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• Madeleine

  Feb 2, 2011 at 9:19 am

  

  The Biblioblog list ranks biblically themed blogs by their one month Alexa score, so if you wish to help your favourite blog rank better visit it regularly with the Alexa toolbar installed; SEO Black Hat explains why you should install it:

  Google Uses Alexa’s Information For Ranking and Indexing

  Installing the Alexa toolbar and surfing your own site will absolutely help you get your sites indexed by Google more quickly. I just started this blog today, and the googlebot has already come by without any inbound links!

  Because the Alexa toolbar is such a pile, no one ever keeps it installed. So just by updating and surfing your own site daily, (assuming NO ONE else does), you can get your Alexa ranking from 5,500,000 or “no data” to around 300,000 in under a month and to 100,000 in 3 months.

  Alexa Rankings and Google PR are two of the main factors uninformed people look at when considering link exchanges. (Page Rank is completely useless BTW we have a white hat PR 4 site that gets 20 visitors a day and unranked sites that get several thousand per day).

  If you remember the Nielsen Company, famous for the Nielsen Ratings, you understand that what is put on television was once determined by what a minute fraction of TV viewers watched: The people with a Nielsen box on their TV Set – The Nielsen Families. Having the Alexa toolbar installed on your browser is like being a Nielsen Family for the web. Your surfing habits will determine what is most “popular” and what sites should be ranked higher in the SERPs.

  Food for thought.
• Woland’s cat

  Feb 2, 2011 at 9:46 am

  

  I just had a look at #1 on the list (Zwinglius Redivivus) and I’m skeptical about validity of the Biblioblog/Alexa ranking system.
• Woland’s cat

  Feb 2, 2011 at 9:48 am

  

  Oh, and that SEO Black Hat article is from 2005. Six years is a very long time in SEO. I very much doubt that Google is as influenced by Alexa as the article claims.
• JM

  Feb 2, 2011 at 11:18 am

  

  Nice going, guys! Maybe one day Disciple Dojo will crack the top 50! 🙂
• Madeleine

  Feb 2, 2011 at 12:12 pm

  

  Alexa’s data is skewed, it relies heavily on a small sample set and weight that group’s data far too strongly – everyone concedes that – but this factor is precisely why having the toolbar gives you real power.
  My experience of using Alexa has been extremely positive for the sites I frequent – it is amazing what just one extra person visiting a site regularly can do for that site’s Alexa rankings.
• Woland’s cat

  Feb 2, 2011 at 12:42 pm

  

  Google’s Page Rank has this blog at 6/10, Zwinglius Redivivus at 5/10 and Beretta at 3/10. I’d say that that reflects the truth of the popularity of the sites better than Alexa. Although going by the comment traffic alone I’d put Glenn’s blog between Zwinglius Redivivus and you.

  I think that article from 2005 is wrong (or out of date) in saying that “Page Rank is completely useless”. Seems closer to the truth than Alexa’s figures.

  Perhaps Jim simply spends more time surfing his own site with the Alexa toolbar? Useful stats if you want to know who surfs their own website the most. ;p
• Madeleine

  Feb 2, 2011 at 1:16 pm

  

  Page rank is more a measure of how carefully constructed internally a site is, which in turn affects how important google ranks its pages. I know for a fact that I put a lot more effort into building MandM’s page rank than Glenn or Jim do their sites – that is why our page rank is on par with Kiwiblog.
  I have gone through 2/3 of this site to make it optimal for page rank analysis, my hope is that when I can get the remaining 1/3 done we’ll creep up to a 7.
  The real measure of site is unique visits, time on site, number of pages loaded, backlinks and repeat visits. Page rank does not show this at all and while Alexa does its results are warped because of how few people use the toolbar.
  MandM and Beretta’s (I think) stat counters are publicly visible so you can compare visits and page loads between those two sites if you want.
  An interesting comparison between Zwinglius, Beretta and MandM would be to run the search link:www.inserturl.4each and compare the total number of links for each site. I’ve never done that.
• pboyfloyd

  Feb 4, 2011 at 9:17 am

  

  Well done Matt and Madeleine.
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