Comments on: Comparing Finance blogs. Is Alexa worthless?

By: The Sound of Crickets Chirping » Blog Archive » Linkiness

The Sound of Crickets Chirping » Blog Archive » Linkiness — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:24:23 +0000

[...] None of these are new ideas and I’m sure you can find examples of them out in the wild. I just felt like writing about what I’m working on since I’ve been kinda quiet for a while and I’ve been seeing similar things popping up lately. [...]

By: Shadox

Shadox — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:21:47 +0000

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

By: TF Miser

TF Miser — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:54:54 +0000

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.

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» What To Read This Weekend on Blueprint for Financial Prosperity — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:48:08 +0000

[...] Yan at ProBargainHunter compiled a list of personal finance bloggers and ranked them according to a bunch of easily accessible statistics. It’s an impressive list and must have taken hours to compile, kudos to Yan! Enjoy this post? Please subscribe to the RSS feed! Read more in Personal Finance | 1 [...]

By: Yan

Yan — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:02:58 +0000

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?

By: Maki :: Dosh Dosh

Maki :: Dosh Dosh — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:55:32 +0000

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 :)

By: Yan

Yan — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:02:00 +0000

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/

By: Maki :: Dosh Dosh

Maki :: Dosh Dosh — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:04:58 +0000

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

By: Will

Will — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:57:38 +0000

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

By: Yan

Yan — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:06:54 +0000

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