Yahoo Answers Down But Dominating Q&A
By: Manoj Jasra
2008-03-20
The market share of U.S. visits to a custom category of Question and Answer websites has increased 118 percent for the week ending Mar. 15, 2008, compared to the same week in 2007...
...Hitwise reported today. Over the past two years, U.S. visits to this category have increased 889 percent comparing Feb. 2008 versus Feb. 2006.
The most visited website within the Questions and Answers category last week was Yahoo! Answers (answers.yahoo.com), which received 74.05 percent of the market share of U.S. visits. Wiki.Answers.com was the second most visited website receiving 18.35 percent of visits, followed by Answerbag.com, which received 4.42 percent of visits. WikiAnswers, launched in June 2007 has seen its U.S. visits increase 125 percent comparing the week ending Jun. 9, 2007 versus Mar. 15, 2008.
| Top 5 Question and Answer Websites ranked by Market Share of U.S. Visits | Rank | Name | Domain | U.S. Visits w/e Mar. 15, 2008 | U.S. Visits w/e Mar. 17, 2007 | Percent Change | 1 | Yahoo! Answers | answers.yahoo.com | 74.05% | 94.25% | -21% | 2 | WikiAnswers | wiki.answers.com | 18.35% | NA | NA | 3 | Answerbag | www.answerbag.com | 4.51% | 2.46% | 83% | 4 | Ask MetaFilter | ask.metafilter.com | 1.80% | 1.88% | -4% | 5 | Askville | www.askville.com | 0.85% | 0.20% | 316% | | Note - the Hitwise data is based on a custom category of eight of the leading Answer websites ranked by U.S. market share of visits as defined by the IAB, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites. Hitwise categorizes websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context. The market share of visits percentage does not include traffic for all sub-domains of certain websites which could be reported on separately. | | Source: Hitwise |
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Manoj Jasra is a well respected search marketing veteran having been in the industry since 2002. Manoj currently serves as a Sr. Analyst on the web solutions team at Shaw Communications Inc. Manoj's role primarily consists of providing SEO/PPC and Web Analytics strategies in addition to business insight on Shaw's web properties. Previously, Manoj held the role of Director of Technology at Enquiro Search Solutions where he oversaw Enquiro's product development for search marketing solutions and acted as the lead on both SEO Training and Enquiro's Web Analytics approach.
Check out Manoj's well read blog, Web Analytics World, which focuses on his insight in Search Marketing, Mobile, Technology and of course, Web Analytics. You can contact Manoj at manoj.jasra@gmail.com
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