7
Rockwall/Rowlett 5

Plano again races to another victory.

Event 6: Flikr Photos

Which neighborhood had the most photos uploaded on Flikr?

Dallas Neighborhood Flikr Photos
McKinney 1790
Allen 1289
Carrollton 728
East Dallas 13
Farmer’s Branch 5
Frisco 2063
Garland 776
Irving 2144
Lewisville/Flowermound 158
Mesquite 670
Oak Cliff 429
Park Cities 3
Plano 2907
Richardson 898
Rockwall/Rowlett 437

And the winner is, again, Plano.

Event 7: Facebook Groups

Dallas Neighborhood Facebook
McKinney 125
Allen 197
Carrollton 58
East Dallas 106
Farmer’s Branch 12
Frisco 125
Garland 94
Irving 119
Lewisville/Flowermound 52
Mesquite 66
Oak Cliff 36
Park Cities 23
Plano 254
Richardson 138
Rockwall/Rowlett 60

Plano wins again. This is starting to be a landslide!

Event 8: Youtube Videos

Dallas Neighborhood YouTube
McKinney 538
Allen 648
Carrollton 406
East Dallas 34
Farmer’s Branch 67
Frisco 1320
Garland 586
Irving 1210
Lewisville/Flowermound 206
Mesquite 1180
Oak Cliff 70
Park Cities 2
Plano 3660
Richardson 582
Rockwall/Rowlett 561

And suprise, surprise, Plano wins again.

And so, at the end of the competition, the scores are as follows:

Place Neighborhood Total Points
1 Plano 118
2 Irving 94
3 Frisco 91
4 Richardson 79
5 Farmer’s Branch 31
6 Garland 76
7 Allen 75
8 Carrollton 62
9 Mesquite 54
10 Oak Cliff 50
11 Rockwall 47
12 East Dallas 41
13 Flowermound 39
14 Farmer’s Branch 31
15 Park Cities 28

And the winner is…..

Plano- the most internet visible Dallas neighborhood in 2009!

Do you think Plano is the real winner? Do you think Park Cities is really last place?

I am turning the comments off on this post to try and create some internet discussion- so if you have a blog, website, facebook page or whatever get on there and stir the pot on which Dallas neighborhood is the most internet visible in 2009!

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