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Google toolbar for chrome browser
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Low value traffic improve Alexa Rankings
I rently read a blog post about Alexa becoming worthless due to the fact its ranking system appears to be getting less accurate.
Personally, I have always liked Alexa, but maybe it’s because I know how to use it better than the people who critisise it do. I know it can be manipulated and is no good for proper tracking, but for keeping an eye on trends, monitoring specific sites and other uses, I found it very useful.
I also noticed the change in tracking recently, but have come up with a different conclusion to most. When using Alexa, I don’t only watch the traffic rankings, I also watch where visitors come from and what the traffic rank is in other countries.
On a lot of sites I monitor I have been noticing that general traffic rankings are dropping, but users from overseas is rising. Specific % rises are coming from previously under developed countries, India being a prime example.
One of my theories for why this is effecting Alexa rankings is the fact that Windows Vista is becoming more and more popular in the UK and is probably not as popular yet in developing countries. (must try and find a breakdown of % number of vista users in each country)
So why would this effect Alexa rankings? Simple really, as I write, the Alexa toolbar still isn’t available to Vista users.
What this means is visitors using older systems are still being tracked, but people with newer systems (using vista) are not.
As people using newer systems are generaly more affluant, site that receive poorer visitors will appear to be doing better in the Alexa rankings.
Comments are closed, but anyone who wants to post a comment email me at tj @ seo64.co.uk and I will add it for you.
Conference Centres Search Engine
After realising just how many conference centres we currently have listed in the database, I decided to create a very simple UK Conference Centres Search Engine.
It currently has over 5,000 UK conference centres listed and over the coming months their details will be updated and new conference centres will be added.
Business Continuity Management BCM
Business continuity management BCM is a process that helps organisations manage risks and ensures continuity of critical functions and effective recovery in the event of unexpected problems.
New bot coming from SAVVIS
One of my sites started getting hid hard a few months ago by a strange bot that appears to read javascript and therefore messes up both my Statcounter stats and my google AdSense stats. After a bit of searching around I discovered it was connected to Kavam.net, Limelight Networks, SearchME and that it was a new spider (Charlotte) from the visual search engine SearchMe
Yesterday I noticed a new visitor in my stats using the same set up, Mozilla 5.0 and Linux, but this time it was coming from a different IP ange 165.193.254.13 which appears to come from SAVVIS (SAVVIS Communications Corporation)
I posted about it on Jill Olkoski blog, and she has written more here, which is a better place to post comments or read more about any updates.
3229 Search
3229 is a new search engine that only searches pages from within the UK Small Business Directory.
3229.co.uk provides a way for business owners to create poster style web pages completely free of charge, the pages are easy to set up, easily editable, and can be used to help promote the business owners own website.
To find out more visit the How to get listed in 3229 section, set up a listing and see how it works. It’s 100% free and if you don’t like your listing you cansimply delete it and all your information is removed from the system.
Top 10 Digital Cameras
Following on from making my page about Top 10 Mobile Phones today I started a site about Digital Cameras and set it up in a similar format.
Digital Cameras
Top 10 Mobile Phones
I upated my page of Top 10 Mobile Phones again today, and whilst I was doing it I also created pages for the different manufacturers. I’ve only done the 4 main manufacturers so far, when I get a bit more time I will also add LG mobile phones and Blackberry mobile phones.
Samsung Mobile Phones.
Profesional website design - under £300
Proof that you can get Profesional website design for under £300
Found a great site that demonstrates there are still talented website designers out there who don’t charge the earth.
searchme visual search
With visual sarch improving all the time how long will it be until it is in everyday use for searching? searchme are now opening up for beta testing