Posts Tagged "alexa"

Top 10 Websites

Posted by on Sep 17, 2009 in Websites | 0 comments

Top 10 Websites

Image via CrunchBase Alexa.com has released the latest Top 10 Websites by Traffic. Google has taken over the #1 dethroning longtime holder Yahoo! Even more interesting is that Facebook has surpassed Yahoo!, as well. Google has three properties in the Top 10 with Google, YouTube and Blogger – do not underestimate the power of Google! Can’t think the folks over at Yahoo! are to happy about the slide. Also interesting is who no longer on the Top 10 – MySpace so two years ago – bye,bye. AOL? Who? What? Distant memory. Seriously, when was the last time you checked your Myspace account? Actually, MySpace is #11 and AOL is...

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Blogging matters

Posted by on Jun 23, 2009 in Search Engine Optimization | 0 comments

Blogging matters

Image via CrunchBase For those of you following our little traffic ranking exercise - When we started this exercise (9/22), Dohertyassoc.com had a Alexa traffic rank of: 3,740,178. In October, we had a traffic rank of 1,969,422, January 2009 was 1,183,946, April we had gotten to 869,376. Currently Doherty’s traffic rank is 1,696,815 So what happened? We got busy, and let the website slide and lo and behold – no new content, traffic slips. Related articles by Zemanta blogging tips from expert bloggers – build traffic and boost Alexa rank (thatgirlisfunny.com) Blogging Alexa (dave-lucas.blogspot.com) Site News: Alexa Traffic Rank...

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Watching the Competition

Posted by on Nov 20, 2008 in Search Engine Optimization | 0 comments

Watching the Competition

Image via Wikipedia Another reason we love www.alexa.com is all the competitive analysis we can glean from the site. For those of you that don’t know, Alexa is a ranking site based solely on traffic. The more traffic you have, the higher the ranking (1 being the best). So naturally, this would be the place to look and see what other sites are doing to help boost their traffic. Enter in one of your keywords and see what pops up. Find a popular site (ranking closest to 1) and click on site info. From you here you can find Sites linking in – that may also be willing to link to you. Related links – Other websites you may not have known about....

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