Michael Martinez researched June 2008 Blog Search Market Share per Quantcast. I think this is very important information to all edubloggers
And what about blog search, while we’re peeking under the search services hoods? Which ones are giving Technorati a run for their money? I found four other services with significant traffic. I would say there is considerable room for improvement here, but it may be that WordPress and Blogger are sucking the wind out of blog search’s sails with their on-site search tools.
June 2008 Blog Search Market Share by Visitors
1. Technorati.com 5,000,000
2. Feedburner.com 2,900,000
3. Blogcatalog.com 2,100,000
4. Blogsearch.google.com 853,887
5. Bloglines.com 496,112According to Quantcast, WordPress.com received over 21 million U.S. visitors in June (more than 87 million worldwide). They provide a much less specific estimate of 42 million visitors for Blogspot. If you’re interested in leveraging the blogosphere for search, here are a few tips:
1. Don’t use Blogsearch for link research (it’s no more reliable than Google’s Web search)
2. Don’t overlook the value of hosting sites on WordPress and Blogger (Blogspot)
I didn’t know that the directory Blogcatalog.com had so many visitors. It is my experience that Blogsearch.google.com brings me many visitors to my blog. Finally, hosting my Onlinesapiens edublog on wordpress.com, brings me many visitors from their tagged search. It doesn’t surprise me then, the high number of visitors to wordpress.com.I don’t have any experience with edubloggers and blogspot traffic.
Would you like to share your experience?
