Posts Tagged ‘Blog Traffic’

Alexa Ranking:It Adds to Your Blog Value

April 27th, 2010

Alexa rank was developed by Amazon.com. It measures the traffic to a site for the last three months and one month simultaneously.

The assigning of a particular Alexa rank to a website or a blog  is based on the number of surfers(visitors) to your website. The surfers to the website must have the Alexa toolbar installed on their browsers otherwise they will not be counted. The Alexa rank counts the number of visitors and page views for all the websites on a daily basis.

This specific visitor counting also limit the actual measurement of popularity of a particular website or blog. Visitors not having installed Alexa toolbar will not add to the ranking and therefore the overall ranking results will not reflect a true picture. » Read more: Alexa Ranking:It Adds to Your Blog Value

Corporate Blogging and Social Media Trends Survey Findings

March 11th, 2010

The ‘Corporate Blogging and Social Media Trends Survey” conducted by ‘Compendium’ has recently been concluded with interesting and trend-indicating results.

In all 226 companies (B2B and B2C companies) participated in this survey and shared their data relating to ‘blogging traffic’, ’visitor-trends’, and ‘twitter-usage’.

Results of this survey are enough to shake the common belief that “business blogs thrive on a core-group of loyal readers”. On the contrary, the first –timers were found to be the ‘key factor’ in increasing the blog traffic.

“As more traffic is being driven to corporate blogs through organic searches and more first-time visitors are landing on blogs, companies need to develop blog and social media content that is appropriate for this audience in order to be effective,” said Chris Baggott, CEO and co-founder of Compendium. » Read more: Corporate Blogging and Social Media Trends Survey Findings