Who Is Powering the Internet?

Amberly Dressler — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:30:00 GMT

That’s the question Flippa, a marketplace for buying and selling websites, looked to answer when the company took more than $26 million in transactions from the last 18 months (Oct. 2012) to work out what technologies are used to power the Internet, and how this has changed in the last 12 months.

The company’s findings should prove to be particularly useful and interesting to e-commerce startups, bloggers and digital marketers, as the data shows some mainstays for development and e-commerce falling by the wayside.

For example, in the e-commerce realm, the demand for eBay's Magento (read about their most recent updates here) and Yahoo Store continues to weaken at the expense of challengers such as Shopify and BigCommerce.

According to the data, Blogger also appears to be in perpetual decline, as for Content Management Systems, it accounted for the supply of just 1 percent of those transactions.

To read about the learnings from $26 million in website sales, click here.

Thirty-Plus Essential Blog Directories

Pete Prestipino — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:54:00 GMT

:: Take These Links to the Search Engine Bank ::

The most challenging aspect of developing a successful Internet promotional campaign is generating enough links (in both the short term and the long term) to garner a competitive listing on top algorithmic search engines.

It should come as no surprise that, despite search engines' efforts to emphasize recency, the explosion of chatter related to the value in social media, or the low cost/high return of e-mail marketing, the vast majority of consumers continue to use traditional search to initially locate topics of interest to them. That means building the number and quality of inbound links remains the most important project you will undertake as a Web professional.

Since more links equal more traffic, what you need are more links, right? Most sites are lacking enough links to make a difference when it comes to developing an ongoing stream of traffic to their site for the keywords they need to convert users to clients/readers/advocates, etc. Let's start changing all that.

If you have a weblog and are using it to promote yourself or your company, you'll need exposure. Submit your website to these 30-plus directories and you'll be on your way to taking higher search result pages listings to the bank. Readers will notice that the sites listed are in no particular order. Data is provided by Compete.com, Quantcast.com, Google (PageRank), Ranking.com, and Alexa.com.

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Blog Directory	Compete.com	Quantcast.com	Google PR	Ranking.com	Alexa.com
blogarama.com	72,614	170,855	2	233,834	30,318
blogcatalog.com	868	583	6	3,312	410
blogexplosion.com	58,840	372,365	5	244,371	20,841
blogflux.com	10,292	15,662	4	17,551	11,751
blogged.com	7,901	10,193	6	128,615	8,244
bloggeries.com	50,899	340,007	3	368,011	33,514
bloggerschoiceawards.com	46,796	212,325	5	368,015	27,663
bloghub.com	106,217	n/a	7	128,616	39,570
bloglisting.net	149,532	n/a	5	368,045	55,357
blogs-collection.com	394,358	n/a	3	368,074	65,926
bloguniverse.com	153,146	n/a	4	368,108	112,398
chordata.info	140,451	330,583	4	123,165	100,055
feedage.com	14,425	11,952	5	50,414	10,128
feedcat.net	95,704	1,515,726	5	399,022	31,632
feedfury.com	46,594	32,111	3	39,748	15,029
feedplex.com	376,050	n/a	5	124,983	97,853
globeofblogs.com	102,121	345,006	7	154,040	44,807
gobignetwork.com	17,064	18,907	7	31,820	30,129
goldenfeed.com	183,059	n/a	3	234,798	81,730
icerocket.com	10,531	12,632	6	40,271	13,978
info-listings.com	141,701	n/a	6	107,702	30,450
lsblogs.com	250,514	n/a	4	101,509	64,962
millionrss.com	64,503	329,191	5	97,571	21,264
plazoo.com	124,674	n/a	6	279,025	28,945
readablog.com	69,470	40,768	4	466,892	49,329
sportsblogs.org	271,770	n/a	4	481,463	216,058
technorati.com	469	837	4	1,754	647
topblogarea.com	7,833	6043	3	13,735	6,680
bloghints.com	177,600	n/a	5	n/a	35,665
bloggapedia.com	68,154	301,830	6	n/a	37,673
blogville.us	250,200	n/a	4	n/a	55,943
bestblogs.org	608,932	n/a	4	n/a	256,919
spillbean.com	462,523	n/a	2	n/a	160,810
bloggernity.com	156,402	n/a	6	n/a	40,939
blogrankings.com	88,880	n/a	4	n/a	28,447
quickblogdirectory.com	827,092	n/a	4	n/a	331,866
weblogalot.com	102,245	603,433	6	n/a	67,125

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Who Is Powering the Internet?

Thirty-Plus Essential Blog Directories