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BobReyes.com Site Statistics for 2008

Some 2008 quick stats about my site:

  • There was a total of 31,801 visits to bobreyes.com
  • A total of 40,916 page visits landed on my site in 2008
  • 26,170 visitors went to TurfSite Manila
  • 67.26% of my visitors were Referred by Search Engines; 17.85% were Direct Traffic; and 14.81% came from Referring Websites
  • Most people who visited my website uses Firefox on Microsoft Windows (48.81%), while 40.89% uses Internet Explorer on the same OS. 2.14% uses Mac OS & Safari
  • The Top Keywords were: jun lozada, plaincart, msn groups closing, swing out sister, earth hour philippines, wordpress cart, typing speed test, hacking smartbro, smart money, & umobile.

MSN Groups Closing Down; Multiply Takes Over

It has been confirmed by TechCrunch.com yesterday that the MSN Groups service will cease to operate as part of Microsoft on 21 FEB 2009. Prior to this confirmation, various mailing lists and forums had been discussing the rumor that circulated about the closure of MSN Groups either by end of this year or early next year. A similar confirmation has been released by Charlotte Jones, Group Product Manager at Microsoft.

Apparently, the reason for the closure of MSN Groups is attributed to the launch of Microsoft Windows Live Groups in November 2008, and Microsoft do not want to have two “competing products” inside their fence.

The good news is that the operations of MSN Groups has been turned-over to Multiply.com, an emerging name in social networking, especially here in the Philippines (next to Friendster).