It is possible that there are bloggers who don’t care about their stats, but I am not one of them. If You Write It’s Google Pagerank is 3 and my Alexa Rank is-at the moment-148,702. I just installed the Compete add on for Firefox and it tells I have a Compete rank of 17-which is the Compete Rank for Blogspot-individual blogspot blogs don’t rate a rank on Compete. I am no longer listed on Real Rank as I have gone on record saying some pretty unpleasant things about PayPerPost-mainly that it sucks. And since Real Rank is really Payperpost Rank, I don’t guess I care much anyway.
I have a couple of stat tracker on this blog and I like to see who comes by and what keywords they used to get here. I use free tools, as I am curious, but also a bit of a cheapskate. Serious Webmaters, however, spend serious money of their stats. Alexa charges $1000 for their Top Ten Thousand List and $6,500 for the Top Hundred Thousand. Compete charges a monthly rate of $199 and Up for their Pro Services.
I’ve been chasing the magic Alexa Top 100,000 off and on for a couple of years now. I have cracked Alexa’s Top 100,000 a couple of times on a daily basis and my weekly Alexa rank has been close as well. So it is possible that I will break through sometime in the near future. But does it really matter? I guess I have to wait and see.
Compete’s Pro offers a number of services for $499 a month-things like a Site Referral Report, Keyword Destination Report, Site Comparison Report, and Paid vs. natural search breakdowns. You also have to pay to see things like the Top 200 Site List, Top 1,000 Site List, and the Top 15,000 Site List.
Among the more interesting bits of business in Compete Pro is finding sites that are driving traffic to your competitors-this helps you know you are targeting the right sites for advertising and sponsorships.
Compete Rank is currently only tracking U.S. Websites. Like Alexa, Compete has free tools and lists as well.
Climbing the ladder of Alexa or Compete means-in theory anyway-that more people are reading what you are writing and hopefully buying whatever you are selling. Use the data for good old fashioned SEO. Or just to see what weird keywords some people use.
Alexa has #1 Google, #2 Yahoo, #3 Myspace, #4 YouTube, #5 Facebook
Compete has #1 Google , #2 Yahoo, #3 MSN, #4 Live, #5 eBay
I am a sad statistics junkie, so I went to find the add-on you mention. All I can find is one called SearchStatus. It does give the Compete ranking, but I suspect that isn’t the one you meant.
I just added the Compete toolbar, one more layer of stuff on over crowded Firfox window.
I found it at http://tools.compete.com/
Alexa’s ranking system needed improvement which is something almost everyone could agree. Now it’s been altered, and unfortunately for Alexa, the consensus still lies in that direction.A number of people are happy with the changes, of course; some sites have seen huge increases, so they’re more than okay with the way things stand.
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Tanyaa
Internet Marketing
My own Alexa rank has fluctuated wildly since I have been paying attention to it. Have they improved it? I guess I didn’t notice.
It is fun to watch it go it and a bit depressing to watch it fall.
For those who thought that Google has the monopoly as far as search engines are concerned, well, think again. Though Google is still at the top, it has started receiving competition from various quarters albeit at a smaller scale. Alexa is one search engine that was thought to give some competition to Google in some quarters of the world. On the lines of Alexa and Google Trends, Complete, Inc has come up with Snapshot. Snapshot is thought to be much more accurate then Alexa but there are certain limitations that might thwart the popularity of Snapshot. Firstly, in Snapshot one can compare only three sites. Secondly, sites with less that 10000 uniques are excluded and thirdly, this is available only for the US audience. These three limitations still keep Google the favorite followed by Alexa.
Google has moved up in the Alexa rankings and is now placed in the second position behind a very consistent yahoo.com. Google has replaced MSN.com which is now placed at the third positions. However, the traffic reach of live.com is rapidly increasing and Microsoft is seemingly putting all its attention in Live.com. One need not be surprised if Live.com conquers the top position in the near future.
Wow, I have realized that my blog has only google rank 2, alexa rank 4.570.744, but compete rank is 37.
I really don’t know why but I’m fell happy with this one.
My blog here: http://freshhome.wordpress.com
Thanks your post.