Comments on: Stats: Alexa Lost the War. Compete is Too Slow.

By: Va multumesc! | Tudi.ro

Va multumesc! | Tudi.ro — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:13:50 +0000

[...] cum ii ziceam si lui Alex de la Blogsessive, nu sunt un stats-whore care plange la fiecare abonat pierdut si da bairam la fiecare incrementare [...]

By: Alex, Blogsessive

Alex, Blogsessive — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:45:10 +0000

Tudi: You’re right. Stats can have that effect of feeling that your efforts are rewarded and pushing you to do even better. I’ve experience that feeling myself, and probably, that’s why it sometimes become frustrating knowing that the reality is distorted.

By: Tudi

Tudi — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:22:46 +0000

Alex, personally, stats keep me going. When I saw my blog rise from 0 to 40 subscribers in the first month, it made me want more and that, in turn, made me try to come up with articles of a higher quality. It’s a win-win situation for me and my readers.

I wouldn’t be so harsh on John Chow tbh. Indeed, he sure posts a lot of crap lately, but he also has some black pearl articles that honestly helped me (and probably others) a lot. I guess going completely offtopic without losing your fanbase is one of the benefits of being a renowned blogger.

By: Alex, Blogsessive

Alex, Blogsessive — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:57:33 +0000

Rajesh: Under no circumstances I’m trying to analyze John Chow’s posts’ quality. We’re only talking about traffic levels, and no matter how hard we try to negate it, his very active community proves us wrong.

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:36:14 +0000

I agree that problogger does drive search traffic for keywords relating to blogging…but what i meant is, there are so many other bloggers who command much more traffic than problogger for keywords that are more searched than those related to “blogging”.

i am speaking in comparative terms.Also i don’t know how you believe john chow still gets more traffic. He is not only blacklisted by google but he has converted his blog into more of a food blog these days…(I don’t know wheter he has changed his blogging niche or style again as it is a long time since i had been there)…

and i am also not sure whether google shows mercy on him for his food blogging skills…either you see food related posts or some sponsored posts.nothing much on the rest…but yes he still sticks to making money online (for Jhon chow)

By: KG Lew

KG Lew — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:40:58 +0000

i think that websites like alexa and so forth as just used for a basic impression of how your sites are doing …. you can’t hold any of these sites statistics as official or a real measure of your sites growth. keep in mind that your website is on the internet which can be viewed by anyone… but only people with alexa or technorati will be able to help you with alexa or technorati ranks..

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:43:19 +0000

@Alex

Yeah, I know about advertisers aspect. I meant that everyone both bloggers and advertises should just drop it.

By: Alex, Blogsessive

Alex, Blogsessive — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:21:50 +0000

Rarst: We “complain” because of that contradictory part I mentioned in the article. It affects our image in front of possible advertisers. Because a more trustworthy algorithm was replaced by a poor one. Not because our ranking start with a 4 or 3 instead of 2 maybe. Not because of the actual value, but because it lacks realism.

Rajesh: Alexa does not give a damn about search traffic or social media traffic. Tested both, and both affected the Alexa ranking just the same.

Further more, are you telling me that ProBlogger does not get search traffic? With the huge amount of content available, and most of all, with his great SERP on “blogging”.

I don’t know how he did, but Google shows him 3rd for the “blogging” keyword. Do you really believe that this position, which is amazing for such a general and competitive keyword, surpassed only by Wikipedia and Blogger.com, does not provide a good deal of search engine traffic?

Alexa does the math pretty wrong if you ask me.

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:35:03 +0000

One thing you should remember is problogger and john chow dot com does not have many searchable articles.i mean those are not articles which people search for on the web.they are more dependent on the social folks like bloggers.But nothing can beat the search traffic.

There are so many blogs out, there who command a lot more traffic(much higher), but not so well known among the social community…

But yes i do agree that alexa has lots of weakness…however it does not mean that problogger and john chow get the max. traffic but still ranked poorly by alexa.

infact what these folks get, may not be comparable with the top traffic drivers from search engines…

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:22:23 +0000

I hear a lot of complaining about Alexa. That much I wish people stopped complaining and started ignoring it already.

By the way numbers are funny already but details are even more so. For example Alexa thinks that almost 50% of my traffic comes from South Africa. When it’s actually little over 1%. Talk about precision…