* Internet Marketing blog archive for January, 2009

2008 Top 100 US Retailers and their Website Traffic

We analyzed the 2008 top 100 US retailers (stores.org) and we ranked the retailers based on their web traffic (according to Alexa.com as per January 2009). The Traffic Rank is relative to the 100 Us retailers only. Some interesting facts:

- some department stores (ex., Ross Stores) could very easily sell products online, but they prefer not to.

- several website designs look like amateur work (Berkshire-Hathaway or Stater Bros.)

- corporate websites for companies marked with * tend to have lower traffic values, which is normal

- web sales values for a company ranking 10th can … Read more about 2008 Top 100 US Retailers and their Website Traffic

Alexa.com Hack (Image Hack)

Have you ever wanted to get a bigger image for your website traffic details from Alexa.com? Sometimes, when you go for a presentation, you may want to display something better than the default size of the image provided by Alexa.

Let’s say we take a look at the traffic details for www.canada.com – http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/canada.com. Now, the graph size is 470×300.

Here’s the how to hack the image: using Firefox, Click on the Rank tab, then right click on the image, and on View Image. This will display the image URL in your browser address bar. It may look like: http://widgets.alexa.com/traffic/graph/?r=6m&y=t&z=1&h=300&w=470&c=1&u%5B%5D= … Read more about Alexa.com Hack (Image Hack)

Our 2009 Resolution

It’s been more than a year since we’ve officially launched Pitstop Media’s website (www.pitstopmedia.com) and it was the time for a design update. For 2009, Pitstop Media’s website resolution will be 1024×768. That’s right, we have redesigned the company’s website to accommodate the market trends, based on our visitors’ screen resolutions (data taken with Google Analytics).

Redesigned Website for Pitstop Media

Redesigned Website for Pitstop Media

We are much happier with the new website design and I would like to congratulate everybody … Read more about Our 2009 Resolution