I would like to find out the names and web addresses of the
vertical-interest websites that have 50,000 unique visitors a month. I
am not interested in huge sites like Web MD, I'm looking for
medium-size sites.

I would like the sites to be content oriented in the following fields,
weight-loss, diabetes, investments, religion and fly-fishing.

Thanks!

I am interested in health sites

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 21 Apr 2003 13:32 PDT

Hello maggee-ga, 
 
You've asked a challenging question.  To the best of my knowledge, it
may not be possible to get the lists you're after using the particular
metric you've set out -- Number of Unique Visitors per Month -- and
for all of the specific topics you mentioned, such as fly-fishing.
 
However, it *is* possible to produce lists of "second tier" sites
(that is, those with moderate trafic, below the well-known popular
sites like WebMD) in a number of broad categories such as health, investing,
recreation, etc.  These might be a close approximation to what you are
looking for.  They may or may not meet your needs, depending on
precisely what it is you are after.
 
If you could provide any additional information about your information
needs -- or better yet, let me know if the lists I mentioned would
suit your needs -- we will try to provide you the best answer
possible.
 
pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by maggee-ga on 22 Apr 2003 13:35 PDT

Dear pafalafa-ga:

Thanks for responding so quickly to my request. I need sites with
speciic numbers and content orientations as I am starting a business.
In order to secure additional financing, I need to be able to say
there are xx number of sites with xx number of visitors in specific
topic areas who would be interested in my product.

There is one more approach to information I need but I think this data
will be even harder to find, but I'll mention it anyway. I am also
looking to find sites that sell $1000 worth of books per month via
affiliate links to the big book sites. They do not need to be in the
restricted topics I mentioned above (except no sex sites please). Once
again, I am not looking for huge sites as they will not be interested
in my product.



Thanks,
Maggee

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 02 May 2003 17:32 PDT

Hello again maggee-ga,

I've continued to poke around looking for information to answer your
question, and I've come to the following conclusion -- you already
have the best possible answer anyone can give you in the form of the
comments robertskelton-ga has given you below.

Even though he said he "doubts" the usefulness of the info, from where
I'm sitting, it looks like he has given you an exclusive, insider's
peek into the mysterious world of web traffic, translating rankings
into actual site visits.

My suggestion to you would be to accept robert's answer as THE answer,
and use his information to try and convince your financers of the
viability of your project.

Best of luck.

pafalafa-ga

<Sites selling over $1000 of books through affiliate links.

Anaconda.net earns $1000 per quarter in referral fees from Amazon.
http://www.anaconda.net/ap_quotes.shtml

The Lang Co.
Sold over $100,000 worth of books.
http://www.makura.com/bookstore/navnotes.html

Spirit walk 
Sold over $1000 of books through Amazon.
http://www.spiritwalk.org/calendar.htm

Disobey.com 
Sold $30,000 worth of books.
http://www.disobey.com/low/archives/poor_richards/1999/31.txt

The Gumbo pages
Sold $1500 worth of books in 2 weeks. 
http://www.gumbopages.com/looka/archive/1999-08.html

The B&R Samizdat Express
http://www.samizdat.com/
Sells $1400 worth of books via Amazon, receiving $55.51 in referral
fees.
http://www.samizdat.com/affil2.html

Interesting books.
http://members.aol.com/jbdelong/books.html
Books sold – 13 per week. 
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Comments/Kaching.html

Received $260 in referral fees for 4 month sales (approximately $1000
in books sold).
http://www.midnightowlvideo.com/Donations/Donations.htm

Lots of websites report that they earn a modest income from book sales
for example surrealist bookstore http://surrealist.org/books.html
 sold $590 worth of books in the first quarter of 2001, earning $39.49
in referral fees.  http://steamboats.com/checks.html

This site earnt $43.02 for one quarter’s book sales with Amazon.
http://www.rageboy.com/letters-html/letter-5-7-98.html

$100 cheque from amazon.
http://www.contraryinvestor.com/moarchive2000/mo020800.htm

$72.84 cheque.
http://www.rageboy.com/0.52.html

$56.31 cheque.
http://www.floatplan.com/kwfl/tales-of-kwfl/kwfl-tale2/kwfl-tale2-pt1.html

Fly fishing market.

The U.S. market for fly fishing was $678 million in 2000. This was an
increase of 18 % on 1998. http://www.affta.com/news_09172001.htm

There are an estimated 10.9 million fly anglers in the U.S.
http://www.flyfishingjournal.com/whatsnew.htm

Trout unlimited in a non-profit organisation involved in conservation
of trout and salmon fisheries. It has 125,000 members.
http://www.tu.org/about_tu/tu_mission.html


Fly fishing sites with over 50,000 unique visitors per month.

Noreast.com
Over 100,000 unique visitors per month.
http://www.noreast.com/today/webrates1.cfm

Fly Anglers Online
5,000 unique visitors per day or 152,000 per month
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/about/media/

The Trout Fishing Society.
2800 visitors per day or 85,000 per month.
http://www.fishingsociety.org/troutinfo.html

The Fly Fishing Forum
Several thousand unique visitors each week.
http://www.flyfishingforum.com/advertising/main.htm

Fishing works.com
http://www.fishingworks.com/
Alexa ranking of 70,635

Landbigfish.com
http://www.landbigfish.com/home.cfm
Alexa ranking of  127,107

Bigfishtackle.com
http://www.bigfishtackle.com/
331,000 unique visitors per month.
http://www.top9.com/01_2001/sports_hobbies/outdoors/fishing_boating.html

eangler.com
http://www.eangler.com/index.asp
119,000 unique visitors per month.
http://www.top9.com/sports_hobbies/outdoors/fishing_boating.html

FFO Tackle
http://www.ffo-tackle.com/
125,000 unique visitors per month
http://www.top9.com/01_2001/sports_hobbies/outdoors/fishing_boating.html



Weight loss market.

The weight loss market is worth $39 billion in the U.S.
http://www.the-infoshop.com/study/md11355_weight_loss_diet_control.html
There are currently 52 million dieters in the U.S.
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:P0jhCEbLmRYC:www.journalnow.com/wsj/business/finance/MGBRMRH7SCD.html+%22weight+loss+market%22+online&hl=en&ie=UTF-8


Weight loss sites with over 50,000 unique visitors per month.

Ediets.com
http://www.ediets.com/
1,952,000 unique visitors per month.
http://www.top9.com/health_family_culture/health_matters/fitness_diet.html

Dietsmart.com
104,000 unique visitors.
http://www.dietsmart.com/cgi-bin/dietsmart?Index.sb
http://www.top9.com/health_family_culture/health_matters/fitness_diet.html

Prevention.com
http://www.prevention.com/
95,000 unique visitors.
http://www.top9.com/health_family_culture/health_matters/fitness_diet.html

Weightwatchers.co.uk
http://www.weightwatchers.co.uk/index.aspx
321,000 unique visitors.
http://www.top9.com/health_family_culture/health_matters/fitness_diet.html

Dietwatch.com
http://www.dietwatch.com/dietwatch3/about/pressStory.asp?story=9
Over 41,666 unique visitors.
http://www.top9.com/health_family_culture/health_matters/fitness_diet.html

Trimlife.com
188,000 visitors a day.
http://209.61.190.23/news2002/jan02/jan14/2_tues/news5tuesday.html


Dietsmart.com
104,000 visitors a day.
http://209.61.190.23/news2002/jan02/jan14/2_tues/news5tuesday.html



Diabetes market.

According to a study from Business Communications Company Inc. the
world diabetes market is almost $18 billion and is expected to reach
$26.8 billion by 2007.
http://www.bccresearch.com/editors/RB-158.html

About 16 million Americans have diabetes.
http://ndep.nih.gov/materials/mediakits/gen-audience/diabetessnapshot.pdf

150 million people in the world have diabetes.
http://www.worlddiabetesfoundation.org/aboutus-7highlights.htm


Diabetes sites with more than 50,000 unique visitors.

Children with Diabetes
http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/index_cwd.htm
96,723 unique visitors.
http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/stats/200205/index_01_b.htm


Diabetes.org
http://www.diabetes.org/main/application/commercewf
379,000 unique visitors
http://www.top9.com/01_2001/top99s/top99_health_sites.html


Investments market.

According to Nielson /Netratings more than 44 percent of the active
web population visited a finance web site in January 2002. Finance
sites had 51.6 million unique visitors in January, who spent an
average 21 minutes browsing finance and investment sites. 53 percent
were men and 47 percent women.
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/finance/article/0,,5961_983221,00.html


Investments sites with more than 50,000 unique visitors.

Clear Station
http://clearstation.etrade.com/
Approximately 83,000 unique visitors per month (1 million per year)
http://clearstation.etrade.com/doc/pr/pr_1million.html

Stocklab.com
http://www.stocklab.com/new/rightsideindex.html
50,000 unique visitors per month.
http://www.stocklab.com/new/advertise.html


Indian economy online
Over 50,000 visitors per month.
http://www.ieo.org/news_reports.html

Investtools.com
http://www.investools.com/c/IT/home/home
300,000 unique visitors per month.
http://www.investools.com/c/help.pl/Info/pr/20000523.html

Advice Online 
http://www.adviceonline.co.uk/
350,000 unique visitors per month.
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:Ou8FEWuT96gJ:aimquoted.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200204290800031780V.html+%22investment+advice%22+%22unique+visitors+%22+-million&hl=en&ie=UTF-8




Religion market.

According to Brenda Brasher, assistant professor in the Department of
Religion and Philosophy at Mount Union College, Ohio. There are over
one million religious websites.

According to Jupiter Media Matrix, 6.4% of the U.S. online population
visited a religious website in March 2002. Christian sites attract the
greatest audience.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1945979.stm

The most popular sites attract millions of unique visitors. For
example the Interview with God receives a quarter of a million
visitors per month. http://www.cathtelecom.com/news/202/002.php


Religion sites with more than 50,000 visitors per month.

Sacred Texts
152,000 unique visitors per month.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/about.htm


Catholic exchange
Over 160,000 visitors per month.
http://www.catholicexchange.com/ad/faq.asp

Catholic World News
120,000 unique visitors per month.
http://www.cwnews.com/about/advertising.cfm

Christianity Today.com
633,000 unique visitors
http://www.cin.org/archives/cinjub/200204/0235.html

Christianbook.com
890,000 unique visitors
http://www.cin.org/archives/cinjub/200204/0235.html

Catholic.org
416,000 unique visitors
http://www.cin.org/archives/cinjub/200204/0235.html

Catholic Freebies
300,000 unique visitors per month.
http://www.catholicfreebies.com/advertise.cfm

Jewish world Review
168,000 unique visitors.
http://www.cin.org/archives/cinjub/200204/0235.html

Wuzupgod.com
652,000 unique visitors.
http://www.cin.org/archives/cinjub/200204/0235.html

Liveoakfbc.org
556,000 unique visitors
http://www.cin.org/archives/cinjub/200204/0235.html

Catholicweb.com
Approximately 150,000 unique visitors per month.
http://www.catholicweb.com/about_advertising.cfm

Epistemelinks.com
Approximately 120,000 unique visitors per month.
http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/EncyRefs.aspx?Initial=N

Enciclopedia Catolica
91,250 unique visitors per month.
http://www.enciclopediacatolica.com/english/faq.htm

gp4teens.com 
http://gp4teens.com/
60,833 visitors per month.
http://islamicity.com/awards/Time/020513/page2.htm

Islamicity.com
http://islamicity.com/
1 million unique visitors per month.
http://islamicity.com/awards/Time/020513/page2.htm


Torahtots.com
3-5,000 unique visitors per day.
http://www.torahtots.com/abouttt.htm


FaithandValues.com
150,000 unique visitors per month.
http://www.religionnews.com/press02/PR042803.html

Interfaithfamily.com
13,250 unique visitors per month.
http://www.interfaithfamily.com/article/issue100/friedland.phtml


Connectingchristians.com
http://www.connectingchristians.com/
13,000 unique visitors a month.
http://www.buysellwebsite.com/appraisals/jan2003/christian.htm

JesusManitoba.com
10,000 unique visitors a month.
http://www.chazm.com/advertising/sitestatistics.html

Christians Online/Christianity.com (the two websites have merged)
http://home.christianity.com/
60,000 unique visitors per month.
http://ads.conline.net/

SeekGod.org
http://www.seekgod.org/
Over 30,000 unique visitors per month.
http://www.freespiritcentre.info/index.html

Women Today Magazine (WTM)
http://www.womentodaymagazine.com/
Over 48,000 unique visitors per month.
http://www.gospelcom.net/guide/resources/case-study.php>










<Additional links:>
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<Search strategy :>

<"amazon associates">
<://www.google.com/search?q=%22amazon+associates%22+&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1>

<"check from amazon">
<://www.google.com/search?q=%22check+from+amazon%22+&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=30&sa=N>

<"50,000 unique visitors" "stocks">
<://www.google.com/search?q=%2250,000+unique+visitors%22+%22stocks%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N>

<"sold over $1000" books>
<://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22sold+over+%241000%22+books>

<"million religious sites">
<://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22million+religious+sites%22>

<unique visitors" Christian>
<://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22unique+visitors%22+christian>

<Hope this helps.>

There are many sites on the internet that provide traffic rankings.  A
simple way to do this, that is especially categorized, is to visit
http://www.alexa.com and look through their ranking systems. 
http://www.top9.com will also give you a great deal of information to
guide you on your search

Hi Maggee,

I doubt that the following information is of any use for your stated
purpose, so I'm posting this as a comment.

There is no way to find every site with x number of visitors,
regardless of category. A few sites make public their number of
visitors, but in general such data is kept private. The numbers are
sometimes found either on something like an "advertise with us" page,
or if they use a free statistics service - just click on the little
logo at the bottom of the page.  Alexa is the best option you have.
It's data is taken from a small sample - those who use the Alexa
toolbar, but it isn't bad for sites of the popularity you are
investigating.

Based on my own sites, and where they appear within Alexa, I feel that
an Alexa Rank of between 30,000 and 150,000 is where you will find
sites with 50,000 visitors per month. Where possible I've included
actual figures.


Alexa Directory
--------------
http://www.alexa.com/site/browse


Weight Loss
------------

The Weight Loss Zone    
http://freeweightloss.com 
Rank: 39,641

Diet Information    
http://diet-i.com 
Rank: 33,263 

Practical Weight Loss    
http://practicalweightloss.com 
Rank: 69,988

Weight Loss and Diet Directory    
http://checkweight.net 
Rank: 73,001 

Weight Remedy Net    
http://weightremedy.net 
Rank: 113,645

Calories Burned, BMI and BMR Calculator    
http://caloriesperhour.com 
Rank: 130,870 


Diabetes
--------

Novo Nordisk    
http://novonordisk.com
Rank: 40,441 

Children with Diabetes    
http://childrenwithdiabetes.com
Rank: 84,973

The Canadian Diabetes Association   
http://www.diabetes.ca 
Rank: 98,923 

Joslin Diabetes Center    
http://joslin.org 
Rank: 126,993 


Investments
------------

Indian Financial Markets    
http://myiris.com
Rank: 13,492

Investopedia Financial Glossary    
http://investopedia.com 
Rank: 21,075 
(650,000+ monthly users)
http://www.investopedia.com/investopedia/advertising.asp

Prophet Finance    
http://prophetfinance.com 
Rank: 32,416 

TradeTrack Corp.    
http://tradetrek.com
Rank: 33,991 
(7.5 million page views per month)
http://www.tradetrek.com/home/advertise.asp

Dow Jones & Co., Inc.    
http://dowjones.com
Rank: 34,831 

Equis
http://www.equis.com/
Rank: 36,974

Stock Consultant.com    
http://stockconsultant.com 
Rank: 46,684 

ON24, Inc.    
http://on24.com 
Rank: 47,306

Thomson Investors Network    
http://thomsoninvest.net
Rank: 48,978 

Multex.com, Inc.    
http://multex.com 
Rank: 49,429 

Stock Technical Analysis    
http://stockta.com
Rank: 50,436 

Black Enterprise    
http://blackenterprise.com 
Rank: 52,336 
(350,000 visitors per month)
http://www.blackenterprise.com/AboutUsOpen.asp?Source=Pages/dotcom.html

Marvel Financial Services    
http://swissquote.com 
Rank: 55,671 

Decision Point    
http://decisionpoint.com
Rank: 57,127 

DownloadQuotes    
http//downloadquotes.com
Rank: 67,418 

Tax-news.com    
http://tax-news.com
Rank: 88,923

Tradng Glossary    
http://trading-glossary.com 
Rank: 95,982

Wealth Lab
http://wealth-lab.com
Rank: 111,312 

Data Shaping Solutions, LLC    
http://datashaping.com 
Rank: 169,395
(more tham 100,000 visitors per year)
http://www.datashaping.com/adlink.shtml

Site-By-Site    
http://site-by-site.com
Rank: 174,467 


Religion
-------

The Free Spirit Centre    
http://freespiritcentre.info 
Rank: 38,865 
(20,000 unique visitors in a month)
http://www.freespiritcentre.info/advertise.html

OBOD: The Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids: The Druid Grove    
http://druidry.org
Rank: 67,318
(17,000 per month)
http://www.nedstatbasic.net/s?tab=1&link=2&id=390179

In His Image
http://www.hisimage.org
Rank: 135,835
(45,000 per month)
http://www.nedstatbasic.net/s?interval=day_permonth&tab=1&link=2&id=324796


Fly Fishing
----------

(I couldn't find any that popular)


Book Sales Affiliate
------------------

I have also found you one example for affiliate book sales:

SearchEngineZ.com
http://searchenginez.com

Monthly unique visitors: 53,888
http://www.onestat.com/asp/report.asp?p=1&dstart=2003/03/01&dend=2003/03/31&d=2003/03/23&m=d&period=lastmonth

Stats according to Alexa
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=http://searchenginez.com/about.html

(based on this one example, 50,000 visitors per month = a rank of
roughly 50,000th at Alexa)

Total books sold through affiliate links in March: $10,000

(The books sold figure could not be found by the general public, I can
only tell you the figure because the site is mine. You won't find any
affiliate sites telling the public how much they sell.)

Another site of mine, which has an Alexa rank of 1,171,271 gets
roughly 10,000 visitors per month
 http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=survive%202012&url=http://survive2012.com/

Another, rank 582,918, gets 6,000 visitors
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=googlefan&url=http://googlefan.com/


Nedstat Hit Counters
--------------------

Nedstat has a directory of sites which use their free hit counter. The
figures listed are daily visitors, so within each category you are
looking for 1600-1700 per day.

Religion
http://www.nedstatbasic.net/s?tab=4&link=3&partner=1&country=0&level=2&category=9006

Business & Economics
http://www.nedstatbasic.net/s?tab=4&link=1&category=2000&partner=1&country=0

Fishing
http://www.nedstatbasic.net/s?tab=4&link=3&partner=1&country=0&level=2&category=15019


robertskelton-ga
Google Answers Researcher

Dear robertskelton-ga:

I know that finding the info I'm looking for is going to be a
challenge, but thanks so much for letting me know about your service
and for listing all of the sites you think are appropriate. I will go
look at your site to see if it will be useful in my quest.

Maggee