YouTube Announces That It Has Hit One Billion Monthly Users, Which Is Roughly Ten Super Bowl Audiences

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Today, YouTube announced that it has hit a billion monthly users, which is an extremely insane metric. We know that YouTube is the go-to place for silly, interesting and important videos, but these numbers are something that even TV networks dream of.

The great part for YouTube is that this means that online video ad-spend will go up, since the eyeballs appear to be ready, willing and able. It’s not only advertisers that are rushing YouTube, budding music artists are heading there too, and making a career from the attention that they get.

Fueling this insane growth is the availability of YouTube on all devices, plus a growing interest from “Generation C,” which happens to love to curate. That content curation means that people are sitting in front of their device and watching video after video with genres that range from politics to cartoons.

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Biggest Websites In The United States

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You know Google is huge.

Facebook, too.

You probably remember Yahoo.

Amazon is massive, of course.

And oh yeah, eBay!

But we bet you can't name the other 15 biggest Internet Web sites … in order.

We can, thanks to ComScore, which provided us data on December 2012's most popular Web domains in the US.

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Effective Tips to Gain Large Number of Visitors Online

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t has been a big curiosity among web masters. The methodology of generating a large pool of online visitors at websites is still somewhere hidden or undisclosed to us, but now you can understand the method of increasing online visitors of your official brand website in a simple manner. Online traffic is a soul to every business oriented website as well as for not for profit websites. Because, the real objective of a website is to communicate & interact and facilitate its targeted audiences, but the cyber competition is reaching to its peak and you cannot compete with leading brands while using decade old technologies. Thus, you have a need to gear up your website with latest technologies, specifically designed User interface, and innovative customer centric tools. Drupal is a one stop solution for all such needs, you can make use of its search engine friendly architecture & pre-written coding templates to develop specific tools in the website. In this article, we will focus on the way of generating higher Google ranking by converting PSD to Drupal based website.

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What Makes Visitor Leave A Website? [Infographic]

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Attracting a potential customer is hard enough. Grabbing their interest and retaining them is even more difficult. It’s important to design your site so that user frustration is kept to a minimum, thereby maximizing customer retention. Below are infographic that show some exemples of what not to do when designing your website.

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Most Visited Cities In The World 2012

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In the MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index, London leads the world as both the most popular destination city for overseas travelers, and in the average amount each visitor spends. Whether drawn by business or as tourists, London's visitors from New York are the ones that travel the furthest and spend the most. Shown here: Houses of Parliament and Lambert Bridge.

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A World Map of the Most Visited Websites

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This world map represents the most popular websites by country. No big surprises here as Google reigns supreme in most parts of the world followed by Facebook. Yahoo is still the most visited website in Japan and Congo while Baidu is the Google of China in every sense.

The data was arrived from the Alexa rankings of websites per country but there are other ways to estimate traffic ranks and they should paint a similar picture. A larger version of the map is available at The Atlantic.

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HOLY COW: Pinterest Now Has 17.8 Million Visitors Each Month

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Pinterest's traffic rose 52 percent between January and February, from 11.7 million unique visitors in January to 17.8 million in February, according to a new report by comScore.

Pinterest had around 7.5 million monthly visitors in December before jumping to 11.7 million in January.

On Pinterest, users can "pin" links on the site, which will automatically scrape an image and serve as a link on a grid of images on the site. It's broken into different "pinboards," — discrete sections on the site.

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How to Turn Website Visitors into Customers for Your Creative Business

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So you're attracting lots of visitors to your website. But if you're a freelancer or running a creative business, you need those visitors to become clients and customers. Otherwise your site is like a bucket with a hole - draining away your time and money.

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