Comments on: Review: new plugin for pinging http://thesimplewebcompany.com/2009/04/review-new-plugin-for-pinging/ Simple professional Wordpress websites Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:54:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tracey Rissik http://thesimplewebcompany.com/2009/04/review-new-plugin-for-pinging/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Tracey Rissik Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:59:48 +0000 http://thesimplewebcompany.com/?p=312#comment-37 Hi Bruce, Thanks for your comment, and I'm glad you enjoyed the talk last night. It was good to meet you. Thanks very much for this perspective on Alexa. You are right, it's not a measure of success; I view it more as a way of showing that you're going somewhere - of course that's in relation to millions of other sites, so it's not niche-specific. But I find it exciting to see the changes in ranking from one week to the next... as long as they're going upwards! My thoughts are that as long as your websites are getting noticed in such circumstances, as WELL as in the search engines, it all helps. I'll try out the rank checker you recommend. I've had some problems in the past with FF plugins; some of them stop me from having more than a single FF window open, which is very limiting - so fingers crossed it won't happen with this one. I'll be checking out your site this weekend too... so thanks for "dropping by" and commenting! kind regards Tracey Hi Bruce,

Thanks for your comment, and I’m glad you enjoyed the talk last night. It was good to meet you.

Thanks very much for this perspective on Alexa. You are right, it’s not a measure of success; I view it more as a way of showing that you’re going somewhere – of course that’s in relation to millions of other sites, so it’s not niche-specific. But I find it exciting to see the changes in ranking from one week to the next… as long as they’re going upwards!

My thoughts are that as long as your websites are getting noticed in such circumstances, as WELL as in the search engines, it all helps.

I’ll try out the rank checker you recommend. I’ve had some problems in the past with FF plugins; some of them stop me from having more than a single FF window open, which is very limiting – so fingers crossed it won’t happen with this one.

I’ll be checking out your site this weekend too… so thanks for “dropping by” and commenting!

kind regards
Tracey

]]> By: Bruce Bird http://thesimplewebcompany.com/2009/04/review-new-plugin-for-pinging/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Bruce Bird Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:40:05 +0000 http://thesimplewebcompany.com/?p=312#comment-36 Tracey, Congratulations on your presentation at Daniel's event last night. It is always good to hear other's point of view - and there are so many to play with around online marketing! Regarding Alexa ranking, this is surely the most broad brush measure of success and is only relevant in showing whether your ranking is any better or worse than it was last week/month/year. It is dependent on data from people using the Alexa toolbar and does little to indicate how successful you may be in competition with other websites selling similar products and services. If I'm selling apples then any comparison with someone selling oranges is completely irrelevant. As SEO is about being relevant to your chosen keywords so each keyword search by a prospect will produce a different niche market - broad or narrow according to how specific the keyword or keyword phrase was. So you can be at the very bottom of the Alexa ranking yet simultaneously top of search engine listing for the keywords that your customer is searching for with their credit card ready in their hand. Success is measured by profitability, not ranking. I've tried a number of ranking tools and found Rank Checker, a free tool from SEObook.com at http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/ to be very useful. Regards Bruce Tracey,

Congratulations on your presentation at Daniel’s event last night. It is always good to hear other’s point of view – and there are so many to play with around online marketing!

Regarding Alexa ranking, this is surely the most broad brush measure of success and is only relevant in showing whether your ranking is any better or worse than it was last week/month/year.

It is dependent on data from people using the Alexa toolbar and does little to indicate how successful you may be in competition with other websites selling similar products and services. If I’m selling apples then any comparison with someone selling oranges is completely irrelevant.

As SEO is about being relevant to your chosen keywords so each keyword search by a prospect will produce a different niche market – broad or narrow according to how specific the keyword or keyword phrase was. So you can be at the very bottom of the Alexa ranking yet simultaneously top of search engine listing for the keywords that your customer is searching for with their credit card ready in their hand.

Success is measured by profitability, not ranking.

I’ve tried a number of ranking tools and found Rank Checker, a free tool from SEObook.com at http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/ to be very useful.

Regards
Bruce

]]> By: Tracey Rissik http://thesimplewebcompany.com/2009/04/review-new-plugin-for-pinging/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Tracey Rissik Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:29:55 +0000 http://thesimplewebcompany.com/?p=312#comment-35 Martin, thanks for that bit of info; it's definitely worth being aware of that. Does anyone else have experience of how to get around this challenge? [Check your Alexa rankings at http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ ] thanks Tracey Martin, thanks for that bit of info; it’s definitely worth being aware of that.

Does anyone else have experience of how to get around this challenge?

[Check your Alexa rankings at http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ ]

thanks
Tracey

]]> By: Alexa ranking doesn't work on Vista! http://thesimplewebcompany.com/2009/04/review-new-plugin-for-pinging/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Alexa ranking doesn't work on Vista! Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:24:13 +0000 http://thesimplewebcompany.com/?p=312#comment-34 Alexa rankings can't be the sole determinants of measuring a sites importance and popularity as the http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fortunehotels.in rankings do not take into account all the browser types like Windows Vista etc. Alexa rankings can’t be the sole determinants of measuring a sites importance and popularity as the http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/fortunehotels.in rankings do not take into account all the browser types like Windows Vista etc.

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