More on Alexa's Ranking

As we close out the month, we will soon find that Dr. West, Jim West, is still number 1.

Good for him! Although this is a fun group to be apart of, and ranking do not mean anything (unless you can unseat Dr. West), sometimes, the amount of traffic you get can help you in other errors (such as server space/bandwidth)

Recently, on another blog somewhere (here, here and here for starters), the question of how accurate the Alexa ranking are erupted into a firestorm. Well, I went digging, and found that several ideas to make sure the rankings are a bit more accurate.

Here are some ideas:

Several of the sources I found indicate that the widget is one of the ways Alexa collects data.

Posted on July 28, 2009 at 11:59 pm by Joel · Permalink
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  • http://bgjackofalltrades.wordpress.com/ Bitsy Griffin

    Alexa’s widget is built using JavaScript. Blogger users can put it up, but WordPress users won’t be able to unless they have an independent hoster.

    I wish WP would change that restriction. It’s the one thing I miss about blogger.

  • http://bgjackofalltrades.wordpress.com Bitsy Griffin

    Alexa’s widget is built using JavaScript. Blogger users can put it up, but WordPress users won’t be able to unless they have an independent hoster.

    I wish WP would change that restriction. It’s the one thing I miss about blogger.

  • http://www.thechurchofjesuschrist.us/ Polycarp

    Ugh! Yeah, I forgot about that. I hope that more people install sparky, however, which does help stabilize the numbers.

  • http://www.thechurchofjesuschrist.us Polycarp

    Ugh! Yeah, I forgot about that. I hope that more people install sparky, however, which does help stabilize the numbers.

  • http://hiscrivener.wordpress.com/ HiScrivener

    How do you and Lopez get one of these Biblioblog thingys anyway? Bribe? Wal-Mart?

  • http://hiscrivener.wordpress.com HiScrivener

    How do you and Lopez get one of these Biblioblog thingys anyway? Bribe? Wal-Mart?

  • http://www.thechurchofjesuschrist.us/ Polycarp

    http://biblioblogtop50.wordpress.com/ Tell them that you want to be included. That way, we can place a few more conservatives on top.

  • http://www.thechurchofjesuschrist.us Polycarp

    http://biblioblogtop50.wordpress.com/ Tell them that you want to be included. That way, we can place a few more conservatives on top.

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