Traffic

Get your message in front of millions of "chief household officers", who do the daily meal planning, grocery shopping and meal preparation.

BigOven.com served an average of about 3 million monthly absolute unique users for the first half of 2009, approximately 14 million pageviews per month, more than 300% growth year over year. 

Note that there is considerable seasonality in traffic to sites focused on cooking at home.  The highest peak is in the fourth quarter of the year.

From Google Analytics:

  2007 2008 Year-over-year change
Monthly Uniques, Nov 21- Dec 21 598,000 3.3 million 551%
Total Visits, Nov 21-Dec 21 729,000 4.39 million 602%
Registered members, Dec 21 68,916 290,405 420%
Monthly Pageviews, same period 1.6 million 17 million 1002%

Since food is such a topic of conversation, there is a considerable amount of pass-along engagement in the site, which helped reduce our already-low marketing costs.

BigOven.com is a Top 2,000 website worldwide, and is one of the leading properties focused on the sharing of recipes, cooking ideas, and tips about food.