good luck, man!

man, i’m not a nice, good, scott-free person myself, but at least i never suppress comments that dis me. especially the “frank and honest” ones.

danny, of course you may delete this comment but you know somewhere in this country somebody’s calling your BS (that would be me and the hordes who worship on the altar of the Church of Skirmisher). that will haunt you and shall affect whatever stuff you write from here on. LOLz!

Reply: Please understand that I moderate comments to check against spam. Online users like you who post for the first time will have to be approved first; rest assured that the succeeding ones will not be moderated, as was the case of dYu and Schumey. I hope this sets the record straight. I don’t censor negative comments. In any case, I don’t take offense with what you wrote, and will, in fact, keep in mind your analysis in future analyses of traffic rankings of selected websites. I wish you all the best.

Reply: I agree that Alexa can be very unreliable and is prone to manipulation. Right now, I use it due to the lack of an alternative. Perhaps JB is right in saying that the way to assess a website’s popularity is a combination of variables like Alexa and Technorati rank, not to mention PageRank. Cheers!

in the end, what matters would still be the actual number of daily visitors, page views, and feed/email subscribers, plus technorati thingies like authority number, backlinks, and the number of those who favorited you. there’s a really reliable way to gauge the blog’s overall worth using the combo of alexa, technorati, and one other measure i just forget at the moment, but unfortunately, i no longer have the link. but if you can, it would be cool if you’d post data from other aspects and not alexa.