Comments on: Compete Toolbar Bug With Google Reader – Compete vs Alexa vs Quantcast Stats

By: The Pied Piper Of PayPerPost? | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing

The Pied Piper Of PayPerPost? | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:18:30 +0000

[...] Alexa and Compete are not very relative to niches, and not enough people install Quantcast code on their site to get a real measure. [...]

By: The Pied Piper Of PayPerPost? | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing

The Pied Piper Of PayPerPost? | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:18:30 +0000

[...] Alexa and Compete are not very relative to niches, and not enough people install Quantcast code on their site to get a real measure. [...]

By: The Pied Piper Of PayPerPost? | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing

The Pied Piper Of PayPerPost? | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:18:30 +0000

[...] Alexa and Compete are not very relative to niches, and not enough people install Quantcast code on their site to get a real measure. [...]

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:34:53 +0000

Hi Pat, you mention it as a factor for people with no data, but not for the people with what I would class as “screwed” data. Quantcast and Compete have data for Shoemoney, but it is seriously messed up.
Some of the sites I can even grab their keyword data (I am sure Graywolf will hate that) because they aren’t registered.

These sites don’t use the Quantcast code, but they do have figures for them… that are totally wrong – it is not the same as the ones in your raw data with 15,000,000

Technorati can be gamed just by being in a Blog network and lots of other ways.

Yahoo links include nofollow links, forum, blog comments even if nofollowed, sigs etc etc

By: Pat McCarthy

Pat McCarthy — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:09:08 +0000

Hi Andy,

Cool analysis of your own. I agree that some of the Compete and Quantcast data is screwy, especially if you arenâ€™t â€œquantifiedâ€ by Quantcast, and although in your blog post you say I donâ€™t account for that, I actually do mention in the article that there are problems with that data.

Also, because Iâ€™m using that data combined with Alexa, Technorati, Pagerank, and Yahoo links I think the overall picture becomes pretty accurate to the popularity and influence of these blogs

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:37:27 +0000

Quantcast stats are now included

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:02:47 +0000

I have looked at it, but they might be using some of the same data sources as Compete.

I am going to add Quantcast figures to the list for all the same sites.

By: Michel Fortin

Michel Fortin — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:27:19 +0000

Andy, have you checked out QuantCast.com? It culls additional information from ISPs, ad networks and major websites to estimate traffic and traffic demographics.

http://www.quantcast.com

By: Paul OFlaherty

Paul OFlaherty — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:36:04 +0000

Is the toolbar still broken? I haven’t even bothered to re-install since I first found the problem.