Monday, November 12, 2007

So very very confused about a number of things

first, this traffic chart indicates almost zero traffic on yedda.com going anywhere other than their default subdomain.

Then, I read that yedda was acquired and that 90% of their traffic was through partners.

Now is Alexa that wrong? I've known they are off before...but, according to that TechCrunch post, Yedda or AOL is claiming Yedda received 8 million visitors in October between partner sites and their own site. That makes them the 3rd largest Q&A site overall.

However, I've been watching them for a while. I have a hard, incredibly difficult time believing that they had 8 million visitors between their site & partners. When I worked at Yahoo, I was involved in any number of things. Even for the world's largest internet portal, partner sites don't drive that kind of volume unless they're publicly traded, massive organizations.

Yedda's partners are neither. Well, the truth will come out eventually :) In the meantime, congrats. They couldn't sell to Yahoo a few years ago (how do I know that?) but they did find a buyer.

1 responses:

Rachel Inbar said...

I think you just misread the table. It says 800 and the scale is thousands. Meaning Yedda had 800,000 visitors in Sept 2007. 8 million really does sound too good to be true...