Onrec.com moves up the Alexa.com world site rankings. Comment from publisher.

18,948 up from 19,817

I came into work on Saturday morning 3.5.03 and was very pleased to see onrec.com had moved up in the Alexa rankings again. I was so pleased I put the news on the website.

I am surprised to see we have jumped again this morning to be ranked by Alexa.com 18,948 th website in the world according to traffic.

Why? Well I think it could be the fact we do very well on free search engines. Also having been in business on the Internet for over 3 years helps.

But I think the main reason is because we update news on the website every weekday (except the occasional Saturday) and then inform our 9000 email subscribers every day.

My guess is that few sites have such a large and growing regular audience. We average 30 new subscribers a day to the newsletters.

My thanks to the staff here at onrec.com its their diligence and hard work that makes our ranking possible.

Regards
David Hurst
Publisher




Here at onrec.com we are having difficulty containing our excitement about the latest rise in the Alexa rankings for onrec.com.

We have been tracking our Alexa ranking here at onrec for the last year, and have found them to be an interesting indication of any sites traffic, including our own.

We have, and still are, steadily climbing the rankings, without any manipulation, due to the increase in traffic on onrec.com. Part of the reason for the increase in traffic is that we have been added to the Google and Moreover news searches. Google has 4000 sites that it searches every 15 minutes for news, whilst Moreover supply news letters and the news search for ask jeeves.

We have also embarked on a strategy to increase the depth of online recruitment news by working with content partners in other countries. In the last month we have established content partnerships in Canada, USA, Ireland, Germany, Dubai, China and Australia. We hope to build on this platform of partners in the coming months.

Its possible to compare our sites ranking with any other, by following this link.

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&p=Det_W_g_40_M1&url...

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