Yelp Is Growing 80% A Year, While Citysearch Remains Flat

TECH CRUNCH -- Sep 2 -- In July, Yelp had 8.6M unique U.S. visitors, up 80% from a year ago. Citysearch, on the other hand, had zero growth, staying at 15.4M uniques.(comScore). Yelp also has the No. 1 travel app on the iPhone (it is No. 26 overall). Whereas Citysearch’s similar iPhone app is not even in the top 20 travel apps. Yelp’s pageviews and average time spent per user on the site are also up 150% and 22%, respectively. Kara Nortman, the executive who runs Citysearch, says that the pageview numbers are down slightly. Part of this has to do with Citysearch going through the site and “pulling out pages that are not great consumer experiences,” which hurts SEO, but improves the site overall. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH

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