A few days ago I wrote about Alexa ranking and how four of my sites had jumped up the ranks by a considerable number.
The ranking is based on sites visited by people using the Alexa toolbar. I visit my own sites once a day, just to monitor their ranks, but it can't be just me that pushed them up by an average of 1.5 million places each.
And looking at my ranks again today, there have been some even further increases to the tune of 1,826,023 1,454,320 2,816,698 and 2,099,112. That's an average increase of just over 2 million places each.
I must admit that I made a fundamental error when creating those sites; I didn't put any form of hit counting or tracking on them. Maybe I'd better check my web hosting to see if they provide any statistics.
It would be useful to know how people are getting to my sites to push the ranks up so rapidly.
By the way, I read that once you're within the top 200,000, you've "cracked it". That is to say that you're probably pretty high up in the search engines for your selected keywords, and you're even more likely to get new visitors.
I'll keep on monitoring and see if it's true.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Sorting your life out
A bit of a change in direction today. Way back in 1993 when I was preparing to launch a career as a freelance software engineer, I met an excellent financial advisor by the name of David Scarlett. He organised my pension and various investments which he would monitor and advise me to change when their performance started to dwindle.
David has moved on since then and now provides coaching on how to get your life in gear, including setting yourself up to be financially independent.
David has written an book, The Soul Millionaire, which covers such things as
The difference with David's book is that it's not just some of the usual stuff hurriedly cobbled together into an ebook and pushed onto thousands of would-be Internet marketers for an inflated price. David's book is a novel based on his own life, and it's a real, physical book.
This may sound like a blatant advertisement for David's book, but I'm not making anything from it. I've been thinking about my own life a lot recently, and over the years, David has been an inspiration to me. He's given me great advice, given me hope whan I was down, and most of all, given me a positive attitude to set up goals and work out ways to achieve them.
I think a lot of other people could use his advice, and the simplest way of doing that is to get his book from either Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com.
David has moved on since then and now provides coaching on how to get your life in gear, including setting yourself up to be financially independent.
David has written an book, The Soul Millionaire, which covers such things as
- The 10 Laws that lead to true riches
- Why Financial Freedom is less than 5 years away
- How to easily double your income and make it more predictable
- Why your knowledge and experience is worth a fortune
- How to leverage serious property deals with small deposits
- How to become an information millionaire
- The one secret of great relationships and extraordinary influence
- How to enjoy balance, fulfilment, success... and leave a legacy
The difference with David's book is that it's not just some of the usual stuff hurriedly cobbled together into an ebook and pushed onto thousands of would-be Internet marketers for an inflated price. David's book is a novel based on his own life, and it's a real, physical book.
This may sound like a blatant advertisement for David's book, but I'm not making anything from it. I've been thinking about my own life a lot recently, and over the years, David has been an inspiration to me. He's given me great advice, given me hope whan I was down, and most of all, given me a positive attitude to set up goals and work out ways to achieve them.
I think a lot of other people could use his advice, and the simplest way of doing that is to get his book from either Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com.
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