Rundown of the 'Hierarchy' of Social Media, with a Free Resource for Average Daily Viewer-Count of Any Website
posted May 10, 2009 - 9:34pmUncle MythMan says ...
Sure, I'm a multi-bazillion-gajillionaire (like most of the content-providers on the Internet); but 'money in the bank' doesn't mean anything if I'm not connected!
And to see how well-connected I might possibly become, I visit SiteBrain at http://www.linkbrander.com/go/76864 and looked up the 'average daily viewer-count' (ADVC) of each of a number of websites.
(NOTE FROM STATBRAIN: "Statbrain estimates the number of visits that a website has based on offsite factors like backlinks, Alexa Rank etc.
("Statbrain does not have access to log files or any counter information. The number of visits that Statbrain estimates gives you an idea of the number of visits that a website has, but not the exact visitor number.
("'Visits,' not 'unique visitors'
"The number that Statbrain estimates is 'visits.' The number is not the same as unique visitors which usually is a bit lower.")
I started out looking at the ADVCs of writing-networks like this one (keep in mind that I only used basic addresses, so the majority of the visitors estimated are more-than-likely to be 'content providers' who thus only contribute to the administrators' revenues).
Though I'm sure you know which site I searched first (Xomba.com), that site's estimated ADVC actually came in behind the 1,833,151 of AssociatedContent.com and the 169,727 of Helium.com with 153,448—followed by MyLot.com (133,642), Triond.com (14,530) and VoySpace.com (3,390).
I then searched the ADVCs of various other social-networks available—some offering revenue-sharing on the various content-types you can submit, all offering various methods by which you can connect your 'friends' there to the content on which you know you earn revenue.
These sites include: MySpace.com with an ADVC of 13,862,201, Yuwie.com with an ADVC of 46,358, Zion5.com with an ADVC of 8,769, MyViewin.com with an ADVC of 3,699, MyGizmoz.com with an ADVC of 189, and a good deal many more I'll deal with later.
(Obviously, somebody- and/or several somebodies-is/are 'getting money' with these operations–either in cash/credit-form or in the true 'currency of the realm'–or else each endeavor would crumble like a card-castle in the wind.)
