Alexa Movers and Shakers – Current Top 10 Traffic Rank Increases & Decreases

On 11/18/2008, In Uncategorized, By Brian

I wanted to post the current Alexa Movers & Shakers. I found some of the sites listed to be very interesting. The Movers & Shakers display the top 10 sites that have increased and decreased the most within the last week.


Moving Up

 #1
Mover 530% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 2,234 (was 17,639)
Wikimedia Foundation
International non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth and development of free content, multilingual, wiki-based projects, and to providing the full content of those projects to the public free of charge.
www.wikimediafoundation.org

2. 90,000% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 6,729 (was 1,182,561)
Order-subs.com
www.order-subs.com

3. 7,000% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 9,042 (was 425,197)
Patrickmoberg.com
www.patrickmoberg.com

4. 55% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 883 (was 1,210)
LanChile
Flight schedules, online ticket purchase, specials, destinations, and frequent flyer program information.
www.lan.com

5. 167% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 3,260 (was 11,197)
Move On
Offers information on the anti-war movement and resources for activists.
www.moveon.org

6. 141% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 2,100 (was 6,167)
Ögrenci Seçme ve Yerleştirme Merkezi (ÖSYM)
Ulusal üniversiteye giriş sınavını düzenleyen kurumun web sitesi.
www.osym.gov.tr

7. 340% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 3,659 (was 8,425)
中国金融网
亚洲财讯（中国）有限公司主办的大型金融门户网站，是中国金融领域的网上信息中心。www.zgjrw.com

8. 67% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 2,347 (was 4,204)
Areaconnect.com
www.areaconnect.com

9. 3,800% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 9,036 (was 396,560)
Wonder-who.com
www.wonder-who.com

10. 118% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 2,773 (was 6,401)
TD Bank Financial Group
Commercial bank headquartered in Toronto, with offices around the world. Offers additional services through Canada Trust, commercial banking division, TD Waterhouse, TD Asset Management and TD Securities.
www.td.com


Moving Down

1. 49% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 833 (was 401)
Meeticaffinity.fr
www.meeticaffinity.fr

2. 80% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 12,168 (was 2,698)
Gallup Organization
Provides market research and consulting services for Fortune 500 clients. It also publishes America’s leading barometer of public opinion, the Gallup Poll.
www.gallup.com

3. 70% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 5,161 (was 2,243)
React2media.com
www.react2media.com

4. 34% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 1,181 (was 778)
Official Site of Major League Baseball
Covers MLB on a daily basis, including RealAudio, video clips, interviews, statistics, schedules and exclusive stories about the great American pastime. Includes contact information for the Manhattan based organization.
www.mlb.com

5. 14% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 251 (was 211)
ICQ
Official site for the instant-messaging and chat software.
www.icq.com

6. 74% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 16,799 (was 4,298)
Rasmussenreports.com
www.rasmussenreports.com

7. 2% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 1 (was 1)
Yahoo!
Personalized content and search options. Chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager.
www.yahoo.com

8. 29% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 2,015 (was 1,356)
Snap
Snap.com – The other way to Search.
www.snap.com

9. 46% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 6,092 (was 2,971)
Windowslive.com
www.windowslive.com

10. 2% ~ Weekly Traffic Rank: 2 (was 2)
YouTube
YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide!
www.youtube.com

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FutureNow’s 33 Free Tools to Make Your Website Better

On 11/14/2008, In Uncategorized, By Brian

This is a short entry that I wanted to post. This article has an outstanding list of free tools to help us improve our site or blog. Below is an excerpt from FutureNow’s 33 Free Tools to Make Your Website Better.

1. Site-Perf – get an accurate, realistic, and helpful estimation of your site’s loading speed. The script fully emulates natural browser behavior downloading your page with all the images, CSS, JS and other files – just like a regular user. A unique feature is that site-perf.com allows to measure packet loss ratio with reasonable precision.

2. Customer Focus Calculator – will analyze the words on your page and determine if your copy is more about yourself or your customer. This tool will measure if you are we-we-ing all over yourself.

3. BT Buckets – Engage your users with a free segmentation and behavioral targeting tool.

4. 4Q from IPerceptions – developed with web analytics evangelist Avinash Kaushik. When evaluating how you website is doing obviously it helps to get your customers’ opinions. This free tool helps you answer four important questions:

* How satisfied are my visitors?
* What are my visitors at my website to do?
* Are they completing what they set out to do?
* If not, why not?
* If yes, what did they like best about the online experience?

5. What’s the Buzz? – a keyword research tool with one simple aim: to find out who’s talking about a certain keyword. To do that, it does five things:

* It displays the Technorati Blog Popularity Chart, showing how popular the keyword has been blogged about in the past 90 days
* It displays the Google Trends chart for the keyword
* It finds blog posts tagged with the keyword
* It finds blog posts containing the keyword (a straight-forward search)
* It finds social bookmarks tagged with the keywords

To read the remaining entries, continue reading at Future Now. Hope everyone has a great weekend.

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Stumbled vs. Digg Continued and Traffic Ranking Updates

On 11/05/2008, In movies, By Brian

I thought I’d provide a few updates on both the Stumbled vs. Digg Traffic and the Alexa and Technorati Traffic Rankings. Here are the previous entries: Alexa Traffic Update and Traffic With Stumbled Upon & Digg. I am not shooting for any particular rankings, but am more interested in the process and how quickly one can increase his/her rankings.

Alexa Rankings
Oct 2nd – 7,061,154
Oct 3rd – 4,130,697
Oct 7th – 3,098,288
Oct 18th – 1,133,260
Nov 4th – 284,626

Technorati Ranking
Oct 18th – 4,666,062
Nov 4th – 308,212

Stumbled vs. Digg Continues (Note: only Stumbled, Digg & Direct Traffic Listed)
Day 9 (Oct 20, 2008)
Traffic drops from 2,528 visits to 1,939
Overall – 1,765 visitors, 1,939 visits, 3,449 page views

  • Stumbled – 1,269 visits (65%)
  • Direct – 473 visits (24%)
  • Digg – 1 visit (0%)

Day 12 (Oct 23, 2008)
Traffic jumps from 1,939 visits to 9,784
Overall – 9,265 visitors, 9,784 visits, 16,554 page views

  • Stumbled – 7,834 visits (80%)
  • Direct – 1,659 visits (17%)
  • Digg – 4 visits (0%)

Day 15 (Oct 26, 2008)
Traffic stays steady, with less visitors but more page views
Overall – 8,831 visitors, 9,518 visits, 16,585 page views

  • Stumbled – 7,146 visits (75%)
  • Direct – 1,946 visits (20%)
  • Digg – 15 visits (0%)

Day 18 (Oct 29, 2008)
Traffic begins to decline from 9,518 to 6,829 visits
Overall – 6,829 visitors, 7,332 visits, 12,858 page views

  • Stumbled – 5,587 visits (76%)
  • Direct – 1,337 visits (18%)
  • Digg – 10 visits (0%)

Day 21 (Nov 2, 2008)
Traffic increases from 6,829 to 7,840 visits
Overall – 7,201 visitors, 7,840 visits, 14,355 page views

  • Stumbled – 5,786 visits (74%)
  • Direct – 1,574 visits (20%)
  • Digg – 6 visits (0%)
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