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Orange · 11-23-2008, 05:14 PM

stevepavlina.com - Traffic Details from Alexa

Looks like its been going downhill these past few months.

Brutha · 11-23-2008, 07:16 PM

compete.com tells a different story: SnapShot of stevepavlina.com (rank #9,946) - Compete
I think there no reason to believe Alexa in this case.

JimOfferman · 11-23-2008, 08:50 PM

Huh, wait... isn't Alexa supposed to be the gold standard of traffic rankings? What has the world come to!

Orange · 11-24-2008, 12:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brutha

compete.com tells a different story: SnapShot of stevepavlina.com (rank #9,946) - Compete
I think there no reason to believe Alexa in this case.

sitebuildit.com use it to promote the good results of their site... does this mean i should avoid it?

ruchirkc · 11-24-2008, 02:01 AM

Alexa's pretty screwed up these days. Compete is much better.

RRR · 11-24-2008, 09:58 PM

lol..from Compete:

Top Keywords Driving Traffic:

1. steve pavlina
2. raw food diet
3. raw diet
4. how to cook brown rice
5. my life sucks and i want to die

Brutha · 11-24-2008, 10:57 PM

Quote:

sitebuildit.com use it to promote the good results of their site... does this mean i should avoid it?

On a per site basis, Alexa is very inaccurate. I however don't know whether that effect averages out over multiple sites.

ProjectX · 11-26-2008, 06:12 PM

I think perhaps it has something to do with Steve removing the ads? Or maybe he hasn't been posting as much good articles lately?

Quote:

Originally Posted by RRR

lol..from Compete:

Top Keywords Driving Traffic:

1. steve pavlina
2. raw food diet
3. raw diet
4. how to cook brown rice
5. my life sucks and i want to die

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

TropicThink · 11-26-2008, 06:18 PM

I think Alexa has gone from bad to worse over these last few months or so. Their stats tend to be fairly inaccurate. Not that you can trust compete, though....

A few months ago there was some talk (which I honestly didn't pay a lot of attention to) of Alexa no longer taking into account traffic from social media sites like Digg and Stumble etc, which might explain the seeming drop in traffic for this site. I can understand the reasoning behind such a move, though, as social media traffic tends to largely be a waste of time and money as far as advertisers are concerned. Each UV simply isn't worth as much as someone coming from, say, a search engine. In a word, the traffic is, well, crap.

Byron · 11-26-2008, 06:34 PM

It looks like there was a big spike right around the '10 Reasons You Should Never Have A Religion' article..

but then dropped off after that.

Wonder if that's accurate, or why that would be?

Also btw, regarding religion, that's like water for the soul. People generally don't want to have an essential taken away from them, however faulty, without a proper substitute or replacement.

ruchirkc · 11-27-2008, 03:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TropicThink

I think Alexa has gone from bad to worse over these last few months or so. Their stats tend to be fairly inaccurate. Not that you can trust compete, though....

A few months ago there was some talk (which I honestly didn't pay a lot of attention to) of Alexa no longer taking into account traffic from social media sites like Digg and Stumble etc, which might explain the seeming drop in traffic for this site. I can understand the reasoning behind such a move, though, as social media traffic tends to largely be a waste of time and money as far as advertisers are concerned. Each UV simply isn't worth as much as someone coming from, say, a search engine. In a word, the traffic is, well, crap.

There's something called CPM ads

MisterEThoughts · 12-03-2008, 12:08 PM

Who cares?

dannielo · 12-03-2008, 03:14 PM

I think the majority have Google toolbar installed instead of Alexa toolbar, so this can be more accurate: Google Trends for Websites: stevepavlina.com

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Brutha Family Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Berlin, Germany Posts: 8,749	compete.com tells a different story: SnapShot of stevepavlina.com (rank #9,946) - Compete I think there no reason to believe Alexa in this case.

11-23-2008, 08:50 PM	#3 (permalink)
JimOfferman Family Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 1,823	Huh, wait... isn't Alexa supposed to be the gold standard of traffic rankings? What has the world come to!

11-24-2008, 02:01 AM	#5 (permalink)
ruchirkc Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 152	Alexa's pretty screwed up these days. Compete is much better.

11-24-2008, 09:58 PM	#6 (permalink)
RRR Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Rafael, California Posts: 451	lol..from Compete: Top Keywords Driving Traffic: 1. steve pavlina 2. raw food diet 3. raw diet 4. how to cook brown rice 5. my life sucks and i want to die

11-26-2008, 06:18 PM	#9 (permalink)
TropicThink Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 73	I think Alexa has gone from bad to worse over these last few months or so. Their stats tend to be fairly inaccurate. Not that you can trust compete, though.... A few months ago there was some talk (which I honestly didn't pay a lot of attention to) of Alexa no longer taking into account traffic from social media sites like Digg and Stumble etc, which might explain the seeming drop in traffic for this site. I can understand the reasoning behind such a move, though, as social media traffic tends to largely be a waste of time and money as far as advertisers are concerned. Each UV simply isn't worth as much as someone coming from, say, a search engine. In a word, the traffic is, well, crap.

11-26-2008, 06:34 PM	#10 (permalink)
Byron Banned Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 93	It looks like there was a big spike right around the '10 Reasons You Should Never Have A Religion' article.. but then dropped off after that. Wonder if that's accurate, or why that would be? Also btw, regarding religion, that's like water for the soul. People generally don't want to have an essential taken away from them, however faulty, without a proper substitute or replacement.

12-03-2008, 12:08 PM	#12 (permalink)
MisterEThoughts Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 104	Who cares?

12-03-2008, 03:14 PM	#13 (permalink)
dannielo Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 175	I think the majority have Google toolbar installed instead of Alexa toolbar, so this can be more accurate: Google Trends for Websites: stevepavlina.com

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