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MerchantCircle: 5,000 Paying Customers

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MerchantCircle, which is partially owned by IAC, is apparently beginning to make some headway in selling search oriented services to small businesses. It reports that it has achieved a base of 5,000 paying customers, who buy services costing $30, $60, $100, and $250 a month. “Most of them are coming in at the lower end” … Read more

Quantcast Publishes ‘Top 10’ Online Directories

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Figuring out who is on top of the heap in the online directory business is a complex task: on one hand, a “directory” category is kind of an oxymoron, given that so much of what is quantified is based on search engine optimization. Only 25 percent of Citysearch’s traffic, for instance, comes from its destination URLs. Some … Read more