For instance, there once was an agency who needed some buzz and pageviews.
And hot stock tips produce more pageviews than earnest lectures about mutual fund expense ratios.
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They are the simplistic, one-dimensional metrics we all know: pageviews, time on site, uniques.
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And Web analytics site Quantcast.com says Google Maps had an estimated 172 million pageviews in July.
But this phenomenon is hardly restricted to people in a desperate quest for pageviews.
For example, while we focus on lesson time, your site could focus on number of messages sent or pageviews.
But I noticed that the pageviews number was increasing more rapidly than normal.
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The mindless quest for pageviews has created an army of rewrite artists.
Manley's video reached over 500, 000 pageviews in six days, ending up at No. 66 on YouTube's "Most Viewed" videos channel for the week.
In the week since TwitChange has launched, King says its website has seen 3 million pageviews and its Twitter account has more than 4, 000 followers.
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Yet, thanks to a tremendously well-received performance, he added 100, 000 Twitter followers, 125, 000 Wikipedia pageviews and 1.7 million Vevo video views in the two days around the Grammys.
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The website hits nearly 4 million pageviews per month.
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For many who rely on Google's traffic, that disconnect comes as a surprise: In the past, a three-point drop in pagerank would signal a massive loss of pageviews from Google.
Like most meetings that involve an editor sitting down with someone who lives and dies by RPM and PageViews, we took turns constructively challenging one another: Content or Distribution?
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Many owners, including Ken Lopez of Washington, who started using social media to market his consulting business in 2011, tend to think the "value" of social media comes primarily from measurable factors, such as pageviews, click-throughs or direct sales.
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