On Friday we received an interesting email from Gary Hazlitt pointing out how well Australian business presences are doing in relation to their international counterparts. We’re fully aware that the Traffic statistic provided by Linden is indicative at best, but even so the performance of Australian businesses is impressive (Australian sites in bold).
Pondex Sandbox 5669
BigPond Welcome 5262
ABC Sandbox 4723
L Word Amphitheatre 4529
BigPond Billabong Bar 3151
L Word Welcome area 2348
Nissan 2304
IBM Main island 1893
American Apparel 1782Â
Sony Ericcson 1273
Apple Store 873
BigPond Club Illusion 820
Reuters 820
AOL 811
PA Consulting 803
BigPond Shopping Dome 702
BigPond Pyramid Spa 663
Dell Island 598
BMW 562
Sony Media Island 402
ABC Welcome area 392
BigPond Harbour Bridge 375
ABC Triple J 247
Sony BMG Music Ent 222
Text 100Â 183
Starwood Hotels 158
The comparative performance of Australian business presences is significant albeit due to the recent BigPond and ABC builds. Even at SLOz HQ we exceed a number of others (we were sitting at 578 at time of publication) so no complaints here either…
Correction: earlier today this article was published including live site visit stats compiled by SLOz based on visits to the sites today. These are obviously very different to the rolling average displayed on search results. This could have led to misinterpretations of the data suppplied by Gary Hazlitt so we’ve withdrawn those.
Is it terribly surprising that if you give people something to do that they will visit? Brand recognition plus entertainment is a pretty good recipe for success. Telstra is about the only corp that has really kenned SL’s true potential. Renting out space to vendors at the Dome was the true master stroke. Not only do they get inworld revenue but it adds to the traffic. Whoever thought of that deserves a big fat bonus.
Is it terribly surprising that if you give people something to do that they will visit? Brand recognition plus entertainment is a pretty good recipe for success. Telstra is about the only corp that has really kenned SL’s true potential. Renting out space to vendors at the Dome was the true master stroke. Not only do they get inworld revenue but it adds to the traffic. Whoever thought of that deserves a big fat bonus.
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