UPDATE: A new list is available, and it’s MUCH bigger! Please visit my Austin Startups List site to see all 1,400+ websites/startups in Austin. |
This list highlights which websites in Austin are most successful at driving valuable organic traffic from Google. The number next to each is the estimated max monthly value of each site’s organic traffic, (Search Traffic Value from SEMRush):
- Dell, $17,104,654
- Indeed, $13,700,900
- RetailMeNot, $12,140,303
- University of Texas, $3,566,742
- BedandBreakfast.com, $2,922,996
- CreditCards.com, $1,928,227
- ApartmentRatings.com, $1,691,223
- Golfsmith, $1,669,038
- Vast, $1,455,373
- VacationRentals.com, $1,421,483
- VRBO, $1,034,535
- HomeAway, $884,072
- ExpertVillage, $808,083
- WebmasterWorld, $769,794
- New Home Source, $563,245
- Ticket City, $554,225
- Academic Superstore, $551,353
- Spiceworks, $543,295
- CheapStingyBargains.com, $537,803
- Calendars.com, $489,395
- Solarwinds, $438,009
- National Instruments, $405,766
- UShip, $371,866
- Austin American Statesman, $315,876
- NaturallyCurly.com, $304,882
- Offers.com, $303,974
- Apartment Home Living, $260,799
- Aspyr Media, $257,203
- Deals2Buy, $215,481
- Fox 7 Austin, $204,597
- Freescale, $184,797
- Gowalla, $181,514
- BuildASign, $150,811
- NetSpend, $140,665
- SelfStorage.com, $139,831
- B Side Entertainment, $125,566
- GreatRentals.com, $122,003
- Austin Chronicle, $120,594
- ThatRentalSite.com, $113,352
- KVUE ABC Austin, $103,988
What motivated this list? I saw an an interesting post on Quora recently asking about the most successful consumer web startups to come out of Austin. Despite living her for 10 years, I’m still surprised by the quiet little success stories I uncover, so I thought it would be interesting to see if I could find any new ones that might be overlooked by the startup press and the Statesman. So I pulled the list of Austin startups from Crunchbase, AreaStartups, and my memory and then got data from SEMRush on the estimated “Search Engines Traffic Value,” which is a function of a) rankings, and b) the value of a site’s keywords. From the perspective of an SEO, this list represents which websites in Austin are most successful at attracting organic traffic from Google.
One interesting factoid– Austin is home to 5 out of the Top 10, and 14 of the Top 20 SEO power websites in Texas (travelocity.com, match.com, ti.com, dealtaker.com among them).
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