Pornstarpac was recently discussing the alexa.com ratings, something whic Dave Cummings looks at regularly. I should know, he told me so!
Quite frankly, the alexa ratings are a complete loads of bulls' balls. They do no signify how well a site is doing, because I know a friend of mine's gets 12,000 unique hits per day but is ranked 3 million down the line, yet others get a far higher ranking but get fewer hits.
The Alexa thing is a load of shite. Don't believe a word of it, or even look at it. It's only one search engine.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz to that...
LB.

You have 1 friend(which seems correct) that has alexa rating that is not correct so the thing is scam. And you talked to Dave Cummings. Wow call amazon.com and tell them they got fucked buying alexa. All I do is list what the ranking shows. some people go by it some don't. ..

take a look and decide for yourself.

Adult Studios Top 75 Traffic Report

If you go read their disclaimer they say not to follow anything thing ranked 100,000 or more.

Disclaimer:In addition to the biases above, the Alexa user base is only a sample of the Internet population, and sites with relatively low traffic will not be accurately ranked by Alexa due to the statistical limitations of the sample. Alexa's data come from a large sample of several million Alexa Toolbar users; however, this is not large enough to accurately determine the rankings of sites with fewer than roughly 1,000 total monthly visitors. Generally, Traffic Rankings of 100,000+ should be regarded as not reliable because the amount of data we receive is not statistically significant. Conversely, the more traffic a site receives (the closer it gets to the number 1 position), the more reliable its Traffic Ranking becomes.


Your friends site is at 3 million because:

a) His site is for mac users only(alexa stats are IE browsers only)
b) he has been banned from a major search engine.

Mc) he has all secure pages

d) email spamming.

e) he is a friend of yours.


alexa will soon be sold to google or amazon and google partner together and use alexa's technology Then it will be 100% correct. I look into the future and what tools will be used from that. If tomorrow there is a gift from God and gives us a site that is right on the money, Then I'll list adult industry site from there.

Why do you repeat "your friend" as if it is my site I am talking about? It isn't, and is like I like I said, my friend's site. Another thing was that one week his web site (which is essentially a message board) was ranked something like 7,000, then the next week it was ranked 3 million down the line. It's crazy, man. And I did not talk to Dave personally. It was through an email, but he said how much he puts store by Alexa. And I do not.
TS Aka Lord Byron

Porntosser...I have just re-read your message, about my only having "one friend". I know people you can only dream about knowing. Anyway, you sound like an old woman. Talk about bitchin'. You're one sad dude.
LB.

Raising a Red Flag
Dean’s rebel yell doesn’t slow his mo. Or so the Net says

By Howard Fineman
NEWSWEEK


Nov. 17 issue — Kym Spell, Wes Clark’s energetic spin doctor, was on the line, crowing. The big news: her candidate’s Web site for the first time had beaten Howard Dean’s on Alexa. It was a Sunday, true, and Dean’s site the next day had retaken the lead, but “this shows we’ve got momentum,” she said. That brought a dismissive laugh from Joe Trippi, Dean’s campaign manager. “We crush them on Alexa,” he said.

ON WHAT? Aficionados know the earliest battlefields in the race for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination: Iowa (where Dick Gephardt leads) and New Hampshire (Dean is way in front) and South Carolina (where John Edwards leads in most polls). But the newest, and one of the most important, fields of combat exists in cyberspace, on a traffic-monitoring site called Alexa. Owned and operated by Amazon.com, the site ranks thousands of Web sites on all subjects by hits and page views, and produces a constantly updated digital EKG of each campaign. Though it has conceptual flaws (it’s Microsoft-based only and depends on free downloads of a monitoring software), Alexa has become an arbiter of who’s hot—or not—on the Net.
Dean still is, with consequences that are rippling through the race. In a three-day online plebiscite among his e-mail list of 500,000 supporters (most harvested initially on the Internet), he won overwhelming approval for rejecting the federal-financing system. That, in turn, will allow him to raise as much as he can, and to spend as much as he wants trying to snuff out his Democratic rivals early next year.
The possibility that Dean could do so is leading some nondigital powers that be—labor-union chieftains—to overlook the doctor’s penchant for aiming shots at his own foot, the most recent being his condescending description of Southern, working-class white men as “guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.” The resulting controversy didn’t stop two powerful unions—Service Employees and State, County and Municipal Employees—from putting aside their own rivalry and preparing a joint endorsement of Dean. “They see all that money coming in,” a Gephardt aide glumly concluded.
Indeed, within Dean World, attacks on the candidate tend to be seen as proof of his manifest destiny. When Tim Russert roasted Dean on “Meet the Press,” Web traffic and donations skyrocketed. Last week’s scorching on the flag issue produced a similar result, Trippi claimed. “We had our best two days so far this quarter,” he said. Now the campaign is using its Web roster to select and deploy thousands of volunteers who will flood into Iowa, New Hampshire and other states. Recruiting questionnaires ask about subjects ranging from issue preferences to whether a nonsmoking volunteer would live in the home of a smoker

@Pornstar2pac...I am worried about your overuse of the smilies!
LB.
PS. I am a doctor of the mind, so I can help put you away.