Archive for June, 2007

• Putting Alexa Rank to the Test | Posted by B Jones on Jun 29 2007
  

  Alexa rank. We all know it’s totally unreliable as an accurate ranking for websites, but for some reason, we still keep checking it. Well, at least I do.
  Today, I was trying to explain to someone why Alexa rank is so unreliable. It didn’t seem like they were quite getting it, so I […]

• What Personalized Search Really Means | Posted by B Jones on Jun 26 2007
  

  If you ask someone at Google why they implemented personalized search, I’m sure they would explain how it helps to improve the quality of search for the users. Well, that might be true for some, but my reaction so far to personalized search has been somewhere between skeptical, and slightly annoyed.
  Well, today I added […]

• I’m a Mover and a Shaker! | Posted by B Jones on Jun 14 2007
  

  I was pleasantly surprised to see that one of my sites, MyIPNeighbors.com made it onto the Alexa Movers & Shakers list

  This was the result of the site being featured on Digg.com last week. The site went from about 200 visits per day, to over 23,000 visits on the day it was featured on Digg. […]

• View Public Stats for Thousands of Web Sites | Posted by B Jones on Jun 09 2007
  

  The other day, while Viewing my statcounter.com stats, my finger slipped, and I clicked my Yahoo Backlinks bookmarklet, and here’s the gem I accidentally stumbled upon.
  http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site%3Astatcounter.com+summary
  Statcounter gives you the option to have your stats public or private, and there are tons of people who chose to leave them public. This info is useful […]