Chances are if you have cruised around the scrapbooking web at all you have seen the Scrapbooking Top 50 banner. Whether you are a retailer looking for some exposure on the internet or a scrapbooker looking for the hottest scrapbooking sites online Scrapbooking Top 50 has something for you.

Launching in 1998 http://www.Scrapbookingtop50.com has been around since "beginning" of scrapbooking as we know it today. From home parties to the surge of thousands of online stores, Scrapbooking Top 50 realized where so many websites out there that scrapbookers were becoming overwhelmed. Wanting to create a website where customers could come and find anything and everything related to scrapbooking, Scrapbooking Top 50 was born.

For consumers, Scrapbooking Top 50 provides its users with free, fast access to a wide variety of goods and services from the full spectrum of the scrapbook industry. From retail stores, online stores, communities, special events, trade shows, fairs and more. Scrapbooking Top 50 lists the companies that make scrapbooking HAPPEN!

Scrapbooking Top 50 offers retailers free listing service. Any site related to scrapbooking can register. Once they have registered they will be given a Scrapbooking Top 50 counter. This counter will tally every unique IP address that visits their site every day. (So if someone visits a site 10 times that day it still only counts once.) It's these numbers that when added together determine how a website is ranked on the Top 50 counter. The more the hits the lower (better) your ranking on Top 50.

Being listed on the Scrapbooking Top 50 counter allows scrapbooking retailers, event coordinators, and websites, we to get their information out there in a place where the scrapbooking consumer can find it. Not to mention watching your popularity grow from the exposure on Scrapbooking Top 50 is fun. As Dawn McDowell former website coordinator of an online community said "When I would log in each day there would be a post about where we were at that day on the top 50. Since we were a small board the number started in the hundreds and we would set little goal to get bellow 200, 175 etc. It gave a little sense of excitement to our posting and chatting."

Having the counter also offers a sense of prestige. The # 1 ranked site Two Peas in a Bucket (http://www.twopeasinabucket.com) 2P's as it's affectionately known around the web has held the top counter spot now since 2003 and enjoys holding onto that ranking. The first "Alumni" spot though belongs to Scrapbooking.com (http://www.scrapbooking.com) this website was the first Scrapbooking Top 50 site to reach the ONE BILLION hits list. Once a site reaches that milestone they are retired to Scrapbooking Top 50 alumni.

Scrapbooking Top 50 offers something for the scrapbooking consumer and retailer alike. Whether you are looking for the hottest scrapbooking sites, a new online store to check out, or a way to increase traffic to your website, check you Scrapbooking Top 50 you are sure to find just what you need.