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Paperticket.co.uk closes down
October 21, 2008
Recent research from Hitwise UK reveals that the number of visits to paperticket.co.uk, recently closed down on suspicion of fraud, have increased 24x over the last 6 weeks. Looking at search terms driving traffic to the site shows that 87% of their search traffic was from paid search. They were paying for the names of current bands and artists, the most popular ones driving traffic to the site are AC/DC, The Killers and Kings of Leon. Consumers who had purchased from the site are being advised to contact a government advice site consumerdirect.gov.uk, which was the most popular website visited after paperticket.co.uk on the 20/10/08.
