I ran across Clay Shirky's article
Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality and immediately thought of checking the stats on a few TagTooga.com pages.
Amazing what I found... In a nutshell, a power law distribution says that "in any system sorted by rank, the value for the Nth position will be 1/N. For whatever is being ranked -- income, links, traffic -- the value of second place will be half that of first place, and tenth place will be one-tenth of first place." I took a look at the "Julian Beever" page on TagTooga.com, and here's what I found:
1st item listed: 312 click-throughs.
2n item listed: 119 click-throughs (theoretical = 312/2 = 156)
3rd item listed: 85 click-throughs (theoretical = 312/3 = 104)
4th item listed: 73 click-throughs (theoretical = 312/4 = 78)
5th item listed: 64 click-throughs (theoretical = 312/5 = 62)
6th item listed: 52 click-throughs (theoretical = 312/6 = 52)
7th item listed: 37 click-throughs (theoretical = 312/7 = 44)
Here's a link to the
Julian Beever Page.
The page owned by the artist himself is (amazingly) 4th in the list. The 1st in the list isn't necessarily the best site, but was simply lucky to be listed first once the page started getting popular.
So... Now you know the value of being listed 1st, or 2nd, or 3rd, etc. on Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, or anywhere else...