The big game provided the starting point to push traffic from the commercials broadcast during the Super Bowl to online destinations. Not all of those big names took advantage of the buzz as they could have.
Google Spikes YouTube Traffic
The rich get richer when it comes to YouTube and its market share of visits to entertainment sites tracked by Hitwise; thanks to Google including YouTube results in Google Video searches, that market share of visits jumped by 18.5 percent.
Does Your Site Deserve Targeted Traffic?
Have you noticed how entitled some people seem to feel about getting targeted, interested visitors to their sites?
Hillary Traffic Doubles Obama Traffic
Okay, so I may have been wrong when I said Hillary Clinton wasn’t as popular as some gym socks. That was based on a completely unscientific straw poll of every sensible person I know. Hitwise has data, though, that suggests otherwise. Traffic to Hillary’s website after her big announcement trounced Barack Obama’s website traffic.
Blogs Increase Online Newspapers Traffic
Blogs have given the nations top 10 newspaper sites a much-needed increase in traffic. Over the past year Web traffic to the blog pages of the top 10 online newspapers grew 210 percent. Over all the unique audience growth has increased by 9 percent in the past year. Unique visitors to blog pages accounted for 13 percent of Web traffic in December 2006. That’s up 9 percentage points from 4 percent in December 2005.
Video Syndication Equals Free Targeted Traffic
When article directories became the rage a few years ago, now with hundreds, even thousands of them all over the web, syndication became a serious business.
Employment Site Traffic Has Ups and Downs
The first week of a new year, people want two things overall: a new body and a new job. Last week we found out that on New Year’s Day, visits to dieting websites spiked by 57 percent. By the end of the week it seems all that dieting is going toward a new suit as visits to job site jump by 31 percent.
Accurately Predicting Potential Website Traffic
Wouldn’t it be useful if your SEM company could accurately predict how much organic search traffic they could get your organization?
2006 Holiday Ecommerce Traffic Up
According to new research from Hitwise average daily visits to ecommerce sites from Thanksgiving through the Thursday before Christmas were up 5.9 percent compared to 2005. The days with the single biggest increases over last year were Cyber Monday the first Monday after Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Day.
TechCrunch: Trend and Traffic
#1. Sorry for not blogging these past few days. My daily schedule has gone crazy.