Comments on: Tips for the Day: Adsense is Wacked out This Week. The Alexa Widget is Coming Off Tonight

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:16:15 +0000

Hello “alexa new ranking system”
If you get a chance they’re a link in this piece to my previous piece where I show my alexa numbers make a giant change. And even since I wrote THIS piece my numbers have been falling. So I’m positive about the things affect your numbers now.

As for the sampling; it’s almost a certainty the user base doesn’t match the general population. Why would a normal person even care about the number? So I think those guys are fighting over nothing.

By: alexa new ranking system

alexa new ranking system — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:01:51 +0000

There is some controversy over how representative Alexa

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:43:11 +0000

Wow yourself! I’m just as amazed you found this to be a contenty ( I JUST made that word up). I thought of this a throwaway post because I only talked a little about multiple topics, and usually I talk a LOT about one thing. So…

1. Adsense kinda started acting right around midway through Saturday for me, but a lot of my money sites might have gotten “priced.” I’ll know better at the end of the day.

2. Myblog is good for making connections with people and you CAN do something at twitter, but blogcatalog is actually like a BETTER twitter than twitter, but i’s “old” so not getting a lot of press.

3. Akismet was not easy to figure out, I self commented to see what would happen. And somebody said THEY couldn’t comment over here too, so I turned it out and switched to Bad Behavior for a while. Then Google searched etc for verification…

4. Alexa. Well It worked for SURE until mid April. Then I stopped moving from that period until May 10. Took it off and 2 days later dropped from 729K to 264K. So I got a better score in that 3-4 week period. So I’m advise keeping if you’re seeing visible drops. When I go to the Alexa website and check your site, you’ve had a massive 3 month drop from 4.5 million to a score a little better than mines, and you have the widget. I’ll try without the widget again pretty soon to see if I stop moving, but for now…

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:01:10 +0000

Wow – so much to comment on…where to start!

1. I haven’t seen any deviations in my Adsense earning this week, but the way I use Adsense is a little different from the norm.

2. I joined Twitter and a half a dozen other social marketing sites and I can’t agree with you more. I see the potential for utilizing those things for driving the traffic, but I just can’t find the time to put into these sites to get the results. I do like MyBlogLog a lot so far – I think it’s my fav.

3. Re: training Askismet!!! How the heck did you figure that out? I can’t wait for you to get that thing trained so that I don’t have to go searching for your comments! LOL

4. I’m confused…did removing the Alexa widget improve your Alexa rating or did it get worse?

5. Thanks for the M Day wishes on my blog!