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By: George Pickering

George Pickering — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:11:43 +0000

Alexa is a joke. Easily manipulated by having all your friends and employees download the Alexa toolbar.

Compete is a very gross approximation that give inaccurate results for sites below 10,000 uniques a month. I have sites that show going from 2,500 users a month to zero users the next month to 1,400 users the third month…..it is wrong.

By: bruce

bruce — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:13:44 +0000

@Jacob – I use to agree with that statement, then I went from engineering to sales about 10 years ago and learned how to use even good data against my competitors And knowing what the Compete data says compared to reality (and Alexa data for that matter) numbers do lie…..

So, even if we are happy with what the actual traffic is (which we are), even if we had 5 visitors a day we would be happy as long as they were the RIGHT 5 visitors for our customers to get the value they need. Now, obviously we have way more than 5 visitors, but what matters is that we have had results. And that happens by attracting the right visitors.

I really do not like to be sarcastic in my replies like I was in the first one, but as you can imagine I know that some people have no interest in seeing a .ME development be successful so, well, I tend to feel like most naysayers have an agenda.

It may not seem like it but actually negative comments typically give me the best chance to voice what I want. One of the posts I was contemplating doing was iFones.com compared to BruceMarler.com traffic compared to what Alexa and Compete are saying. You may be shocked to know how off the numbers can be. I know this blog actually is pretty much right inline on Alexa but in reality iFones.com does much better than this site but shows up worse in Alexa stats.

Thanks!

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:04:15 +0000

Bruce, there’s no agenda – it was a simple question. I don’t suppose you are going to share the traffic stats. As Rick Swartz says, the numbers don’t lie.

By: bruce

bruce — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:01:21 +0000

@Jim – Thanks!!!

@Jacob – First off good try, but if you have not learned by now not to trust compete stats I am sorry. Admittedly some of the active marketing dropped for us in the winter months our traffic has not dropped during this time.

In fact just today I sat with a customer and went over specific city traffic, all I can say is compete and Alexa both do not show the real story, and the results we have had prove that.

I do not expect you to believe me because you obviously have an agenda but to be honest I do not really care.

What I can say is that I watch traffic very closely for ifones.com, Brucemarler.com, and missouri.me and my alexa shows the best for BruceMarler.com yet ifones.com and Missouri.me both get much higher traffic than this blog. Can I explain it, no, do I care, no.

Good try……

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:20:09 +0000

Any idea what’s been causing the major drop in traffic for Missouri.me last 2 months?

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/missouri.me/

July: 3,690 visits
August: 4,038 visits
September: 6,641 visits
October: 3,478 visits
November: 2,799 visits

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:19:02 +0000

Bruce, as you are obviously aware, a good healthy business model is constantly evolving, and you are just more proof of that. Way to go man!

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