From the monthly archives:
According to the latest figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), US online advertising revenues for the first six months of 2006 were approximately $7.9 billion, a 37% increase over the first half of 2005.
In addition, Internet advertising revenues totaled nearly $4.1 billion for the second quarter of 2006, representing a 36% [...]
{ 0 comments }
Hitwise US – Top 25 Popular Websites – August, 2006
This list features the most popular websites based on US Internet usage for August, 2006, ranked by market share of visits across all Hitwise industries.
www.myspace.com = 4.9%
mail.yahoo.com = 4.6%
www.yahoo.com = 4.24%
www.google.com = 3.88%
mail.myspace.com = 2.46%
www.hotmail.com = 2.32%
www.msn.com = 1.91% [...]
{ 0 comments }
According to comScore Media Metrics, online classified websites attracted 47% more users in July 2006 than in July of last year. Craigslist, which accounted for about half of the overall increased traffic, recorded a 99% jump in unique visitors alone.
– Read article in NY Times
Mary E. Archer is president and founder of Strategic Ranking LLC, [...]
{ 0 comments }
One of the first things you do in any Search Engine Optimization campaign is to determine whether your website is fully indexed by the major search engines. In order to do this, you first need to find out just how many pages your site contains. Xenu’s Link Sleuth is a free tool that can help [...]
{ 0 comments }
Local online advertising is going to enjoy another year of impressive growth in 2007, increasing 32% to $7.7 billion, according to a MediaPost report based on a Borrell Associates study.
The fastest-growing ad category, paid local search, is predicted to almost double to $1.8 billion — accounting for nearly a quarter of local online ad spending. [...]
{ 0 comments }
We see it everyday; websites developed in technologies that impede potential customers from finding your site in the search engines. One of the most common pitfalls, is using frames.
Why?Since frames consist of web pages embedded within other web pages, they end up generating multiple web addresses for each page on the site. As users navigate [...]
{ 0 comments }
