Thursday, February 11, 2010

Getting Hit by the Slashdot Effect ... Would You Mind?

Web Traffic reports:

Commentary: Recalls send Web traffic to Korean car makers

MarketWatch
This migration is also evident in recent Web traffic. According to TrueCar.com, the number of hits on the Hyundai Sonata since Toyota's latest round of ...
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Folio Magazine
SI.com's Swimsuit Package Draws Site's Second-Biggest Traffic Day

Folio Magazine
... said Tuesday was the site's second-highest trafficked day (behind the February 15, 2007 Swimsuit Issue unveiling), with 3.633 million unique visitors. ...
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New Web site will help visitors explore, enjoy Holland

HollandSentinel.com
Visitors to the site can “Ask a Hollander,” take a Holland Aptitude Test that quizzes them about positive Holland facts and download a calendar “widget. ...
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Los Angeles Times
MySpace chief executive resigns

Los Angeles Times
At the time Van Natta joined MySpace, the site's traffic was stagnating -- a trend he was unable to reverse. In December, it attracted 70 million visitors, ...
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Facebook Still Rules, But Rivals Gain Share

PC World
Twitter finished the year with nearly 20 million visitors to its website, up from just 2 million visitors from the previous year. ...
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PR Web (press release)
New Orleans Saints' Web Site Hosts Record Number of Visitors Bolstered by ...

PR Web (press release)
After the Saints won the Super Bowl, their website traffic reached an all-time high. Although unsurprised, we were pleased that our infrastructure handled ...
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Prime Writer News Network
Federal government closed Thursday, February 11, 2010; update to OPM.gov website

Prime Writer News Network
The e-QIP sit splits the amount of traffic the web server receives. You can access the temporary website here: e-QIP. The OPM.gov website is for one day ...
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New Video Exposes Buy Website Traffic Scam

WebWire (press release)
The vast majority of people looking to buy web site traffic are being conned or being sold something that is utterly useless. Being able to purchase traffic ...
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VentureBeat
Bing, Google stalled in battle for market share

VentureBeat
Web traffic analytics firm Hitwise reports that in January, Google's measured market share dropped about one percent from December. ...
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ComScore 4Q Profit Falls, Buys Ad Research Firm

ABC News
AP ComScore Inc., which tracks Web site traffic, on Wednesday said fourth-quarter earnings fell by 92 percent mainly due to a hefty tax gain recorded in the ...
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ActivEngage Releases ActivProspect to Target Auto Dealers' Hottest Website ...

PR Web (press release)
Based on click paths and behavioral targeting, ActivProspect pre-qualifies site visitors as prospective chats. This allows busy dealerships to more ...
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Increase Website Traffic and Ranking with a Free Link Building Campaign

PR Web (press release)
Building links is one of the most important factors for a successful website. Link building is a powerful technique that can significantly increase traffic ...
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Traffic Builds Over Holidays For GiftZip.com

WWJ
GiftZip.com, the East Lansing-based online eGift card kiosk developer, said Wednesday that its holiday season was marked by growing site traffic and sales. ...
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SolarWinds Improves Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's Performance and Usability

CNNMoney.com (press release)
Knowing that 60% of your bandwidth usage is web traffic is nice, but knowing what percentage is being used by social applications like Facebook versus ...
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New Olympic traffic map launched on web

BCLocalNews
By Jeff Nagel - BC Local News TransLink has unveiled a new online traffic conditions map to help residents plan their trips during the 2010 Winter Olympics. ...
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Cedar Rapids Mayor: HUD will pay 107 percent of flood damage

Mason City Globe Gazette
To make use of certain features on our websites (such as contests, story comments, personalized web pages and other interactive forums) visitors need to ...
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Sun's website is your most complete Olympic news source

Vancouver Sun
The most definitive coverage of local traffic, attractions, logistics and weather. The content can be delivered in a variety of formats: through the website ...
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Hackers disrupt Australian government Web sites

Newsday (subscription) (press release)
The attack flooded the sites with bogus traffic so legitimate visitors couldn't get through. newsday.com is now available at no charge to Newsday and ...
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Make Your Web Site a Search Engine Magnet

Modern Distribution Management
Since search engine marketing is all about attracting targeted traffic, begin by leveraging Web analytics to monitor traffic increases from search, ...
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Get Huge Traffic to Your Website with Article Marketing - Affiliate Marketing ...

Before It's News
Email me from my site. At the end of your article but usually in a separate resource box you can put your by-line (your name) and a few words about yourself ...
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£92m Bristol City FC stadium wins council vote

Bristol Evening Post
Most of the discussion among councillors were points of clarification on various issues such as site ecology, traffic, sustainability and legal agreements. ...
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Play LA Inc. Announces Launch of Redeveloped UK Sports News Website

Business Wire (press release)
As our revenues are closely tied to website traffic, we are optimistic about the effect these improvements will have on future revenue growth. ...
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PR-inside.com (press release)
SEO Companies India - An ultimate hub for SEO Outsourcing Services across the ...

PR-inside.com (press release)
2010-02-11 06:42:43 - Every website owner wants to increase online traffic in order to expand customer base and achieve higher conversion rates. ...
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Which mobile app stores are most lucrative for developers?

VentureBeat
(Tie) Google Android Market: There is no web storefront and no way to drive your own web traffic to your apps. The Windows Marketplace web storefront has ...
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NWI nature sites mapped on Internet

Gary Post Tribune
The Greenways and Blueways Web site allows visitors to virtually "fly over" more than 150 nature sites in Northwest Indiana and provides information and ...
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Editorial: Scrap this site | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/11/2010

Philadelphia Inquirer
The eyesore, owned by Camden Iron & Metal Inc., greets visitors entering the city via the George C. Platt Bridge. It's right across from the pretzel vendors ...
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Toyota woes lead to bargains from rivals

MarketWatch
This approach has led to a big shift in interest as far as Web traffic. While the Camry's traffic numbers have dropped 39% since the recalls, the Optima has ...
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When A Stranger Calls: The Effect Of Agency Pitches On In-House SEO Programs

Search Engine Land (blog)
You don't pay unless you see an increase in search traffic, or the vendor is paid in proportion to a site's increased search traffic, either at a set rate ...
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AT&T Government Solutions Wins $5 Million Award from the Federal Trade Commission

PR Newswire (press release)
"Managing unexpected spikes in web site traffic volume and cyber attacks are key challenges for federal agencies," said Don Herring, senior vice president, ...
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Domain Name Wire » News » Domain Parking Coming to .Tel - The ...

Domain Parking Coming to .Tel. Wednesday, February 10th, 2010. Domains that aren 't used for web sites to get Google ads. It was only a matter of time, ...

Toyota's big Web traffic diversion MarketWatch First Take ...

It was bound to happen. Toyota's fall from grace is revaluing the entire automotive spectrum, from the show room right down to used car ads on Craigslist .

Tebow Ad Boosts Ministry's Web Traffic - US - CBN News - Christian ...

Focus on the Family is crediting their pro-life Super Bowl commercial featuring Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow for a huge upsurge in traffic to their Web ...

Blubrry - How Much Does An Iphone Cost - Online Iphone Guide ...

It is becoming more and more standard practice for domains that are registered and not being used to be looked after by a domain parking service company. ...

nanog: Re: black listing of web traffic

Re: black listing of web traffic Andrey Gordon (Feb 09); Re: black listing of web traffic Jim Shankland (Feb 09); Re: black listing of web traffic Jay ...

Increasing Traffic to Web Journalism: Increase Page Views With ...

Writing for the love of it is a great thing, and can bring incredible success, but for most web writing the key is to gather an audience with subjects of ...

"Adult Website: Traffic, Commission?" | MySpace Forums

"Adult Website: Traffic, Commission?" MySpace Forum. Discuss new topics, post a thread and comment on a message board.
Personas are 1-page, planning worksheets that profile the characteristics, concerns, and goals different categories of website visitors. Think of personas as composite views. They help you answer questions like: ...
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Washington state visitor centers await Olympic visitors | McClatchy

With people from all over the world descending for the Winter Olympics, the Bellingham, Wash. area, is gearing up to answer questions from visitors. extra description.
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Iran's “punch” heard round the world – emergency UN meetings ...

Is this a true network problem, or does Iran simply want a easy way to track all Web traffic and internal e-mail communications? Who knows. You've gotta figure the “big punch” to the arrogant west would have been announced earlier in ...
Radio Vice Online - http://radioviceonline.com/

How to Build Links, Increase Traffic and Exposure - Search Engine ...

Getting your company's content published on third-party Web sites helps generate links and increases traffic and exposure. Five tips for streamlining the process.
Search Engine Watch - http://searchenginewatch.com/

New website to combat 2010 cybercrime - South Africa - The Good News

Tuesday, 09 February 2010. The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) will ask the company marketing stab-proof vests to visitors of the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa to remove Unicef advertising from its website. ...
Your daily dose of good news! - http://www.sagoodnews.co.za/

The Alan Schaaf Interview – What Is Image Host Imgur, And How Did ...

By Alex Wilhelm
There were many scaling issues that I ran into due to the site's rapid growth. People often talk about the Slashdot effect, which is when a popular website links to another site, causing a massive increase in traffic that can slow the ...
The Next Web - http://thenextweb.com/tr/

Seth Godin Should Read His Own Book « blog maverick

By markcuban
TheBestPageInTheUniverse.com is a prime example of a website that, at the time, got more traffic than McDonalds' website that they spent billions advertising. All Mr. Maddox does on that site is rant about stuff he hates. ...
blog maverick - http://blogmaverick.com/


Mobile hardware reporting for your web sites | Clicky Blog

Today we finally made these optimizations so we're able to attach this data to your visitors now. However, these changes affect the way that filtering works for the following data types - browsers, os, organizations, and hostnames. ...
getclicky.com/blog - http://getclicky.com/blog/

Is Facebook going to take on Google with its own version of Adsense?

By Zee
Facebook's adsense product, which of course won't actually be called that, would leverage visitors' social streams and allow publishers and site owners to present ads relevant to what the user is interested in based on their ...
The Next Web Network - http://thenextweb.com/all/

Tips to make an SEO friendly shopping cart - Free website templates

By Simpson
But certain web developers advice to include tags like anchor title tags, for texts and images. Use of alt tags also increases the search engine traffic. Most of the search engine spiders, bots and crawlers look for alt tags. ...
Free website templates - http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/forum/

Educational Technology

By Ray
Web 2.0 is becoming more prevalent in classrooms. Bandwidth-heavy applications can impact the performance of other academic and educational network traffic. Exinda solved this problem for Andover Public Schools in Essex County, Mass., ...
Educational Technology - http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/blogger.html

PPC Magic for Keyword Research | Search Engine Journal

By Robert Enriquez
Nowadays, if a new client doesn't want to run a PPC campaign for their site, I don't work with them. It doesn't make sense to build a site and anchor text around a keyword that will never bring visitors and/or business. ...
Search Engine Journal - http://www.searchenginejournal.com/

The latest on MDAC's newsletter and website | MDAC

By mdacadmin
Visitors may also give direct feedback and view/write a comment directly under each news posts. Currently, we are working on launching a legal cases search database. Additionally, the new Archives button stocks past editions of MDAC's ...
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