Lets face it, bloggers love stats and rankings, even if they are based upon meaningless data. For some it is an ego thing, or just a measure of their own worth or progress to achieve whatever goals they have set for themselves, and for others it is monetary. If you want to sell advertising on your blog other than PPC or CPM based, you need to have some kind of carrot to wave at advertisers to encourage them to part with their advertising dollars.
Adage Power 150
Over the last few days for instance I noticed that Advertising Age have rejigged their
Over the last year I have given a fair amount of coverage to PayPerPost, who now house the service along with other endeavours under the name
Alexa Rating Changes?
For the last few months I have noticed a fairly substantial decline in my Alexa rating despite an upturn in traffic after the Christmas holidays. The traffic hasn't been as high as during the PageRank updates in October 2007, but certainly higher than the average for most of last year, even factoring in some downturn in Stumbleupon traffic.
Quantcast provide real data because I am Quantified with their code embedded in every page
We can compare that data with Alexa
I have also had some incompatibility problems with a few users of Internet Explorer with some of the Javascript widgets, though the errors