I did a small comparisation of three of the best professional bloggers I know about: ShoeMoney.com, Problogger.net and JohnCow.com.
The funny thing is that all three of them had less then 50 000 visitors a year ago and now, at least two of them , got more then 200K visitors. This shows that it’s possible to build a popular blog in little more then a year if you’re good at what you do (i.e. writing in your blog and marketing your content).
The graph above is from Compete.com and shows that Problogger.net must be the most successful one of the three since his site has grown over 1600 % in one year! Lets just hope that the last months decrease is just something temporary due to summer or something .
Today when I checked the statistics at whois.xaviermedia.com I noticed that there are 4.8 billion new pages hosted on .com domain names. That’s almost as many pages there are on .org in total!!!!!
I’m not at all surpriced that .org is the second largest top level domain since they got Wikipedia.org and AboutUs.org hosting millions of pages. But I find it kind of surpricing that .edu is only found on 9th place and that .jp (Japan) is the third largest TLD if you count hosted pages.
The search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN are indexing more and more pages at AboutUs.org. If you look at the data from Marketleap.com you’ll see that about 14 million pages have been spidered by the three big search engines just on the domain www.aboutus.org.
Breakdown per search engine:
Yahoo!/ FAST/ AltaVista - 10,196,079 pages
Google/ AOL/ HotBot - 3,910,000 pages
MSN - 64,200 pages
Some of the pages have of course been indexed by all three search engines so I would guess that the total number of unique pages so far would be around 10 million, but that’s still impressive.
If we have a look at the historical perspective we’ll notice that the search engines found aboutus.org for real some time in 2007 when they found from less then a million pages up to 8 million pages.
So if you need the search engines to find your site then you should become a more active member in the aboutus.org community. If you need a kick-start to the basics of a Wiki, then checkout the Xavier Media blog.
Entrecard.com was launched in the end of 2007 and got more and more members and visitors. If you just look at the graph from Compete you’ll see that they’ve increased the number of visitors every month since the start.
Entrecard has been ever since the start about visiting pages and “dropping” your on the sites you visit, but now it looks like Entrecard will start punishing members for dropping. We know since before that if you drop to quickly you will get punished by removal of credits from your account, but now you may also get punished by dropping on certain pages. This is from the email sent to all Entrecard members:
Additionally, members dropping on “quick drop pages” may start receiving stiff credit penalties for every drop they do on quick drop pages, as it is not a visit to a blog and thus an illegal drop.
How do you as a dropper know if the site you drop your card on is not accepted within the Entrecard community? You can’t really for sure do that. Of course you can avoid dropping at the pages with just the Entrecard widget, but how do you know that the page you drop at got enough content to be accepted within the community? You can’t! Because of this I will for sure stop dropping at all sites to ensure that I don¨’t get punished.
Entrecard earlier this month announced that they wont accept religious organizations any more. All these changes to the TOS is fine with me, but they won’t give the users any chance to adapt to the changes i.e. they announce the changes just a few days before they are valid which means that members will get banned because they didn’t have time to adapt to the changes. This way Entrecard is instable like a dictatorship, the laws can change over night and what’s legal one day may be illegal the next without any chance of appeal. This will of course make the members tired and soon people will leave the sinking ship……
Another of Grahams projects is the MillionDollarWiki.com. If you don’t remember it I’m not exactly surprised since I can hardly remember it any more….. It’s anyway a wiki where you pay $100 for a page you can later resell (you can by the way get a free page at the much bigger wiki AboutUs.org if you just register your own domain name). As soon as MillionDollarWiki.com got enough sign ups the traffic dropped a lot making your invested $100 almost worthless. Just take a look at the Compete graph for MillionDollarWiki.com:
Dictatorships that change the rules over night and the history with Grahams earlier projects show us that Entrecard will hardly last. I’m really surprised that if they are still as popular as they where in May in the end of 2009. They may still exist like Blogrush, but at the declining part of the traffic graphs…..
Here’s something that could grow into something really cool if it gets more developed and gets more features: Google Trends for websites. It’s a function to look up how much traffic a site gets and where they are coming from. Please note that it’s just estimates and not the full truth!
To get numbers on your graph you need to login (it took me a while to figure that out). Here’s an example graph:
I’ve just created a temporary summer headquarter for Xavier Media so that we can stay at the office even during the most wounderful summer days . With a good WiFi network you can work virtually anywhere and still access servers, printers and data at the winter office while you enjoy the fantastic weather outside. Just check out this picture of the summer HQ:
Just to make sure we don’t feel too lost I’ve also added the Xavier Media logo:
I just checked the Alexa ratings for XavierMedia.com and noticed that we get 18.8% of our visitors from Nigeria (???). We’re ranked as 1199 in Nigeria which means that only 1198 sites are more popular then XavierMedia.com in Nigeria . Now to the big question how many Internet users are there in Nigeria?
The hottest search trend on the Internet today seems to be “How Americans Can Buy American” and the reason for this “hype” in searching seems to be two resent articles and one blog post written on this subject: How Americans Can Buy American, While Green
HULIQ (press release) - May 20, 2008
The question is how Americans Can buy American, supporting the economy and protecting the environment. Former 2008 republican presidential candidate Duncan …
The resurgence of ‘pocketbook patriotism’
MSNBC - May 20, 2008
Seeking out products on Web sites such as “How Americans Can Buy American” and “Still Made in USA,” plus auction forums such as eBay, these dedicated …
HOW AMERICANS CAN BUY AMERICAN!
Iam not really sure what is completely driving the “How Americans Can Buy American” phenomenon, but I really think it is a good thing because it brings people together and helps us realize that we are all a part of the process…whether … http://citizenhaines.wordpress.com
The common thing in these articles seems to be the fact that you should buy stuff you need as close to your home as possible from an environmental perspective since all kinds of transportation is poluting our planet somehow. To me it seems only fare: Americans buy American, Europeans buy European and Asians buy Asian
Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers out in the world. Did you know that Mother’s Day is not celebrated at the same day in all countries across the world? According to Wikipedia Mother’s Day on the second Sunday in May (i.e. today) is celebrated in Anguilla, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, People’s Republic of China,Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Honduras, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Latvia*, Malta, Malaysia, Myanmar, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Slovakia, South Africa, St. Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Singapore, Suriname, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
While for example Norway is celebrating Mother’s Day on the second Sunday in February, Georgia on the 3rd of March and Armenia on April 7th.
Some other countries like Algeria, Dominican Republic, France, Haiti, Mauritius, Morocco, Sweden and Tunisia got their Mother’s Day on the last Sunday in May and some Arab countries like Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Lebanon, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen celebrate it on the 21st of March.
Today’s most popular search in Google is “green apple festival”. According to Google it got it’s peak about 2 hours ago and is extremely popular search in Washington, DC, so it must be a local festival. By searching in Google I found out that it must be about the Green Apple Music Festival at greenapplemusicfestival.com. Unfortunately the site looked down when I tried to access it so I wasn’t able to figure out anything more about the festival
, got more then 200K visitors. This shows that it’s possible to build a popular blog in little more then a year if you’re good at what you do (i.e. writing in your blog and marketing your content).
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