Useless marketingcharts?
A long time ago, at a time I was searching a lot of statistical information on Internet Marketing issues, I subscribed to marketingcharts.com RSS Feeds.
To be honest, 99% of the offered information never gets my attention, but recently they presented the Top 10 Internet Advertising Websites – July 2009.
At the first glance I was surprised that except Nr. 2 (AWeber) and Nr. 9 (WebRing) I’ve never heard of any of these sites.
A closer look revealed two findings:
First, I do not have to hide and blame myself for being ignorant and not knowing the “everybody-knows-em” sites, as the listed sites are more or less scam sites. (Disclaimer: It might not be scam at all, but I personally consider every Internet Marketing site which offers me super special secrets for just a two digt monthly fee as a scam. BTW, a short Google research just for the Nr. 1 listed supports this point of view)
The second finding is that I have to take closer look at the information marketingcharts.com offers. If everything they present is that useless, why bothering reading their stuff? Actually the list is sorted by “US Market Share of Visits [%]“, which might be correctly measured, but without human or intelligent filtering the chart is quite useless.
What do you think? Any similar or contrary experiences? Please let me know.
