Top Japan website rankings for October 2008

ComScore, Inc. just announced top Japan website rankings for the month of October 2008. The ranking information is based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service.
The rankings of the largest and fastest growing Internet properties and site categories in Japan shows that Business/Finance sites saw visitation growth in October due to the global financial crisis, while retail sites saw gains due to the upcoming holiday shopping season and seasonal purchases.

Yahoo! sites maintained its top ranking in October reaching more than 49 million visitors, followed by Google sites with 37.8 million visitors and Rakuten Inc. with 31.3 million visitors.

Read the complete report here.

Motoko Hunt

Motoko Hunt manages the SEO for all of Adobe's properties in Japan and the APAC region. Prior to joining Adobe, Motoko established AJPR in 1998; she has been providing search marketing consulting services targeting Japan and Asia to companies around the world. Her services have made a big impact on the search marketing campaigns of some of the world's most popular multi-national brands. A number of her articles have been published on industry websites and printed media including MultiLingual Computing and the International Journal of Localisation. She also writes about the Japanese online market on her blog at AJPR and contributes to several online magazines in Japan and Asia. She served as a member of the board of directors of SEMPO in 2010-2012, and is a chairperson of the SEMPO Asia-Pacific Committee.

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