Hurray, Another Drop In My Score

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Sometime between 5:30 this evening and 7:30, my Alexa score dropped to 962,713 from 1,001,770 - a drop of 39,057 this time. Does this mean that there is a four day pause between score updates? Hopefully PPP will reflect this change on their site tomorrow. The gaming experiment continues ...

What Happened to my Alexa Score?

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After I had made the changes to my browser, I was excited to see an immediate improvement to my Alexa score. That was Wednesday night. Now it's Saturday, my rating has not changed at all from Wednesday's exhilarating result. Was Wednesday night's improvement a fluke? Does the score update nightly or is it something that refreshes weekly or even monthly? For now, I can only wait and see if my ranking changes next Wednesday.

Alexa Experiment

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Ok, I can rant and show that the Alexa rating is just a step above reading a horoscope. But it is believed in enough to be a factor to some online businesses. So let's see if I can 'game' my score, that is, improve it through my direct efforts. At the moment, Alexa rates this blog at 1,025,188. In other words, Alexa thinks there are over a million blogs with better traffic. Possibly. I track the number of visitors and repeat visits. Compared to my other blog, this one has more traffic. Yet, my other site, "Life Under Construction", has a rating of 70.

So to improve this blog's rating, I have done the following:
1) added an Alexa widget to this page,
2) added a search extension to my Firefox browser, at home and at work. As I visit my page once a day, Alexa will register my hit.

Let the *gaming* begin!

I am three now..

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not age, though some might argue otherwise, I am referring to my page ranking. This blog has gone from 0 to 3. (Note to self, don't rely on urltrends.com to check page ranking. Stupid site still has me at 0.) I found out by visiting SEOmoz.com to get my page strength, which is now at 3.5! Here are my stats as a point of reference for future readings:
* Links pointing to full URL: 25%
Source: Yahoo! Site Explorer 979
* Links pointing to domain: 23%
Source: Yahoo! Site Explorer 1368
* Position at Google for first four words of title tag on target URL: 70%
Source: Google 3
* Age of Domain: 100%
Source: Wayback Machine 2779 days old
* Links from domains with .edu TLDs: 0%
Source: Yahoo 0
* Links from domains with .gov TLDs: 0%
Source: Yahoo 0
* Alexa Rank 11%
Source: Alexa 830864
* Domain name visibility A count of results at Google for a search for your domain, showing URL visibility rather than incoming link count. 15%
Source: Google 229
* Internal Link Percent The percentage of pages on the domain that link to the target url. If the target URL is the same as the domain name, this is usually 100%. 100%
Source: Yahoo Site Explorer 100.00%
* Number of links according to Technorati 43%
Source: Technorati 43
* Number of search results for URL search at del.icio.us 13%
Source: del.icio.us 1
* Listings in DMOZ (ODP) 0%
Source: Yahoo 0
* Links found in Wikipedia 0%
Source: Yahoo 0
* Google Pagerank of full URL and Domain 28%
Source: Google Full URL: 3 Domain: 3

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