http://loosesuits.com/notes/ LooseSuits Thread: website ranking tools en Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:45:59 +0000 http://loosesuits.com/web/notes/9388/p/1/#response-102034 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:34:33 infodoodads 102034 <p>Oh, our blogelebrity is C-list. At least it's not D-list I guess. :(</p> <p>That's a pretty cool tool! </p> http://loosesuits.com/web/notes/9388/p/1/#response-100307 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:10:54 kineda 100307 <p><a href="http://www.kineda.com/are-you-an-a-list-bloglebrity/">Are You an A-List Bloglebrity?</a> </p> http://loosesuits.com/web/notes/9388/p/1/#response-99499 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:27:44 Mike 99499 <p>Good link Mark, I haven't seen that one before. </p> http://loosesuits.com/web/notes/9388/p/1/#response-99498 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:55:49 MarkWiseman 99498 <p><a href="http://www.blogpulse.com/index.html">Blogpulse</a> from Nielsen BuzzMetrics is interesting.<br /> Mark </p> http://loosesuits.com/web/notes/9388/p/1/#response-98193 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:43:09 BinaryMoon 98193 <p>Just signed up with compete and am having a play with their api. It's given me the site ranks for them which is great. I figure the more of these services I can use the better so if anyone knows of any others I'd appreciate a comment :)</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://loosesuits.com/web/notes/9388/p/1/#response-98186 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:21:15 BinaryMoon 98186 <p>I agree with pretty much all of what you say, but when you want to compare external websites that you have no control over I can't think of any other way.</p> <p>I shall take a look at compete - thanks for pointing it out :) </p> http://loosesuits.com/web/notes/9388/p/1/#response-98168 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:26:03 Oli 98168 <p>There's also Compete (.com) which offers similar statistics to Alexa, from toolbar users like Alexa.</p> <p>Frankly, I think they're all shit -- partly because, as you say, they can all be gamed but also because they're either massively scaled (see below) or they're for internal use.</p> <p>By scaled I mean: Alexa and Compete use reports from a tiny number of users, and extrapolate from there to try and represent the total numbers of people on the web. In that strand, some niches have fewer (proportionally speaking) users with the toolbars and some have higher. For example a webdev/seo niche is more likely to have them while the niche for my-little-pony is probably going to have very few.</p> <p>And because they're so scaled, it only takes a couple more people with the toolbar to massively increase your rankings.</p> <p>PageRank isn't a viable statistic because it factors in too many things. It's used to help Google generate search results, not show what sites are generally better than others, even how much traffic or subscribers one site has over another.</p> <p>The only way you could have rock-solid results is by collecting all the log data from every webserver in the world, or install spyware in every user agent. I don't see that happening. </p> http://loosesuits.com/web/notes/9388/p/1/#response-98143 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:06:31 BinaryMoon 98143 <p>I've been having a think about the variouse ways of "ranking" websites and was wondering if anybody knows of any services that can be used for measuring success or popularity of sites.</p> <p>The obvious ones are Google PR, Technorati, and Alexa, but I am sure there must be others.</p> <p>I am also wondering about the usefulness of these measurements. The three I mentioned can all be gamed/ changed so can we rely on them? I'm thinking not, but until something better comes along I guess we have to make do.</p> <p>So does anyone know of anything similar/ better? </p>