Economy Driving Users to Finance News Sites in Record Numbers

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Oct 10th 2008 at 12:30PM

Ecomogeddon Drive Traffic to Financially Themed Web Sites

The financial crisis is actually proving to be a boon, for some. Finance-themed Web sites have seen huge increases in traffic, and even the little guys are noticing massive numbers of new visitors.

Understandably, major online financial outlets like the Wall Street Journal, AOL Money and Finance, and Yahoo! Finance have seen record levels of daily traffic, but it's what has been happening at the smaller sites that has been truly amazing. comScore, an Internet tracking company, has reported that GasBuddy.com (a site that directs visitors to the cheapest gas stations in their neighborhood) has seen its traffic jump by 30-percent. SavingAdvice.com, a site offers coupons and information of shopping deals, has said its daily traffic has increased dramatically.

The best barometer for what is driving Web traffic is usually Google searches, and in September, queries for 'stocks' nearly tripled.

Other companies may also see bright days to come thanks to the encroaching ecomageddon. FindHow.com, a site that specializes in Do-It-Yourself instructions for building and fixing things, expects to see growing demand in the coming months not just for its site, but for the DIY movement on a whole. [From: Yahoo! Tech]

Filed under: Computers, Google

Tags: credit crunch, CreditCrunch, economics, economy, financial, financial crisis, FinancialCrisis, internet, saving, stocks, web

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