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Thanks to all the stamp collectors and buyers who have been frequenting this site (and sometimes clicking our Top Stamps icon) we have finally reached the Top Ten!

The site that tracks this, topstamp.co.uk, features a lot of great stamp sites, ranked by a formula that takes recent (weekly) as well as historical data into account. The more clicks a site gets over time, the higher the rank.

Europe Stamps has been stuck at #11 for a few weeks, but now we are at #10. Thanks to those who continue to use the site to find great stamps on eBay, and if you haven’t voted today well we’d sure appreciate it! A vote for the site is a way of saying thanks to the work we’ve put in creating everything so that it’s helpful and easily navigable.

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We’ve been looking at our web stats for the site from October 1-31 and these are the top popular pages ranked by number of page views:

1. Czech Republic
2. Germany
3. Third Reich
4. Italy
5. Russia
6. Belgium
7. France
8. Spain
9. Albania
10. Greece
11. Austria
12. Romania
13. Poland
14. Switzerland
15. Netherlands
16. The Vatican
17. Great Britain
18. Hungary
19. Bulgaria
20. Denmark

We don’t have data yet about the subpages featured on each country page, but a quick glance suggests that by far the most popular subcategory is MNH (Mint, never hinged) with all others fighting for distant second.

As for the blog, the main page of the blog was actually the most popular page overall on the site. The blog’s “Collecting Tips” category was the next most popular blog page, 4th overall. Other popular blog pages:

3. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara Honored On Postage Stamps
4. How To Cover Your Computer Keyboard With Postage Stamps
5. 2008 Hungarian Stamp Issues: Europa 2008 (Letter Writing) (why is this so much more popular than the other Hungary 2008 pages? Ah, the vagaries of web traffic!)

Traffic overall grew, not only due to the contest we ran last month and the addition of EntreCard to the blog, but due to more people coming from search engines and places like stampboards.com. So far this month traffic is set to obliterate last month’s record totals; stampers are finding Europe-Stamps.com a valuable resource!

We also don’t yet have information about which pages actually led to the most bids or purchases on eBay, but the Czech Republic is likely to be near the top. Thanks to everyone who is using the site! Good luck finding that which others have overlooked… ssshhhhh!

Note: The traffic data is from Google Analytics and does weed out robots and spiders; these are human visitor stats.

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In the last few weeks our traffic has grown very well, and we have noticed more and more users shopping through our listings, making purchases on eBay, and then returning to do it again, multiple times.

That says to us that the project is genuinely useful to people, so we’re glad our (continuing) hard work is beneficial to stampers. As word gets out, hopefully more collectors will be able to find what they want on eBay by using our interface.

We don’t make people register or anything, so we only have our web host statistics to go by when learning who finds out site most useful. So far, it seems to be people outside the United States who buy through eBay.com. That is probably a result, partially, of our making a separate version of each page for every country on Earth (you can see what we mean by looking at the sitemap).

Another thing we’ve noticed is that people tend to buy multiple stamps/lots at a time. As you might expect, the higher the price of these items, the fewer at one time are bid on. Buyers also seem to win a very high percentage of what they bid on — perhaps pointing to the fact that Europe Stamps not only makes it easier to find stamps hidden in strange places on eBay, but also that there isn’t overall as much bidding competition for these items (due to difficulty with using eBay’s search and inadequate categorization).

Finally, eBay reports show that the vast majority of people who click over to eBay and actually make purchases do buy from the Stamps section. This means that the users of Europe Stamps are focused on what they want and don’t often shop around at random on eBay itself. That’s fine if they do, but when most purchases come from the Stamps category, it is a good indicator of the helpfulness of this site.

Thanks to everyone who has been coming here, using the eBay stamp interface, and also spreading the word. More stamp action means a healthier market in general, and every stamp that is sold teaches the buyer something new, philatelically. This generates more appreciation and discussion in various online forums.

So continue spreading the word in discussion forums, email, or with the icons under articles like this, and we’ll keep fine-tuning our mechanisms and adding new categories and features!