I know clearly who it is, because I have advertised directly on all of the top blogs / sites for many month’s in late 2008 and 2009 so I’ve had direct access to lots of traffic and data which I’ve analyzed… But do you know who the real traffic king is? Wanna try and guess who the top five are even? Is it DNJournal.com? Maybe ElliotsBlog.com? How about TheDomains.com?? DomainNameWire.com? etc..

The domain industry is pretty small, so there aren’t that many serious contenders… However there are some people who have set themselves apart from everybody else and I can count them all on my right hand… So without any further ado, here is the most accurate “estimated” traffic data directly from Google’s adplanner for the month of April 2010 and the list of top five traffic kings.

Oh and for those of you who don’t already know, Google.com/adplanner is the #1 traffic estimator on the market today. A lot better than Compete.com, Quantcast.com or Alexa.com. These three services are useful in some cases, but really, they are always hit or miss when it comes to getting a feel for the actual traffic numbers. A lot more times they miss… BIG TIME! The real pros use Google data

#1 DomainNameWire.com written by Andrew Allemann

Unique visitors (estimated cookies)
120K

Unique visitors (users)
64K

Page views
520K

Total visits
240K

Avg visits per visitor
3.8

Avg time on site
5:00

#2 DnJournal.com written by Ron Jackson

Unique visitors (estimated cookies)
110K

Unique visitors (users)
63K

Page views
380K

Total visits
220K

Avg visits per visitor
3.5

Avg time on site
4:40

#3 Domaining.com news aggregator developed by Francois Carrillo

Unique visitors (estimated cookies)
110K

Unique visitors (users)
64K

Page views
1.5M

Total visits
560K

Avg visits per visitor
8.8

Avg time on site
7:30

#4 TheDomains.com written by Mike Berkens

Unique visitors (estimated cookies)
76K

Unique visitors (users)
39K

Page views
240K

Total visits
150K

Avg visits per visitor
3.8

Avg time on site
4:10

#5 ElliotsBlog.com written by Elliot Silver

Unique visitors (estimated cookies)
70K

Unique visitors (users)
36K

Page views
320K

Total visits
160K

Avg visits per visitor
4.6

Avg time on site
6:40

Like I said in the beginning of the post, I’ve advertised on all five of the domain industry news sites / blogs above for many month’s in 2008 – 2009 when I was running domain development marketing campaigns to raise brand awareness and I can confirm that the data above is pretty accurate from internal logs.

Also funny to see industry insiders such as Mike Berkens of TheDomains.com and Elliot Silver of ElliotsBlog.com still continue to quote random and pretty wacky numbers for domains they write about on their blogs from Compete.com… Why don’t they use Google.com/adplanner — the #1 traffic estimator on the market today??! Not sure, but hopefully now they will.. After they see this post