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Digital Gold Currency Visitor Traffic - Who’s On The rise? Is e-gold Still The Leader?

by Mark on October 1st, 2007

Thanks to Compete.com we can see that the visitor traffic for e-gold has been dropping off since December 2006.

At present, e-gold is showing a loss of just about 12% in ‘visitor’ traffic for this last August compared to the month earlier - July. During the past 12 months, e-gold’s traffic hit a high of around 450,000 in December but is now only showing about 180,000 visitors in August. This is less than half the number of happy e-gold visitors that occurred just 6 months earlier. Are you confused yet? Just look at the nice chart, is heading downward.

However, everyone knows that highs and lows are a part of any business.

What are ‘Visits’?

Visits are initiated when a user enters a site. As the user interacts with the site the visit is live. Visits are considered live until the user’s interaction with the site has ceased for a 30-minute period.

Now, when you plot and compare the closest competitors of e-gold, we can easily see that nobody even comes close to e-gold’s current traffic.

This next chart shows web traffic for the past twelve months and includes e-gold, e-bullion, Liberty Reserve, Webmoney and Pecunix. When viewing this chart, just in case you can’t see it, look at the very bottom line (lowest amount), LibertyReserve/Webmoney/Pecunix all occupy the space just surrounding that bottom -(zero)k- line until July when LR makes a nice move up.

Clearly e-gold has been the most active digital gold currency for years now, but may soon be giving up that spot to another…e-bullion might now be emerging in a top position and Liberty Reserve traffic is also on the rise.

It should be no surprise, if there is an exodus by the HYIP Ponzi crowd from e-gold, it now appears they are heading into Liberty Reserve. Of course, that is just my opinion.

Also I can’t believe that the Webmoney chart is very accurate simply because logging into a Webmoney account does not require a visit to their web site and also the fact they have over 4 million accounts open….that graph seems very low indeed. Take a look at these ‘Visitor’ numbers from Compete.com

While e-gold is down about 46% in the past year, Liberty Reserve is up over almost 2000% in the last twelve months with most of their growth occurred in just the past couple of months. In fact Liberty Reserve has been a real sleeper until just a few months ago.

Finally if we look at search engine saturation we can still see that e-gold is way out in the front with the greatest exposure of any competing digital currency. The numbers will always tell you the true story.

Search Engine Saturation simply refers to the number of pages a given search engine has in its index for your website domain. Not all search engines report this information but enough of them do to create some meaningful benchmarks for your search engine marketing campaigns.*http://www.marketleap.com/siteindex/default.htm

Remember Technorati?

From their web, “Technorati is the recognized authority on what’s happening on the World Live Web, right now. Technorati is currently tracking 107.7 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.”

What do the Technorati numbers from the blogosphere say about DGC social connections and links?

• 1,224,878 blog posts about e-gold
• 11,148 blog posts about e-bullion
• 6,649 blog posts about liberty reserve
• 579 blog posts about webmoney
• 563 blog posts about pecunix

Again, this confirms in a big way e-gold is the smiling 800 lb. gorilla in the room. I’m glad to see it!

Update 10/5

It was advised by a reader to check out Webmoney.ru instead of .com and here is a look below. Its a different measurement, “People Count” but shows a definite trend up for WM.

People Counts are also known as unique visitors - they only count a person once no matter how many times they visit a site in a given month.  People Counts are typically used to determine how popular a site is.

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