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27 Responses to “Comparing Finance blogs. Is Alexa worthless?”

1. 1 Enough Wealth Apr 17th, 2007 at 6:05 am

   Nice table – pity I’m not included ;(

   One thing I noticed with my blog is that the move from blogspot URL to my own domain (redirected to blogspot) stuffed up my technorati ranking, google pagerank etc, as I know have a mix of links to the old URL and the new:
   http://enoughwealth.blogspot.com
   http://enoughwealth.com

   I also mirror my content onto
   http://enoughwealth.savingadvice.com
   and it’s interesting that the readership of savingadvice hosted blogs seems discrete from those that frequent pfblogs etc. I’ve had a fairly steady readership of around 40/day on blogspot, but get around 95/day on the savingadvice site.

   Regards
   http://enoughwealth.com

2. 2 john Apr 17th, 2007 at 6:07 am

   Very interesting, I love facts and figures. What about your site? What are your stats and rank?

3. 3 Mr Credit Card Apr 17th, 2007 at 6:28 am

   Thanks for mentioning my blog. I guess alexa does give you a sense of how your blog is “doing” in your space. Having said that, new and upcoming blogs will have have “good” alexa scores. But they should not be dismissed because of that.

4. 4 fivecentnickel.com Apr 17th, 2007 at 7:40 am

   Interesting. I just ran some quick stats (following appropriate transformations) and found that everything but PageRank in your table is (individually) significantly correlated with Alexa ranking. However, when I ran a multiple regression (i.e., considered all factors simultaneously), most of those effects went away, leaving just Technorati ranking as a good predictor of Alexa ranking.

5. 5 Clever Dude Apr 17th, 2007 at 8:18 am

   It’s strange I’m the only PR 2 in the top ~27 of the list (next one is Rateladder.com). Everyone else is PR 4 or above.

   Perhaps I should actually have hope I’ll bump up to a 5 after this current google PR update! My site started at 4 until the last update in December/January when I dropped to a 2.

   Thanks Yan!

6. 6 Yan Apr 17th, 2007 at 10:24 am

   John:
   My stats as of yesterday:

   Alexa: 77324
   Page Rank: 4
   Technorati: 24593
   RSS: 714
   Del.icio.us: 72
   Visitors: 899
   Page Views: 2115

   I didn’t include my blog since I didn’t feel it was a good match to the Personal Finance category.

   fivecentnickel.com:

   Could you share details on how you calculated the correlation?

   Clever Dude:

   You should complain to Google. ;-)
   Seriously though, a lot of factors affect Page Rank. It is mostly influenced by back links but from what I know even the type of websites that link to you can make the difference.

7. 7 Clever Dude Apr 17th, 2007 at 10:32 am

   I have about 650 backlinks, which isn’t too bad. Alot of them are from sites in the top 10 above like nickel and many other financial blogs.

   I feel the update coming on really soon. My PR is showing at 0 for all but 4 of google’s servers. That either means those servers are ready to reset or my PR really dropped to 0 (like Flexo’s). We’ll find out soon though!

8. 8 Stephanie @ PoorerThanYou Apr 17th, 2007 at 12:05 pm

   I notice you don’t have the RSS or Sitemeter stats for PoorerThanYou. The RSS I understand – I took down the chicklet. However, it’s still active, so you can call it up via http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/PoorerThanYou
   Of course, I tell you this on a day that my RSS subscribership is down a significant amount! ;)

   But the SiteMeter stats are easily accessible, right on my site. http://www.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=s31poorer

9. 9 Yan Apr 17th, 2007 at 1:38 pm

   Stephanie:

   What was your RSS count yesterday?

   I also noticed a big drop today for my blog. Google Feedfetcher part of subscribers fell more than twice. I account it for some technical issues at FeedBurner or Google.

10. 10 mapgirl Apr 17th, 2007 at 4:12 pm

    http://www.technorati.com/profile/mapgirl

    Try going there for my Technorati rank. I don’t quite know how to fix it, but I’ll work on that someday.

    Interesting compilation though. Thanks for doing it. Makes me wonder if I could be doing more.

11. 11 Yan Apr 17th, 2007 at 4:23 pm

    mapgirl:

    I had the same problem and fixed it just recently. Submitting the issue to Technorati forums is what did the trick for me.
    http://support.technorati.com/

12. 12 Dean Apr 17th, 2007 at 8:01 pm

    Awesome list, you really put in the effort. I have to check out some of those sites.

13. 13 Sun Apr 17th, 2007 at 11:19 pm

    Thanks for the list, Yan! You must have spent lots of time on this. There’s a problem with my Technorati rank since it appears stuck at 25 links all the time. I emailed them about the problem, but never got a reply.

14. 14 GOlbguru Apr 18th, 2007 at 4:20 am

    Wow…you must have incredible patience. This rocks. :)
    Thanks for doing this. Some people say “ha..numbers mean nothing”…but I won’t be surprised to see some of them visiting this post 10 times a day to compare their numbers with others. :)

15. 15 prlinkbiz Apr 18th, 2007 at 10:08 am

    Wow- I am impressed by how much research you did! I didn’t even know that about NLL! We started it as a hobby, but hey, we’ve been doing this for a while now, we might as well do it right, huh? lol

16. 16 George Apr 18th, 2007 at 6:34 pm

    Nice research! I appreaciate that you included my site, Fat Pitch Financials.

    Hey fivecentnickel, I’d love to see your statistical analysis on this table. Are you planning on posting your results?

17. 17 Yan Apr 18th, 2007 at 7:06 pm

    Thanks, George. I have just finished my analysis and you are going to see it posted very soon, maybe later today

18. 18 Will Apr 18th, 2007 at 10:57 pm

    Nice work Yan! This is probably the most comprehensive ranking I’ve ever seen.

    I know people tend to say they don’t care about stats, but I think PF bloggers are naturally pretty curious about numbers in general. We love to measure performance. =)

    For what it’s worth, here’s Wise Bread’s data:

    Alexa: 22,468
    Page Rank: 6
    Technorati: 2808
    RSS: 1340
    Del.icio.us: 208

19. 19 Maki :: Dosh Dosh Apr 19th, 2007 at 7:04 pm

    That was harsh. No my blog is not about Personal Finance. Apologies.

20. 20 Yan Apr 19th, 2007 at 8:02 pm

    Sorry it may have sounded harsh. I made the assumption in the very first paragraph of my blog post. By the way, I have done the analysis of this data already. In case you missed it, here is the link:
    http://probargainhunter.com/20.....-analysis/

21. 21 Maki :: Dosh Dosh Apr 19th, 2007 at 4:55 pm

    Yan,

    The Alexa Rank Bias is most apparent when I look at this list that you’ve created. Even though I’m sure that my blog receives less visitors than sites like Get Rich Slowly or The Simple Dollar, my rank is better than them.

    Probably because my blog deals more about linkbuilding/SEO/Webmaster related stuff. I’m linking through to my post on Alexa Ranking if anyone is interested :)

22. 22 Yan Apr 19th, 2007 at 5:02 pm

    Will

    Thanks for stopping by. Your numbers do look impressive! Care to share average daily visitors / pageviews as well?

    Maki

    You are missing the point. Alexa makes perfect sense when apples to apples are compared, that is blogs/websites from the same category. Is your blog about Personal Finance?

23. 23 TF Miser Apr 21st, 2007 at 11:54 am

    I know you couldn’t include every PF blog but my blogs BankBonuses.info and TightFistedMiser.com both have Alexa rating in the 200,000’s so they would have made the list.

24. 24 Shadox Apr 22nd, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    One of these days…. one of these days… I am going to be up there with the big boys…

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