If the line representing online video’s growth were a hill, even a Hummer might have trouble navigating it. According to new Hitwise stats, UK traffic to video sites increased 178 percent between the two most recent Februarys.
U.K. Online Properties Attract Global Traffic
A recent study from comScore on the global traffic to online properties in the U.K. found that online traffic coming from outside the U.K. outnumbered the domestic visitors to the BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times and The Daily Mail.
Real Estate Sites Drawing Traffic Due To Foreclosures
Real estate Web sites are featuring a growing number of homes that are in pre-foreclosure and foreclosure. In March, Yahoo Real Estate launched a site focused on foreclosures with Realty Trac broadening the reach of information to nearly 500 million global users. "The goal for you as a buyer is to purchase a property at least 20 percent below full market value, although better deals are often possible," reads Yahoo’s site.
Traffic Due To Super Bowl Ads Analyzed
An analysis of site traffic following the Super Bowl has been released, and a number of companies’ ads earned them huge increases in visitors. But others experienced more minor fluctuations, and a handful even seemed to get ignored.
The Irony of Mahalo Traffic Growth
A couple of weeks ago, Heather Hopkins at Hitwise noted that the human-powered Mahalo search engine has been showing a very strong curve of increasing traffic:
Newspaper Web Sites See Record Traffic
Monthly unique visitors to newspaper Web sites averaged 62.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2007, setting a record according to a new report by Nielsen Online for the Newspaper Association of America (NAA).
Average monthly unique audience figures for newspaper Web sites grew by more than 3.6, an increase of more than six percent over 2006 numbers. Unique visitors in the fourth quarter represented a nine percent increase over the same period a year ago (57.6 million).
Scientology Turns Into A Traffic Magnet
We know you want to stay on topic; we know you don’t want to resort to tabloid-style tricks. But we know you also want linkbait, and an excellent example of it has been identified in a new Hitwise post.
The Improved Reality of Parked Domain Traffic
For years many of us in the advertiser camp have yelled about the fact that vendors like Google AdWords lump domain traffic in with "search" traffic without giving you much control over the situation. A lot of this was justifiable yelling – but as with much about the content networks (and stuff that should be in the content network but was in the past classified as search), today’s reality seems to have improved.
What is Social Media Traffic Worth?
Fake Businesses Today I came across an AdWords ad for an automated ebook business model website. Their screenshot highlighting their Paypal account was: hosted on another site named powersell_paypal2.jpg did not show payments but showed withdrawals Fake Business Statistics A lot of (mis)marketing techniques are more covert though, through the use of
Did Web Traffic Predict The Iowa Caucus Results?
Is there a correlation between web traffic and the results of the Iowa Caucus? Well, maybe.Hitwise’s Heather Hopkins was half right a couple of days ago, all the way from England. Hopkins measured the Iowa traffic going to different candidate websites and yes indeed Barack Obama beat out Hillary Clinton.