Alexa.com Algorithm SEO’s, Once Again Proven to be highly Inaccurate & Extremely Unreliable, Instead Why NOT GO With Klout, yes, klout.com!

Alexa.com Algorithm SEO’s, Once Again Proven to be highly Inaccurate & Extremely Unreliable, Instead Why NOT GO With Klout, yes, klout.com!

By Marc Chamot

If you rely on Alexa.com to measure your blog’s SEO’s, or anyone else’s, watch out, it’s proven to be inaccurate. Their algorithm system is way out of whack; it’s once again proven to be inaccurate.

Sadly, most advertisers rely on their bunk of crap, but bloggers all over, are getting screwed on advertising dollars!

For quite sometimes, actually, for over two years that I’ve been blogging, I’ve been watching my Alexa.com stats eroding away. And I’ve been wondering, as to why Alexa.com is showing my blog traffic in decline, while Google analytics on Blogger is showing otherwise, the opposite? I’ve had steady growth throughout the years, but since I’ve been syndicated, I have lost that increase I used to have, I’ll admit it’s a little slower now.

Three years ago, Alexa.com had me rated at best, top 76,000 blogs in the U.S. and as high as 140,000 worldwide, and, get this! That was one year into my blog! 

And now, three years later, when the Marc Chamot Report is well established, and numerous contents syndicated all over, and they’ve got me at horrid 1,963,827 in the world!

Google Blogger shows otherwise;

 Alexa says, they measure blog traffic by people who have the alexa.com toolbar on their browsers, who actually access your blog.

However, most people I know, don't even know what Alexa is, and much-less having their freakin' toolbar on their browsers!

Well, I am not very happy about it, so I will voice my concern. However, syndications do hurt blog traffic, and there’s no question about it.

Partial list on impressions:

If you want something new, and that is way more reliable than Alexa.com, try klout.com.

Klout is way more accurate, and they don’t measure your blog by traffic alone, but they also look at how influential you are through other means, such as Twitter, Facebook and Blogger.

Klout ranks you accordingly, unlike Alexa.com, who doesn’t have any WIDGETS in my blog, or anybody else’s to accurately measure yours and my TRUE blog traffic.

That’s where klout.com comes in. They measure your influence in other ways, other than who reads your blog. My klout page has me scored at 44 out of a possible 100 in web influence, and that’s with limited Facebook options that they haven’t finished!

And wait till they do search engines! Ay caramba! Just imagine what your stats would be then?

So, if you want to accurately measure, and see who’s really influential? Forget those phony Alexa.com stats, just go with klout!

Read more about Alexa.com innacuracies: in Alexa is Becoming Completely Worthless “Alexa is becoming a joke lately. Some people claim that over the previous two years it was already losing reliability, but lately it went completely nuts. Whatever they did on the last algorithm update, it messed up their rankings badly.

I know that many people already ignore Alexa, but most advertisers still consider it when evaluate ad buys on websites, so I think we need to raise the awareness about it, and encourage them to use other available tools to gauge traffic.

The problem emerges when you make comparisons of different websites, and when you bring into the picture other traffic tracking services like Compete.com or Google Trends. I have 5 interesting cases to illustrate this.

Case 1: Daily Blog Tips vs. Daily Writing Tips

This was a natural example since I own both sites and have access to the real traffic figures. Daily Writing Tips (as of today) has an Alexa rank of 91059. Daily Blog Tips has a rank of 112363. The Alexa graph of the reach of both sites tell a similar story:

So if one was to trust Alexa, he would conclude that Daily Writing Tips is getting a lot more traffic than Daily Blog tips right? Wrong!

In fact it is exactly the opposite, Daily Blog Tips generates around 15,000 daily page views, while Daily Writing Tips only 8,000. The proportion of unique visitors is similar.

Now the interesting thing is that both Compete.com and Google Trends show a very similar traffic trend for those two sites, and one that is much closer to the real numbers.”

Ohio Craigslist Killer; Richard Beasley Kill Count # 3

New Bodies Found Could Bring Craigslist Ad Death Toll to 3  
From Fox News


Primary RULE Concerning GREED was ignored here; "If it's TOO GOOD to be TRUE, it USUALLY is.


& you MUST take Craigslist more seriously, as if your life is at stake, my friends"-Marc Chamot
"The discoveries of two new bodies could bring to three the death toll from a Craigslist ad that police say lured victims into a lethal robbery scheme.

A body found Friday in a shallow grave near a mall in Akron may be that of a missing man who answered the ad, the FBI said. And a sheriff in a rural county said later in the day that the body of a white male without identification was found in a shallow grave about 90 miles away.

The FBI is working on the supposition that the body found near the Rolling Acres shopping mall in Akron may be that of 47-year-old Timothy Kern, who hasn't been seen in more than a week, agency spokeswoman Vicki Anderson said.

"do we think it might be? Maybe," Anderson said. "He's missing. We haven't been able to find him. It could possibly be, but we just don't know that yet."

Anderson declined to specify how authorities discovered the body.

Kern, of Massillon, answered the same ad for a farm hand that authorities say led to the shooting death of Norfolk, Va., resident David Pauley, 51, in a rural area south of Akron. A South Carolina man reported answering the ad and being shot Nov. 6 but escaping.

Noble County Sheriff Steve Hannum is under a judge's gag order and can't comment on the case, but the title of his emailed announcement late Friday -- "second body" -- implied the discovery was connected with Pauley's death.

Neighbors where Pauley's body was found last week and the second body was found Friday said police had been in the area and a helicopter had been overhead most of the day but the scene was quiet late in the day.

Two people from the Akron area are in custody: a high school student who has been charged with attempted murder and 52-year-old Richard Beasley, who is in jail on unrelated charges.

Beasley's mother has said he has "a very caring heart" and she prays that newspaper reports he is a suspect are wrong.

FBI agents have contacted people to check on their well-being, FBI spokesman Harry Trombitas said Friday in an email.

One was Heather Tuttle, of Ravenna, who applied for the job Oct. 7 but never got a response. She had forgotten about the posting until an FBI agent called and left a message for her Monday.

When she called back, she was stunned at what the agent told her.

"It could have been me," said Tuttle, 27, who has since taken work as an assistant manager at a gas station.

"When the situation was explained to me, it just instantly made me sick and made me realize how lucky I am that I didn't get a response back," she said.

Another man who responded to the ad has said he met Beasley at a food court at a different mall in the Akron area on Oct. 10. Ron Sanson was told the man was looking for an older, single or divorced person to watch over a 688-acre (280-hectare) farm in southeast Ohio -- the kind of man, Sanson said, whose disappearance might not be quickly noticed.

Sanson and Kern are both divorced. So was Pauley.

Sanson, 58, said he filled out an application and talked for about 20 minutes with Beasley about a $300-a-week job overseeing a swath of land a mile from the nearest neighbor and living rent-free in a two-bedroom trailer with opportunities to hunt and fish and free access to ATVs and snowmobiles.

The farm advertised on Craigslist does not exist; the area where the bodies were found in Noble County is property owned by a coal company and often leased to hunters.

Law enforcement officials have released few details because of the gag order. Hannum, the sheriff in Noble County where Pauley and the South Carolina man were shot, previously said it was unclear how long the ad was online or whether there were other victims.