All the social media voting sites such as Digg, Mixx, Delicious, Stumbleupon, etc, are generating buzz by delivering some amazing number of visitors to publishers who manage to make it to their home page. Interestingly, Yahoo recently entered the field of social bookmarking and voting (Feb 25). They have delivered record traffic to several websites that made it to their new BUZZ homepage. Here are some statistics, courtesy of Techcrunch:
- Yahoo says they’ve sent 16 million visitors to outside sites in the first two weeks!
- Salon.com had 1 million unique visitors on February 28th after getting on the home page of Buzz. This is a record high for the 12-year-old site.
- US Magazine had their second highest traffic day thanks to Yahoo Buzz, with 32% of visits that day coming from the Yahoo home page.
- Huffington Post reported 800,000 unique visitors from a Yahoo-linked story.
- Sugar, Inc. sites have had nearly 1.8 million unique visitors sent from five different Buzz stories on the Yahoo home page.
Yahoo has the traffic that puts all social media to shame. They have traditionally fared much better than Google when it comes to launching successful niche websites. No wonder Microsoft is head over heels after them!
