According to Technorati there are more than 120 million blogs, up from 100,000 in 2003. Starting a blog is easy but maintaining it is harder. Only 7 million are actively updated at least every 3 months.
As you know this blog is updated every day and 7 days a week since we officially launched on January 7, 2008 and it seems that we are doing a good job because today we entered the ‘top 5000′ of the most authoritative blogs in the world.
We still have a long way to go (our rank is Rank: 4,564 so there are still 4463 in front of us) until we make it to the top 100 blogs. But we can dream, right?
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A few more statistics about thenextweb.org: 32000 unique visitors in the last 30 days spent and average of 2 minutes and 13 seconds per visit on our 558 posts. The most common way of visiting our site is via Google Reader and Netvibes. People came to our blog by searching for “the next web” (137), “htc diamond” (125) “next web” (115) “nico nico douga” (105), “olsen twins” (91), “nextweb” (83) and “something funny” (72).
I always look for the Olsen twins and end up at new media weblogs.
Yeah that is weird isn’t it!
The funny thing is that we get a lot of visitors that way but I can never replicate the search.
Congratulations. You are doing an excellent job.
Boris, by knowing you a bit more simply by following your great work online and your constant high energy I could bet, that the curve of success of this very blog is just upwards. My congratulation to very good results achieved in a relatively very short time.
Congratulations guys.
Thank you all for your kind words!
well deserved guys
Congratulations, I have been following this blog since day one and I am very happy I did so. The amount of exciting posts keep growing every day and even on ‘slow-news’-days you and Ernst-Jan keep us readers amused :) keep up the good work.
Congratulations, I enjoy reading about our next web here!
What was the most popular post/article?
@joop: Our top 3 most viewed post. Not sure if that is the same as ‘popular’ but it is the only thing I can find easily:
Something funny, From Microsoft (No really!), 24,775 views
Google + kite-surfing + environment + Virgin = Virgle, 11,149 views
Kevin Rose: ‘Digg will soon start suggesting stories’, 9,829 views
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