8 entries found with tag webmaster.

Pagerank update April 2008

Google have just done a pagerank update. If you have the Google toolbar installed you should see that Nimisis.com is back to PR4. Same for PriceCutReview.com and Sport.omani.ac. About time too!

Tags: pagerank, Google, webmaster, seo

Now a Dofollow blog

Nimisis.com is now a "dofollow" blog. That means that any outlink to a website left in the comments won't have the "nofollow" tag. To explain, a link with the "nofollow" option tells search engines not to follow the link and therefore won't assign the external website any extra ranking. So now, unlike most blogs out there, this option will be omitted. As long as the comments are worthwhile, it doesn't seem right to give the contributer no credit for their trouble, hence the change.

This is only on a trial basis, as there is a risk of abuse, but hopefully it'll be permanent!

Related: dofollow, seo, webmaster

Real time website statistics

Want to see your website's visitors the moment they arrive? Interested in where they came from and how they navigate around your pages? Well, you can with Live Web Stats, which is now out of beta and available for webmasters with PHP and MySQL on their servers to purchase and install.

A demo page is here.

See also: statistics, webmaster, php, mysql, seo

Google Pagerank Update January 2008

It's happening... the Google servers are giving different numbers for PR, so I'm guessing we're in the middle of another update!

Tags: pagerank, webmaster, Google, seo

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Google PageRank update for July 2007 has started!

If you own a website and have lately been trying to improve your Google PageRank, you might be interested to know that the website rankings are now just starting to change. Keep watching that PageRank button on your Google Toolbar for, hopefully, a higher number!

Related: seo, webmaster, Google

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Live Web Stats

With a bit of javascript voodoo, MySQL magic and php trickery, you can find out, in real time, who's visiting your website, where they came from and where they're going. Here's a demo page of what I'm talking about.

This is still in beta, but if you're interested in installing Live Web Stats on your website, find out more here.

How accurate is Alexa?

Alexa.com, the "web information company" is designed to provide statistics on the popularity of websites on the internet - I just wonder how accurate it is at doing so.

Alexa gathers its statistics using the Alexa Toolbar which is an add-on to Internet Explorer. There's the first problem - there's no official Firefox version. (I say official because there is this Firefox extension, but I'm not convinced that it sends home browsing statistics). I think most would agree that the more savvy web user will tend to use Firefox in preference to IE... and they'll sift through more of the web than the average surfer. But, being affiliated to Amazon.com, you'd think it would have enough users to provide statistical reliability anyway. I guess the more popular you website is, the more reliable the figures are. (Other problems include extra browsing lag and occasional crashes.)

So what percentage of internet users are estimated to have the Alexa Toolbar installed? Alexa doesn't say. On the basis of Nimisis.com's numbers in the last few months, I would guess that it's about one in 600. Not a lot. Still, this will no doubt vary according to the country, among other variables. Below are some graphs for Nimisis.com and you can see there is some correlation.

Alexa stats showing "Daily Reach" in percent.

Google Analytics stats (accurate) showing unique visitors per day

In the end I think Alexa stats can be useful and do have their place. Nowadays it can be difficult to gauge whether a professional looking website actually is one that draws a significant crowd and has any authority. Sure, there are groups that artifically ramp up their rankings by more or less randomly traversing through each other's sites - so don't trust the stats completely. For a second and third opinion, try Quantcast.com and Compete.com, but these are smaller than Alexa. I just think Google, with their huge Google Toolbar user base would gather much more accurate stats. Come on Google!

Tags: statistics, webmaster, Alexa

Google PageRank Calculator

The latest addition to my list of homebrew applications is a Google PageRank calculator. If you have a website and want to do some search engine optimisation this will hopefully be a useful tool.

I thought I'd also use this entry as a place where comments can be posted for PR score comparison purposes, so feel free to add what your site scored, how many pages were crawled and the number of calculation iterations performed.

Related: Ranker, seo, webmaster, software

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