Do you use Alexa? Or do you use their alter-ego competitor coming of age, Compete.com? Or do you use both?
Compete.com has this to say about their traffic vs. Alexa’s traffic:

According to them, they had more traffic than Alexa in September. However, its impossible to see what Alexa has to say about this, because if Alexa […]

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Lately I’ve heard lots of good things about Compete.com, an Alexa competitor. However, when I went to go grab some screen shots for today’s post, it was down.
That’s not a good way to compete with Alexa.
However, we can see here that since its launch in late 06, Compete.com has become a wildly popular traffic comparison […]

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As a unique idea for a developing story, I have chosen to ONLY promote my blog through Entrecard. It offered me everything I need anyway, free 125×125 advertising across nearly 300 blogs.
I have been actively dropping cards and buying adverts every day. Here have been the results so far:

These are UNIQUE visitors to my […]

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Maddox is the notorious author behind TheBestPageInTheUniverse.net, otherwise known to be hosted at Maddox.XMission.com. Make no mistake, he is a web 1.0 HERO. He has written some of the funniest stuff I have ever read on the internet, and his following is damn loyal. Here are some of my favorites:
I-Robot in a nutshell
Children’s Drawings
Garfield Sucks […]

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With X-Mas season in full swing, it stands to reason that there are plenty of cash-traffic trails to follow.
For example, if I had a golden SEO wand to wave, I would set up an affiliate site for Ipods, and position myself around keywords I know people are going to be searching for.
Make no mistake, the […]

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Here’s a real no brainer: After thanksgiving, a lot of traffic shifts into online retailers. I mentioned it in my last post, and we can already see it taking effect:

Look at the nice spiking we start to see in amazon now, after thanksgiving. It’s more pronounced and dramatic than the general uptrend it’s been in […]

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So the other day, I mentioned how sweet it is to be a well positioned recipe website in November. I showed how direct navigation sites such as recipes.com and cooking.com saw nice spikes, and top google results such as Allrecipes.com, Foodnetwork.com and epicurious.com all saw amazing traffic as well.
Now lets take a look at what […]

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I’ve often commented that sites seem to get even MORE traffic when John Chow trashes them. Just look back to the hilarious review Chow gave to AndrewTalk.com where he basically says that AndrewTalk is crap, with stolen content, and has no clue why he ordered the review in the first place.

Once again, Chow is runnin’ […]

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Sometimes in hindsight certain things look like no-brainers. I was doing a little digging around to see how well recipe and cooking related sites do in November during the lead-up to Thanksgiving, the biggest cooking day of the year. The results were interesting, but utterly expected.
What I was targeting were websites that the majority […]

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I predict everyon’e Alexa will drop today because its the holidays and people aren’t online en masse as they are during normal days. Though I bet YouTube and sites like that go higher as families gather ’round the computer to watch some nouveau TV.

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