ECommerce sales information and opinions from Rob Charlebois, selling online since 1998, driving over 20M in annual ECommerce sales.

Ottawa Based Business Websites, Who gets the most traffic? Part 2

October 31st, 2007 Posted in Ottawa Online Marketing, Analytics

In order to further validate the busiest website in Ottawa I decided to check another sources, Alexa. Alexa provides similar data as Compete but as you will see below produces slightly different results.

According to these results, the rank is first gc.ca, corel.com and third canadapost.ca. I did to run the reports for all of the other Ottawa based business that I ran on Compete on the assumption that the magnitude of these sites is still much higher than the others in Ottawa.

Ottawa Sites Alexa Ranking

From the looks of the Alexa data the gc.ca site is by far a winner but the trend for the site is definitely not positive. But I will say in Corel’s defense, there are some other sites not included here such as Ulead.com, Intervideo.com, WordPerfect.com, Designer.com, and many of the international websites.

  1. 2 Responses to “Ottawa Based Business Websites, Who gets the most traffic? Part 2”

  2. By Henry Lewkowicz on Oct 31, 2007

    Hi Rob,
    What are the factors of getting “hits”? Is search optimization still a big factor? Or word-of-mouth?
    Henry

  3. By PapaG on Oct 31, 2007

    Henry,
    Getting “Hits” to your website is always a multi-pronged approach that should consider all marketing vehicles including both natural search, linking, paid search, word of mouth, banners and any others that you can execute on and that suit your business.

    As for search engine optimization, it is most definitely a factor and should not be ignored.

    If you have more questions or would like to discuss further feel free to comment again to continue the discussion.

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