Websites Referring Traffic To Newspaper Sites
Posted: November 25th, 2009.
News Corp has been vociferous in recent times about Google “stealing” their news content and are now planning to deindex from Google News and instead sign up to provide access to Bing users wherein Microsoft shall pay for access. Does that make sense? No. Why? Check the average percent of online newspaper traffic referred by these various websites
Google : 16.36%
Google News : 5.17%
Facebook : 3.57%
Yahoo Mail : 3.24%
Yahoo : 3.17%
Drudge Report : 3.10%
Yahoo Search : 2.67%
Bing : 2.17%
Gmail : 1.81%
Windows Live Mail : 1.42%
Now, for WSJ specifically, here is the traffic referred from Google properties
Google : 15.3%
Google News : 11.0%
Keep yourself updated on all the technology news by following us on Twitter or by joining us on our Facebook Page.
Pingback from Content Theft From Online Newspapers — Tech Crunchies – Internet Statistics and Numbers
Time December 5, 2009 at 6:08 am
[...] you were wondering why Rupert Murdoch is so vehemently against allowing Google News to show his news, here’s why. A study conducted by Fair Syndication Consortium looked into the issue of [...]