Comments on: 0.000725% say my site rocks http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/03/14/0000725-say-my-site-rocks/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:54:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Ken http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/03/14/0000725-say-my-site-rocks/#comment-16101 Ken Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:20:40 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/03/14/0000725-say-my-site-rocks/#comment-16101 Ok, I put the little graphic in at the footer of <a href="http://www.japaneconomynews.com/" rel="nofollow">japaneconomynews.com</a>. Right now, it gets about 1/5 of TPR's traffic, but it's been catching in terms of Alexa ranking (JEN only gets about 1,000 visits per day, but many more proportionally than TPR from the US, where I think people are more likely to have the Alexa/IE combination installed). Ok, I put the little graphic in at the footer of japaneconomynews.com. Right now, it gets about 1/5 of TPR’s traffic, but it’s been catching in terms of Alexa ranking (JEN only gets about 1,000 visits per day, but many more proportionally than TPR from the US, where I think people are more likely to have the Alexa/IE combination installed).

]]> By: Ken http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/03/14/0000725-say-my-site-rocks/#comment-16030 Ken Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:32:01 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/03/14/0000725-say-my-site-rocks/#comment-16030 I guess so! Ok, I'll be putting that in! I guess so! Ok, I’ll be putting that in!

]]> By: Ken Y-N http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/03/14/0000725-say-my-site-rocks/#comment-16006 Ken Y-N Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:09:05 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/03/14/0000725-say-my-site-rocks/#comment-16006 Ken, I didn't realise it was quite as bad as it seems to be! My daily rank has zoomed up to 97,201 for yesterday, and it will be interesting to see what putting the widget on each page does. However, things link TextLindAds uses Alexa ranking as 15% of its calculation for your blog worth, so cheating one's way up the scale there can actually be profitable. Ken, I didn’t realise it was quite as bad as it seems to be! My daily rank has zoomed up to 97,201 for yesterday, and it will be interesting to see what putting the widget on each page does.

However, things link TextLindAds uses Alexa ranking as 15% of its calculation for your blog worth, so cheating one’s way up the scale there can actually be profitable.

]]> By: Ken http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/03/14/0000725-say-my-site-rocks/#comment-15996 Ken Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:17:30 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/03/14/0000725-say-my-site-rocks/#comment-15996 Yeah, installing the toolbar and setting your page as the home page absolutely has an effect. It's so innacurate it's hilarious. But, people think it's important, which I suppose is all that's important. Yeah, installing the toolbar and setting your page as the home page absolutely has an effect. It’s so innacurate it’s hilarious. But, people think it’s important, which I suppose is all that’s important.

]]> By: Ken Y-N http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/03/14/0000725-say-my-site-rocks/#comment-15985 Ken Y-N Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:14:52 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/03/14/0000725-say-my-site-rocks/#comment-15985 Ken, looking around the web, mostly at articles that say how inaccurate Alexa is, I thought I'd try sticking the Alexa widget on my web site for a week. I'll remove it after a week, but I just want to see what happens. I saw another trick on how to give a click-through URL via Alexa to get extra uniques, or even just installing the Alexa toolbar for IE will do. Ken, looking around the web, mostly at articles that say how inaccurate Alexa is, I thought I’d try sticking the Alexa widget on my web site for a week. I’ll remove it after a week, but I just want to see what happens.

I saw another trick on how to give a click-through URL via Alexa to get extra uniques, or even just installing the Alexa toolbar for IE will do.

]]> By: Ken http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/03/14/0000725-say-my-site-rocks/#comment-15982 Ken Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:37:36 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/2007/03/14/0000725-say-my-site-rocks/#comment-15982 The Alexa project's going well, though. Up to 223,903 this morning. We finally broke past the 600,000 mark. I had a chance to see someone's stats who's ranked around 300,000. We have about double the traffic of that person, which was interesting. Ah...Alexa...tell us more sweet lies... The Alexa project’s going well, though. Up to 223,903 this morning. We finally broke past the 600,000 mark.

I had a chance to see someone’s stats who’s ranked around 300,000. We have about double the traffic of that person, which was interesting. Ah…Alexa…tell us more sweet lies…

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