Another Blog

Last night I set up another blog. Unlike this one, it uses WordPress, which means that the blog is hosted by my own domain host.
WordPress comes as a bundle of PHP scripts, so if there's something I don't like about it, I can change it.

The content of the blog is related to this one in that it's basically about making money. It's a total experiment, but I'm not going to reveal the basis of that experiment otherwise it is bound to fail.
However, if it works, I'll be logging it here so that anyone who's reading will be able to replicate it and make some money too.

Check it out at Unmarked Bills.

And the above link to the blog is also an experiment. I'm not going to ping the other blog to get it seen by the search engines. Instead, I'll ping this blog and see if the other blog gets noticed.

Aaaaaggggh! Alexa is driving me nuts!

As I mentioned recently, I discovered that Alexa doesn't just count hits on a site, but hits on separate pages within a site. That's what started my BrowseBot experiment, to see what effect viewing every page of a site had on the Alexa rank.

I check and log the rank every day to view the progress. Now I find that I'm getting a different rank depending on which page I view on the same site.
It's not a unique rank per page, but one of two rank figures comes up depending on the page.

There's no rational explanation for this. The pages are all in my own domain, and there's nothing strange about them.

The only possible reason I can think of is that there are several Alexa servers (very likely), and their databases don't always match. I suspect that with so many sites logged, they probably don't get the chance to synchronise their databases as often as they would like.