| Blogging boom continues in Singapore as Blogger.com gains ground |
Singapore's infatuation with online blogging has picked up the pace this month, with U.S. blog monolith Blogger.com (www.blogger.com) reaching it's highest-ever rank on Hitwise.
The site, which allows users to publish their diaries and blogs online, was ranked the 16th most popular site in Singapore during the week ending November 18.
This represents an increase in popularity of more than 200% since January this year, when Blogger.com occupied a position of 38 amongst all sites monitored by Hitwise.
Blogger.com is also the top-ranked site in the Hitwise Lifestyle - Blogs & Personal Websites category, claiming a massive 37% market share out of all sites in the online blogging sector. LiveJournal (www.livejournal.com) trails a far second, with just over 8% market share.
Singapore's top personal blog, Xiaxue.blogspot.com (www.xiaxue.blogspot.com) is hosted by Blogger.com and ranks #6 out of all blogging sites and personal websites tracked by Hitwise Singapore. The blog's author, a 21-year-old Singaporean woman, claims to be a full-time blogger whose income is generated solely through advertising on her immensely popular blog.
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| Business and Finance - Freight and Storage |
The following report lists the most popular terms typed into a search engine over the 24 weeks ending 25/11/2006 that resulted in traffic to websites classified by Hitwise within the 'Business and Finance - Freight and Storage' industry.
For example, the most popular search term was 'singapore post' representing 8.33% of all search terms that delivered users to websites classified by Hitwise in the 'Business and Finance - Freight and Storage' industry.
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singapore post |
8.33 |
| 2. |
singpost |
6.83 |
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dhl |
3.85 |
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fedex |
3.39 |
| 5. |
postal code |
1.97 |
| 6. |
ups |
1.66 |
| 7. |
singapore postal code |
1.57 |
| 8. |
singapore post office |
1.42 |
| 9. |
dhl tracking |
1.02 |
| 10. |
dhl singapore |
0.97 |
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| Sexpo Singapore 2006 - www.sexpo.com.sg |
Position for week ending November 4: 15,675
Position for week ending November 18: 1,924
Positions jumped: 13,751
Singapore's second annual Sexpo exhibition has been attracting a lot of online attention this month, and the official Sexpo website (www.sexpo.com.sg) has been one of Singapore's fastest moving websites on Hitwise during November.
The exhibition, which features a range of lifestyle, health and retail exhibits, takes place between 24th and 26th November at Singapore's Suntec Hall, and the two weeks leading up to the event has seen the site's rank increase by more than 800%.
Sexpo.com.sg has leapt from a rank of less than 15,000 for the week ending November 4, into the top 2,000 sites tracked by Hitwise Singapore in the week ending November 18.
The site has also jumped from #14 to #2 in the Hitwise Shopping & Classifieds - Intimate Apparel & Accessories category, where it currently claims more than 12% of market share. The #1 site in the category belongs to American lingerie giant Victoria's Secret, www.victoriassecret.com.
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| Entertainment - Television |
Any sites related to TV are listed in this category, including the official websites of TV shows, television stations, ratings guides, program TV production companies and cable information. The data below is based on All sites » Weekly rankings for the week ending 25/11/2006 » Ranks by 'Visits'.
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of traffic to this category was directed at domestic sites.
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Computers and Internet |
40.5% |
| 2. |
Entertainment |
23.1% |
| 3. |
Computers and Internet - Search Engines |
17.8% |
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Sports |
15.5% |
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Sports - Soccer |
13.1% |
| 6. |
Entertainment - Television |
9.6% |
| 7. |
News and Media |
8.8% |
| 8. |
Computers and Internet - Net Communities and Chat |
7.5% |
| 9. |
Business and Finance |
7.4% |
| 10. |
Computers and Internet - Portal Frontpages |
6.6% |
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| 1. |
Computers and Internet |
28.7% |
| 2. |
Entertainment |
27.2% |
| 3. |
Sports |
12.4% |
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Entertainment - Television |
11.7% |
| 5. |
News and Media |
11.6% |
| 6. |
Business and Finance |
11.1% |
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Sports - Soccer |
9.5% |
| 8. |
Computers and Internet - Net Communities and Chat |
8.3% |
| 9. |
Computers and Internet - Search Engines |
6.6% |
| 10. |
News and Media - Print |
6.1% |
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