WordPress Now Powers Over One-Third of the Top 10 Million Sites on the Web

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WordPress Now Powers Over One-Third of the Top 10 Million Sites on the Web

Our market share has been growing steadily over the last few years, going from 29.9% just one year ago to 33.4% now. We are, of course, quite proud of these numbers! The path here has been very exciting. In 2005, we were celebrating 50,000 downloads. Six years later, in January 2011, WordPress was powering 13.1% of websites. And now, early in 2019, we are powering 33.4% of sites. Our latest release has already been downloaded close to 14 million times, and it was only released on the 21st of February.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

The software is good, its SEO is top-notch.

I have three wordpress blogs now, one of them gets about 10,000 hits a month.

 

[newworldafro]

The software is good, its SEO is top-notch.

I have three wordpress blogs now, one of them gets about 10,000 hits a month.

What topics you presenting?
How is your advertisement looking?
How much time total do you spend on them a week?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

What topics you presenting?

It's a general information website for a niche science topic. The target audience is pretty small, but like I said the SEO is so good that it ends up being the #1 search result for anyone looking for anything related to the topic, and even for a lot of unrelated topics.

How is your advertisement looking?

I'm ideologically opposed to internet advertising in its current form - I think it makes the world worse and is often specifically targeted to exploit people in immoral ways. So I don't run ads on my sites. From what I understand of current rates I'm losing about $11-12/month by taking that stand, which isn't really that much money.

How much time total do you spend on them a week?

When I was building the content structure of the site I spent a lot of time on it - very roughly I'd guess around 10 hours/week for over a year. It was a form of entertainment for me during a period of life when I had a lot of free time. Now that I'm a lot busier I only throw a new blog post up once every 3-4 months, and it only takes me a couple hours to write a post. I might also spend an hour a month or so interacting with comments and editing preexisting material. But the existing content is popular enough that views still roll in. Back when I was updating more frequently the views actually peaked at close to 20,000 views/month, and I could probably get more if I worked as hard to drive views as I did to build content.


I don't make any money on the site but it's given me a lot of opportunities. Solely because of running the site, I've gotten to consult on a BBC episode, was asked to take part in a Nat Geo episode (though I was out of the country and couldn't do it), got involved in a really exciting volunteer project that is leading to a published paper in a science journal with me as the lead author, and have been able to help out in a few dozen other projects including, randomly enough, a book by the Iranian government and a training course by the New Zealand government.

 

[newworldafro]

It's a general information website for a niche science topic. The target audience is pretty small, but like I said the SEO is so good that it ends up being the #1 search result for anyone looking for anything related to the topic, and even for a lot of unrelated topics.



I'm ideologically opposed to internet advertising in its current form - I think it makes the world worse and is often specifically targeted to exploit people in immoral ways. So I don't run ads on my sites. From what I understand of current rates I'm losing about $11-12/month by taking that stand, which isn't really that much money.




When I was building the content structure of the site I spent a lot of time on it - very roughly I'd guess around 10 hours/week for over a year. It was a form of entertainment for me during a period of life when I had a lot of free time. Now that I'm a lot busier I only throw a new blog post up once every 3-4 months, and it only takes me a couple hours to write a post. I might also spend an hour a month or so interacting with comments and editing preexisting material. But the existing content is popular enough that views still roll in. Back when I was updating more frequently the views actually peaked at close to 20,000 views/month, and I could probably get more if I worked as hard to drive views as I did to build content.


I don't make any money on the site but it's given me a lot of opportunities. Solely because of running the site, I've gotten to consult on a BBC episode, was asked to take part in a Nat Geo episode (though I was out of the country and couldn't do it), got involved in a really exciting volunteer project that is leading to a published paper in a science journal with me as the lead author, and have been able to help out in a few dozen other projects including, randomly enough, a book by the Iranian government and a training course by the New Zealand government.

That's what's up

 

[amare68]

bout to start my website, just doing some light research , came across many domains , worspress , wix etc..

any recommendations? its for fitness