I am reblogging this post because it is an example of a big idea.
What would more traffic to your blog post mean to you? Image source. What would 100,000 views on a blog post mean to you? Depending on the goals of your blog, it could mean thousands of new subscribers and fans. But it could also mean new customers — big traffic means big exposure and big…
via How to Get 100,000 People to See Your Blog Post — Unbounce
My friend Nicholas Mac Connell says that, “People read to answer questions.” Maybe this also explains why people visit the 10 most popular websites according to Quantcast.
Here are the questions that I think the top 10 websites answer.
| RANK | SITE | QUESTION ANSWERED |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  google.com |
What answer? |
| 2 | youtube.com |
What story? |
| 3 | facebook.com |
What person? |
| 4 | msn.com |
What news? |
| 5 | bing.com |
What answer? |
| 6 | yahoo.com |
What news? |
| 7 |  amazon.com |
What tool? |
| 8 | twitter.com |
What person? |
| 9 | ebay.com |
What trade / deal? |
| 10 | yelp.com |
What opinion? |
After adjusting for duplicates, we get the seven (7) most popular questions in the U.S. that drive people to websites on both desktop and mobile devices: