WSF Number One Again

WORLD SEA FISHING Wins Hitwise UK Top 10 Award – April to June 2008.

World Sea Fishing's website has ranked Number 1 in the Sports - Fishing online industry based on the market share of UK visits it has received for the April to June 2008 quarter. This is World Sea Fishing's 7th consecutive Number 1 award.

The Hitwise UK Top 10 Awards Programme celebrates the most successful UK websites in 160+ online industries. As Hitwise reports on the anonymous online usage and search behaviour of more than 8.43 million UK Internet users—the largest online sample of its kind—this unique awards programme recognises excellence in online performance through public popularity.

World Sea Fishing is an online Magazine, Community and Retail operation based in North Wales. World Sea Fishing was one of the first UK based online magazines that started in the late 90’s who expanded into early forms of “Social Networking” through its interactive forums.

World Sea Fishing now operates one of the largest databases of sea angling articles in the country and runs one of the most popular sea angling specific forums in the UK, with over 21,000 members who have posted over 1.2million posts.

World Sea Fishing Director, Mike Thrussell Jnr said, “The success of our website’s popularity is a result of operating a fine balance between our own produced articles in our online magazine and content driven by our members on our interactive forums”.

“One of our most successful strategies has been to put a wide variety of tips, tactics and how to guides online, mixed with opinion from our members. Community engagement is the future of all forms of media and WSF aims to continue to provide anglers with a platform for which they can discuss tips and tactics in a helpful and friendly environment.” Mike Thrussell Jnr said.

ABOUT WORLD SEA FISHING
World Sea Fishing is the UK’s largest online sea angling web site. World Sea Fishing is a wholly independent sea angling web site which is run and controlled by World Sea Fishing Ltd.

World Sea Fishing was founded in 1998 by Mike Thrussell Jnr and Snr. It began as a hobby site but has since evolved into the definitive resource for sea angling in the UK. WSF features engaging and informative articles and videos as well as diary blogs from our team of writers. WSF also harnesses the power of the internet by giving anglers the ability to discuss and help each other on all matters relating to sea angling via the WSF Community Forum.
World Sea Fishing has been featured in Angler's Mail Magazine, Total Sea Fishing Magazine, The Net Magazine and in the Sunday Telegraph, and has also featured on ITV1's The Web Review TV program gaining a top rating score of 8/10. World Sea Fishing is in the Yahoo! Top 100 Sporting Web sites list and has been featured on AOL's sites of the day.

World Sea Fishing currently attracts over 3.5 Million Page impressions with over 96,000 Absolute Unique Users per month. Over 245 new members join our community ever week.

WSF also operates WSF Tackle, an online tackle store.

ABOUT HITWISE
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