Online Traffic- Blogging

Blogging and Internet information distribution exploding.

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From the Washington Post
New Trends In Online Traffic
Visits to Sites for Blogging, Local Information and Social Networks Drive Web Growth

While growth is slowing at most top Internet sites, it is skyrocketing at sites focused on social networking, blogging and local information . . . The number of monthly visitors to each site rose at rates ranging from 185 percent (Citysearch) to 528 percent (Blogger.com) between February 2005 and February 2006.

50 million U.S. Internet users visited blog sites in the first quarter of 2005. That is roughly 30% of all U.S. Internet users and 1 in 6 of the total U.S. population.

Five hosting services for blogs each had more than 5 million unique visitors in that period,and four individual blogs had more than 1 million visitors each.

Of 400 of the biggest blogs observed, segmented by seven (nonexclusive) categories,political blogs were the most popular . . .

Top-ranked sites growing the most, ComScore's data showed, were Blogger.com, a personal publishing site; MySpace.com, where young people do virtual preening and share musical tastes; Wikipedia, an open reference site jointly edited by millions of people; and Citysearch, a network of local guides focused on cities."












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From MySpace influencers and the virtues of linking at Investors.com:
"Traffic to Technorati doubled to 1.8 million unique visitors in March from 962,000 in February, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. Technorati CEO and co-founder David Sifry visited the MarketWatch studios earlier this week to explain why his service saw such explosive growth in traffic in a month's time.

Thanks to Billman at Whiskey Bar: