TORONTO, Oct. 22, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AGORACOM (http://www.agoracom.com), North America's leading small-cap and micro-cap investment community, recently announced web traffic results for the first full-year since the launch of its small-cap, wiki-powered "Investor Controlled Discussion Forums" (http://blog.agoracom.com/2007/10/11/agoracom-investor-controlled-stock-discussion-forums-smash-status-quo/) on October 5, 2007.
"If a picture is worth a thousand words, our charts from Google analytics (http://blog.agoracom.com/2008/10/10/agoracom-hits-101-million-pages-125-million-visitors-for-the-year/) are worth 101,000,000 words," says George Tsiolis, President of AGORACOM. "Suffice it to say, we are ecstatic with the results and we want to thank all of our great clients and members that believed in our model and breathed unbelievable life into this paradigm shifting platform."
THE TALE OF THE TAPE
(Figures for October 5, 2007 - October 5, 2008. All figures reported by Google Analytics)
Unique Visitors 1,245,854 Visits 7,639,273 Page Views 101,204,915 Pages Per Visit 13.25 Avg Time On Site 10:00 Number Of Countries/Territories 207 Top 10 (Canada, USA, Germany, Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Mexico)
WEB 2.0 STOCK DISCUSSION COMMUNITY DESTROYS STATUS QUO
AGORACOM success stems from incorporating three very important Web 2.0 functions that are not currently available on any current financial site. Each of these functions is predicated on a reputation system that provides investors with greater administrator authorities as they improve their AGORACOM rank (http://agoracom.com/help#ratings).
* Investor Generated Content -- AGORACOM gives investors the ability to provide content far beyond message posting, including videos and photos. * Wiki Editing Tools -- AGORACOM gives investors the ability to edit any and all content on the site, resulting in faster, more accurate company profiles and information. This is a significant advantage over all other financial sites that use feeds which are effective for large-cap companies but typically outdated when it comes to small-cap companies. * Community Monitoring -- AGORACOM provides its highest ranking members with the authority to delete offending messages and terminate repeat offending members. This has resulted in a significant reduction of profanity, spam, stock bashing and hyping that plague first generation unmonitored stock discussion communities.
"When we made first made the announcement last October," says Tsiolis, "we set out to destroy the stock discussion forum status quo that we have all come to hate over the past 10 years thanks to unrelenting spam, profanity, stock bashing, stock hyping and assorted noise. Many thought it couldn't be done because we could neither change habits nor unseat the incumbents. However, I think our numbers now speak for themselves."
About AGORACOM -- No Profanity, No Spam, No Stock Bashing, No Stock Hyping
AGORACOM (http://www.Agoracom.com) is North America's only small-cap community built to serve the needs of serious small-cap and micro-cap investors. No rumours, profanity, stock bashing or hyping. Our traffic ranking is above the top 1% of all websites around the world.
AGORACOM Investor Relations (http://www.AgoracomIR.com) is North America's largest online investor relations firm for small-cap companies. We have partnered with the world's biggest internet companies, including Globe Investor, Yahoo, AOL, Google and Blackberry to market our clients to a massive audience of new small-cap investors. We have served over 200 companies since 1997.
AGORACOM Investor Relations has displaced the telephone and e-mail as primary IR communications devices. Our IR HUB delivers two-way investor relations in near real-time that is 24/7/365 accessible to shareholders around the world and goes far beyond text by offering both audio and video communications.
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