The Winners Of The Latest Goog Update

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Popeater.com ? 24 percent increase

Popeater is an AOL property specializing in celebrity gossip of the moment. AOL affiliate TMZ is extremely similar to the site, although TMZ drives significantly more traffic than PopEater does. The site?s Alexa traffic ran is 272.

DHGate.com ? 23 percent increase

This wholesale online retailer describes itself as an ?e-commerce marketplace that has revolutionized global trade with China.? The site allows consumers to purchase items directly from Chinese manufacturers, and sells everything from tablets to prom dresses. However, it has an Alexa traffic rank of 1,328, and approximately 36 percent of its traffic views are one page only. Until last week, the average time spent on its site was steadily decreasing.

Instructables.com ? 21 percent increase

Instructables is like eHow, but with videos. It?s similar to Mahalo, which actually was noticeably damaged by the Google algorithm adjustment. It has an Alexa traffic rank of 648, and while it gained more pageviews after the search alternations, its rank has been dropping since.

Sears.com ? 20 percent increase

This site should need no explanation. The retailer?s site has an Alexa traffic rank of 213, but oddly enough, since February 28 (four days after Google implemented its changes) its traffic has taken a nosedive.

Softpedia.com ? 20 percent increase

This online library is full of free and trial software for various operating systems. It also offers instructions and self-help tech articles.

Dailymotion.com ? 19 percent increase

Dailymotion is a French-based, English-language site offering online video publishing and sharing. Its content primarily focuses on pop culture, film, and music, although there are also video blogs and categories such as sports and news. In France, the site is extremely popular, and even globally it earns an Alexa ranking of 109.

Scribd.com ? 18 percent

Scribd is an online platform for uploading and downloading text to the PC, tablet, or phone. It?s been a largely well-reviewed site, and one that?s only been around since 2007. In 2009, it launched its branded reader for large companies like The New York Times and TechCrunch, and the feature has been very popular. However the site has had legal troubles regarding copyright infringement and was accused of publishing pirated content and taking advantage of writers. It has an Alexa traffic rank of 312, and its bounce rate has been climbing slowly over the last six months.

Britannica.com ? 18 percent

Here?s another that needs no introduction. The online encyclopedia began offering many of its articles for free (provided they were linked from an outside source) in the last few years to improve page rank. The site is strangely popular in Nigeria, and most of its visits are bounces. It has an Alexa traffic rank of 2,740.

Techbargains.com ? 17 percent

An online electronics vendor that is fairly reputable and retains its visitors for an average of two minutes per visit to the site. It?s traffic rank seems to jump around a lot, but for a niche shopping site that isn?t terribly surprising. It has an Alexa traffic rank of 1,302 (401 in San Francisco, big surprise), and continues to see itself increasingly show up in search results since Feb. 25.

Epinions.com ? 17 percent

Epinions is a property of Shopping.com, and claims to offer to ?unbiased reviews by real people.? Shopping.com is owned by eBay, which also received a boost from the Google search update. Epinions has a bounce rate of 67 percent and an Alexa traffic rank of 805. It experienced a significant increase in overall stats, but since the 27 has seen its traffic, pageviews, and time spend on site decrease. However, after getting a boost in showing up in search results last week, it?s starting to dive.

A few other intriguing winners were Photobucket, Facebook, and Google property Blogspot (go figure). EHow didn?t quite crack the top 10, coming in at the 16 spot. It did, however, earn a 15 percent traffic increase. But from the looks of it, sites that weren?t performing well prior to Google?s search changes may be heading for the same fate, so you have to hope the Internet titan is making the required adjustments it says it is.

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