How Reliable Is Alexa Rank For 100,000+ Sites?
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Wow, I’m at this site of mine here which I don’t really do much with anymore and I’m suprised to see an Alexa Ranking of 1.1 million. I know this site gets less than 20 visitors a day.
Meanwhile my Lomi Lomi site averages at least 100 visitors a day and it shows an Alexa Ranking of 1.5 million… A new Power Blog site that I built for my client who is a Financial Analyst shows an Alexa of 753,000 and she’s only averaging 50 visitors a day.
I can understand that there are update times and everything but that really doesn’t make sense for my lomi site as it used to have an Alexa of 700,000 for almost a year and now it gets more visitors and shows as 1.5m Weird!
Is Blogging Right For your Business
Head on over to my new site SEO Publicity and check out how whether you should be blogging or not.
To Blog or Not to Blog, that is the question! The same answer does not apply for everyone…
“Imagine for a moment that a blog is like a huge toolbox…
Inside this toolbox are all sorts of tools that help you:
- Get visitors from hundreds or even thousands of other websites to come to your site for free
(send these visitors to your offers, afiliate url’s or make money when they click on advertisements - Get as many links as you want for free
(even very high PageRank links which rapidly increases your search engine ratings) - Be 100x more search engine friendly than the majority of websites online.
(assuming that you are using a “seo-tweaked ” version of Wordpress) - Have your content syndicated on 100’s or thousands of other websites : )
- Gain popularity in Web2.0 sites which brings more visitors and raises your brand awareness
- Deliver personal messages to your subscribers via RSS feeds
(100% deliverability + reach “more sophisticated users” who would not subscribe to your email list) - Publish your content easily and professionally without being technically savvy
(if you can use email, you can blog!) - Establish your reputation as an authority in your niche
(If not now, when?)”
SEO Publicity 4 -24 - 08
Google VR to Replace Pagerank?
Big changes may be coming as rumors say Google is planning to roll out a new Digg-like rating system called VR (Visitor Rating) which is similar to Digg.
Rumor has it that the new update will happen in the next 2 weeks during the next Google toolbar update. This would be huge news for SEO and has many implications. Spammy sites will no longer be able to hold high spots, but what about black-hatters that want to bring down their competition?
Another big rumor is that Google will be removing the backlink data for websites. If this happens it will be harder to perform SEO by seeing all the competitions’ backlinks and getting all the same links…
June Search Statistics from Comscore
Search is rising steadily. In May 2007, Comscore recorded 7.3 billion searches - in June the numbers rose to 8 billion!
The following are the US search statistics for June 2007 as compared to May 2007:
- Google > 49.5% - down from 50.7%
- Yahoo > 25.1% - down from 26.4%
- MSN > 13.2% - up from 10.3%
- Ask > 5.0% - no change
- AOL > 4.2% - down from 4.6%
The following are worldwide statistics for June 2007 as compared to May 2007:
- Google > 4 billion searches - up from 3.6 billion
- Yahoo > 2 billion searches - no change
- MSN > 1.1 billion searches - up from 757 million
- Ask > 403 million searches - up from 376 million
- AOL > 341 million searches - down from 364 million
As we can see Microsoft has had a huge gain from May to June, also Ask broke the 400 million mark for the first time ever. Google has lost some of their US marketshare to Microsoft but have had a substantial gain in worldwide search. Very interesting!
