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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

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IzeaRanks & RealRank – How Many Lies Can You Tell Your Advertisers?

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.

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Over the last few days for instance I noticed that Advertising Age have rejigged their

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The Pied Piper Of PayPerPost?

Pied Piper of PayPerPostOver 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 Izea. There are multiple reasons why I have supported PayPerPost and similar programs so strongly, and yet at the same time have never reviewed a link buying / selling service. I have mentioned link buying and selling in passing, and also a couple of Wordpress plugins, but those plugins generally allow you to sell links which have a nofollow. My emphasis both in editorial about services and in the few reviews I have myself written is to encourage the writing of quality content with editorial links. Compensation in whatever form should be based upon the time involved, expertise, and possibly the size and influence of the audience, and not based upon any SEO benefit to a site or service being reviewed.
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Remarkable Traffic From Alexa Themselves?

Many webmasters would say that Alexa data is meaningless, and that there is no benefit in gaining in Alexa rating, other than possibly from various metrics used for advertising, and "meaningless" ratings charts to brag about.

But whilst we await an advertising metric which can't be gamed, there is certainly one measurable benefit of having a good Alexa score, or more importantly a significant gain in Alexa rating.

Alexa Can Drive Real Qualified Traffic

But where from? The Top 10 Movers and Shakers page.

Due to the sudden influx in traffic over the last week due to the Google PageRank updates, I was

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Final Word On Alexa Redirects

Whilst I have mentioned the problems with using Alexa redirects for links in the past, when talking about linking mistakes, I am going to leave it to Matt to give you a pictorial lesson on exactly why it is bad to use them (if you still need to be convinced). SEO Basics and Alexa Rank Mistakes He has put in some extra effort and created some high quality pictures to describe what he is talking about. We have a rival for Rand Fishkin's Googlebot in the making… Andy Beard - Niche Marketing Blog search engine performance, Wordpress and general niche and affiliate marketing tips Original Article: Disclosure Whilst the content I create, however it is distributed is commercial, relevance is always considered before any potential financial gain. Disclosure Policy Contact Tags Lead To Related Content on This
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How To Launch a NSFW Site On Mainstream Video Sites

A subtle mix of tantalizing facts about the most controversial internet industry displayed provocatively on a semi-naked female body can turn into a traffic whirlwind.

Whilst Youtube and Myspace don’t seem to consider the content of the video NSFW, I have taken the opportunity to mask certain references.
No pictorial content would be looked on as NSFW in most countries I am aware of, but there is certainly some female flesh shown from below the neckline.

It should be noted that this was intended at least in part to be a viral marketing campaign for Good Magazine, but there has been an evident boost in traffic in other directions.

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Compete Toolbar Bug With Google Reader – Compete vs Alexa vs Quantcast Stats

I have had long term problems with the Compete Toolbar as I pointed out some time ago on my friend Paul’s blog, I think I actually made that comment on my first visit to his blog.

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Alexa Finally Provide Some Useful Data

Ok that is a bit tongue in cheek – Alexa data has always had some use for sites that are not gamed, and within similar niches, and it is always nice to see.

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Pixelotto failing?

Pixelotto, the follow-up by Alex Tew to his MillionDollarHomePage.com success is now one month old, and facing rapid decline rather than explosive or even sustained growth. Detailed Analysis.
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Tagging and traffic analysis

It is Friday, but I am still going to nag people about SEO and tagging.

It seems in the last 24 hrs that Alexa have caught up a little with their statistics

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Alexa stats now lagging by 6 days

Lots of people snub Alexa for providing statistics that are easily gamed, or lack relevance for the global market. As an example Jason Calacanis was recently proposing to test different ways Alexa can be gamed..

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Mike Filsaime | Social Marketing | Copyright Violations

Mike Filsaime always provides real quality in his free reports, and The Death of Internet Marketing is no exception.

I have read all 59 pages of this free report. It certainly isn’t junk, and it shouldn’t be ignored.

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Broken websites

I haven’t got hundreds of IT specialists looking after my websites, so the odd problems (such as my tags not working yet), are to be expected. Read more on Broken websites…

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Pageflakes updated – new look for the Web 2.0 Ajax Desktop

As an example lets look at Alexa Whilst on the surface it looks like Netvibes are way out in front of their competitors (and in some ways they are), the other services are much younger. Pageflakes (and friends) is catching up with Netvibes, having similar traffic (as per Alexa) to where Netvibes were 6 months ago.
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