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Top 10 US Social-Network and Blog Site Rankings Issued for Nov.

MySpace.com yet again tops the rankings of top US social-networking sites, with nearly 57.4 million unique visitors in Nov., down from October’s 58.8 million, according to custom lists of top US social-networking sites and blogs compiled by Nielsen Online.

Google’s Blogger remains atop blog site rankings with 33.6 million visitors, down from October’s 34.1 million.

Ranked second among social-networking sites, Facebook increased the number of visitors to nearly 22.0 million, up from October’s 19.5 million - and up 89% vs. Nov. 2006, whereas MySpace visitors increased just 7% year over year.

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(Compare with Oct. social-network data.)

Among blog sites, top-ranked Blogger increased its visitors a significant 49% from the year-earlier period, accounting for 33.6 million visitors in Nov., albeit that was down from this October’s 34.1 million.

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More impressively, however, WordPress, which maintained the No. 2 rank it first achieved in Oct., grew 310% from the year-earlier period. In Nov. it accounted for 12.0 million visitors, up from 11.4 million in Oct. - and up from 2.9 million last year.

Six Apart Type Pad, now No. 3, also grew - 22% from last year - to more than 11.0 million in Nov., up from nearly 10.6 million visitors in Oct.

(See this table from Oct. to make month-to-month comparisons for blog sites.)

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