Friday, November 6, 2009

Yahoo shutters GeoCities

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GeoCities is dead. The once popular portal for building basic, homemade Web sites owned by Yahoo has now been shuttered by the popular search giant. All content, links and images associated with GeoCities has also vanished.

It is transitioning its users to its Yahoo Web Hosting product.

What's interesting is the SEO impact of this. Consider these stats from Google:

• There were 7,450,000 GeoCities URLs indexed in Google
• GeoCities.com had around 10 million visitors in September
• GeoCities URLs ranked in the top 20 of Google for around 680,000 different keywords

Impressive.

E.C. :)

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