Damon Segal - The Internet Marketing Specialist

The Internet Marketing Specialist

Damon Segal has been marketing for over 20 years. Since 1996 Damon has been focused on internet marketing and the broad spectrum that encompasses from search engine optimisation and pay per click to affiliate marketing and social media optimisation. Professional speaker, author, and consultant Damon continues to push the boundries of online marketing on a daily basis. This is a collection of short ideas and findings.

Friday 30 January 2009

Facebook hits 222 million visits!

Facebook.com grew a dramatic 127 percent in the past year to 222 million visitors in December, and now ranks as the top social networking site worldwide.

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook Inc. is also the seventh most popular Internet property in the world, according to ComScore, which reported that the worldwide Internet audience above the age of 15 crossed 1 billion last month.

The most popular destinations in December Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) sites, with 777.9 million visitors, followed by Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), AOL, Wikimedia, and Ebay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY).

Fox Interactive Media, owner of MySpace, which was surpassed by Facebook in April, came in 10th with 172.8 million visitors. The Asia-Pacific region accounted for the highest share of global Internet users at 41 percent, followed by Europe, with 28 percent, North America with 18 percent share, Latin America, with 7 percent, and the Middle East and Africa with 5 percent. China represented the largest online audience, with 180 million Internet users, or almost 18 percent of the total worldwide audience, followed by the U.S. with 16.2 percent, Japan with 6 percent, Germany with 3.7 percent and the U.K. with 3.6 percent.

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