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About Author Websites

Mon, 11 Nov 2008 18:51:00 GMT

posted by ShielaS
I found this on a yahoo group I belong to and thought I would post it here. I know it's helped me a great deal with my website. Check it out and see how yours compares.

Four Surprising Conclusions About Author Websites: http://www.michaelhyatt.com/fromwhereisit/2008/11/four-surprising.html

A few weeks ago, in preparation for a meeting with one of my biggest authors, I visited his website. I was reminded again how many authors think that by just hanging a website in cyberspace they are somehow building their brand. As it turns out, not so much.

The site looked great. Nice graphics. Cool use of flash. Lots of razzle-dazzle. So I decided to run his site through WebsiteGrader.com. This simple tool is like a CAT-scan for websites. I was surprised at the poor results.
Based on this, I decided to do a little research. I next ran our top twelve bestselling authors through the same exercise. I won’t reveal the names of the authors for fear of embarrassing them, but I will tell you that Dave Ramsey scored the highest. He clearly knows what he is doing on the Web.
As you look at the results in the chart below, keep in mind:
Overall Web Grade is the WebsiteGrader.com grade. It is based on a complex set of criteria, including the items below.

Google Page Rank shows Google’s relative rank on a 1–10 scale. The higher the number the better.

Alexa Traffic Rank shows your absolute traffic ranking against all other websites in the world. It’s similar to the Nielsen Ratings. The lower the number, the better. For example, Dave’s rank—18,977—means his site is in the top 20,000 sites in the world. Since there are tens of millions, this is impressive.

Technorati Blog Rank shows absolute traffic ranking against all other blog sites in the world. If the blog is not registered with Technorati, then it is not ranked. (If you’re a blogger, this is why you should register your blog with Technorati.)

Here are the results:

Web Presence of Thomas Nelson’s Top Authors

Author1 : Dave Ramsey

Overall Web Grade: 99.9

Google Page Rank: 6

Alexa Traffic Rank: 18,977

Technorati Blog Rank: 1,218

Author 2:

Overall Web Grade: 99.3

Google Page Rank: 6

Alexa Traffic Rank: 110,308

Technorati Blog Rank: 726,714

Author 3

Overall Web Grade: 99.3
Google Page Rank:5
Alexa Traffic Rank: 52,288
Technorati Blog Rank: N/A

Author 4

Overall Web Grade: 92.0
Google Page Rank: 5
Alexa Traffic Rank: 393,576
Technorati Blog Rank: 20,212

Author 5

Overall Web Grade: 91.0
Google Page Rank: 5
Alexa Traffic Rank: 427,192
Technorati Blog Rank: N/A

Author 6

Overall Web Grade: 89.0
Google Page Rank: 4
Alexa Traffic Rank: 613,492
Technorati Blog Rank:N/A

Author 7

Overall Web Grade: 86.0
Google Page Rank: 4
Alexa Traffic Rank: 674,324
Technorati Blog Rank: 213,437

Author 8

Overall Web Grade: 86.0
Google Page Rank: 4
Alexa Traffic Rank: 257,410
Technorati Blog Rank: N/A

Author 9

Overall Web Grade: 82.0
Google Page Rank:4
Alexa Traffic Rank: 402,066
Technorati Blog Rank: N/A

Author 10

Overall Web Grade: 81.0
Google Page Rank: 5
Alexa Traffic Rank: 545,916
Technorati Blog Rank: N/A

Author 11

Overall Web Grade: 79.0
Google Page Rank: 4
Alexa Traffic Rank: 548,447
Technorati Blog Rank: N/A

Author 12

Overall Web Grade: 35.0
Google Page Rank:3
Alexa Traffic Rank: 3,738,452
Technorati Blog Rank: N/A

Here are my conclusions:
Having a really slick, graphically-clever website does not necessarily correlate with more traffic. In fact, the ones that made use of the latest flash and embedded video technologies scored at the low-end of the traffic scale.

Having a large media platform does not necessarily correlate with more traffic. Yes, Dave Ramsey has a huge media platform on both TV and radio. However, one of the authors with the biggest media platforms was dead last. Interestingly, if I were on the list, my site has the fourth largest traffic, and I have no media platform at all.

Having a large organization behind you does not necessarily correlate with more traffic. Some authors with large organizations were near the top; some near the bottom.
Having a young and hip image does does not necessarily correlate with more traffic. In fact, there seems to be an inverse correlation. Maybe the older authors work harder at it. Perhaps the younger authors think that being cool is enough. Regardless, most of the ones I assumed would be web-savvy are not—at least in terms of generating meaningful traffic.

The good news is that it is not that difficult for authors to build a powerful, online presence. Nor does it cost much. Tomorrow, I plan to post on “Seven Ways to Build Your Author Brand Online.” Stay tuned.

In the meantime, if you want to get the most value out of this exercise, run your own site or blog through WebsiteGrader.com. This will give you a good snapshot of where you are now.

How to Fake Alexa. Can I Fake My Alexa Ranking?

Fri, 18 Oct 2008 23:26:00 GMT

posted by DavesBP

You most likely found this post because you were thinking to yourself... Can I Fake My Alexa Ranking? So you decided to search for information on How to Fake Alexa. I am going to tip you on finding out how to increase your Alexa rank.

Right now I am going to show you how to fake Alexa. Next time you say to yourself, "How Can I Fake My Alexa Ranking?" You will know the answer! I’ll show you how to fake your Alexa rank so you can quickly get a low Alexa rank for your new site even though most people think that is not possible.

Let me clear something up right away... I cannot actually fake my Alexa rank and you can't fake your Alexa rank either. But there are definitely some things you can do to boost it. This isn't exactly how to fake Alexa but it is as close as you can get.

To give yourself a nice boost in Alexa rank, one thing you can do is write a post about how to fake Alexa. Yes, that is exactly what I am doing right now!

You see, "How to fake Alexa" is one of the top things that bloggers and other webmasters search for because they know having a good Alexa rank is can be very important to their success. So the whole reason for this post is to get ranked for the keyword phrase How to Fake Alexa and get as many people here as possible looking for tips on boosting Alexa rank. This will, in turn, help my Alexa ranking.

Can I fake my Alexa Rank? No, I can't.

At least to my knowledge there are no methods on How to Fake Alexa. There are no real ways to fake Alexa so you will just have to live with that fact. But you can easily increase your Alexa rank by doing some things such as what I am doing right now.

This is the best method I have found for lowering your Alexa rank as quickly as possible. Like I said before, I am going to keep using keyword phrases related How To Fake Alexa so I can get this post ranked as highly as possible and lower my Alexa rank from all the traffic I get from internet marketers, webmasters, and bloggers.

Doing this will attract the attention of people who know what Alexa is, such as; internet marketers, bloggers, and webmasters. They will come here trying to figure out how I can fake my Alexa rank and hopefully learn how to fake Alexa themselves. And that's perfect because these are the people I want to come here because they are the ones who will probably have the Alexa toolbar installed.

If you aren't even sure what Alexa rank is, the simplest way to define it is that the Alexa rank is a ranking system that bases its ranking on the amount of traffic a website receives from people who have the Alexa toolbar installed. The Alexa ranking tends to be highly skewed towards websites that get most of their traffic from internet marketers, webmasters, bloggers, and other technical people. This is because these people are much more likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed than your average internet user.

Your Alexa rank is used by internet marketers, webmasters, and potential advertisers as one of the factors in determining the value of your website. Simply put, the value of a link on your website, an ad on your site, or the monetary value of your site as a whole is very much related to your Alexa rank.

So you definitely want to have a good Alexa rank. And like I mentioned before, the best way to fake Alexa rank is to get tons of people who have the Alexa toolbar installed on their browser to visit your website.

By attracting internet marketers and other web savvy people who have the Alexa toolbar installed, you will be able to increase your own Alexa rank. That's exactly how I will be able to bring my Alexa ranking way down by making a post like this. Because when internet marketers come to see if I really do know how to fake Alexa rank, they will be helping me lower my own Alexa ranking.

To be honest, the ability to attract as many Alexa toolbar users here to the free home business tips blog as possible will artificially enhance my Alexa ranking and that is really how I can fake my Alexa rank.

One other great strategy that I can give you on how to fake Alexa is to simply install the toolbar on your own browser and set your website as your start up home page. And visit your own site as much as possible. Yes, your visits do count toward your Alexa rank. Every little bit helps.

This is a copied text for the same purpose as this post. This is an experiment only!
http://www.zimbio.com/alexa+rank/articles/165/How+Fake+Alexa+Can+Fake+My+Alexa+Ranking

Top Ranked Online Bingo Sites

Thu, 19 Sep 2008 21:48:06 GMT

posted by freebingo

I have always been curious as to which online bingo sites drive the most traffic online. So, as to feed my curiosity I ran an experiment taking numerous online bingo sites and feeding them into various online tools that measure for overall online quality scores, current trends, keyword search parameters and average monthly traffic. I used the following online applications to collate my data:

Once all the data had been gathered it was then a matter of running it through a simple scoring system to manage the data into a vertical seeding system. Below is what we ended up with and it is perhaps a better judge of what the current trends that people are searching for, rather than what online bingo sites are best for playing. We hope you enjoy our top ten as much as we enjoyed making it.

	Compete Uniques	255
	Alexa Rank	1,008,825
	SEOBook Wordtracker	9
www.888bingo.com	Google Insight	47

	Compete Uniques	318
	Alexa Rank	416,535
	SEOBook Wordtracker	2
www.skybingo.com	Google Insight	62

	Compete Uniques	577
	Alexa Rank	346,754
	SEOBook Wordtracker	14
www.littlewoodsbingo.com	Google Insight	66

	Compete Uniques	14,390
	Alexa Rank	161,859
	SEOBook Wordtracker	12
www.123bingo.com	Google Insight	–

	Compete Uniques	2,134
	Alexa Rank	585,799
	SEOBook Wordtracker	26
www.yahoobingo.net	Google Insight	68

	Compete Uniques	658
	Alexa Rank	52,800
	SEOBook Wordtracker	55
www.sunbingo.co.uk	Google Insight	63

	Compete Uniques	5,931
	Alexa Rank	100,575
	SEOBook Wordtracker	54
www.meccabingo.com	Google Insight	74

	Compete Uniques	12,772
	Alexa Rank	18,279
	SEOBook Wordtracker	112
www.foxybingo.com	Google Insight	61

	Compete Uniques	58,655
	Alexa Rank	75,439
	SEOBook Wordtracker	68
bingo.com	Google Insight	72

	Compete Uniques	2,144
	Alexa Rank	17,321
	SEOBook Wordtracker	85
www.galabingo.co.uk	Google Insight	83

My Updated Alexa Rank

Sun, 20 Oct 2008 02:32:48 GMT

posted by rgbconnections

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Yepey! Last friday I noticed that my Alexa Rank moved to 1M, yepey again! You can see my rank at my lower area of side bar under the Blog Info. Isn’t it a good news? Well, I just loved the way my Alexa Rank improves week after week. You can see the ways on how to improve alexa rank from my previous post.

To my readers, enjoy! ;)

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Increase Alexa Ranking : A Quick Working Tip

Thu, 19 Sep 2008 08:05:00 GMT

posted by gaganpreet
Alexa ranking is a most important factor for webmasters. High Alexa ranking can get you good advertisers. So, today I am going to tell you a quick tip with which you can increase your Alexa ranking.

Just install Alexa toolbar and surf your website with it. Also encourage your visitors to install this toolbar. When your site visitors will surf your website/blog with Alexa toolbar installed this will increase your Alexa ranking.

You can also add Alexa widget to sidebar and tell your visitors to install this toolbar.

How this trick works : Actually Alexa rankings depends upon the users visiting your site with Alexa toolbar installed. So if you have more users with toolbar installed the high rank you will get.

Download Instructions : Click here to install Alexa toolbar.

This is a tried and working trick.

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About Author Websites

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Top Ranked Online Bingo Sites

My Updated Alexa Rank

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