According to NetCraft, a October 2005 survey yielded responses from 74,409,971 sites. During the height of the dot-com boom in 2000, the annual mark of 16 million. In comparison, 2005 added 17.5 million sites, the strongest year ever. While the dot-com bubble may have burst, the interest and involvement of people and businesses in all things online is at an all-time high. … [Read more...] about Exploding Web Growth
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RSS Findings by Yahoo
Yahoo just released a whitepaper on RSS usage [pdf] and a publishers guide to rss. A summary of their RSS findings are: • Awareness of RSS is quite low among Internet users. 12% of users are aware of RSS, and 4% have knowingly used RSS. • 27% of Internet users consume RSS syndicated content on personalized start pages (e.g., My Yahoo!, My MSN) without knowing that RSS … [Read more...] about RSS Findings by Yahoo
UK Online Advertising Figures
According to BBC News, studies by the Internet Advertising Bureau(IAB) show that UK online ad values could surpass the £1bn mark in 2005. Online advertising revenue increased 62% to £490m for the first half of 2005. The studies further show that online advertising accounts for 5.8% of overall advertising expenditure in the UK. They attribute the large growth to faster … [Read more...] about UK Online Advertising Figures
Google Launching Classifieds
Classified advertising is a $100 billion-plus industry worldwide. With such a lucrative market, Google is in talks to launch classifieds via partners like Classified Intelligence according to its news release. Google is also seeking classified advertising sites like CareerBuilder and Adicio for direct feeds of listings which would complete its local coverage in search … [Read more...] about Google Launching Classifieds
Being in Number One Position
How important is it to optimize your site for the number one position (or as close to number one as possible)? Well, in a recent report by Thorsten Joachims at Cornell on the recent study of click-through data[PDF], it becomes *very* clear being number one makes a HUGE difference in click-through-rates and therefore your profitability. Jakob Nielsen explains more in his … [Read more...] about Being in Number One Position