The importance of Alexa rank to your website

What is the importance of Alexa ranking to your website or blog? Is the ranking system reliable? According to Alexa’s “Gathering Web Usage information, it utilizes web usage information coming from the community of Alexa Toolbar users. This means that a website’s Alexa Ranking depends on the traffic generated from visitors who have installed Alexa Toolbar in their internet browsers. This also means that your regular visitors who don’t have the toolbar will not contribute to your ranking. Alexa ranking is based on the three month traffic rank trend of a website. This trend is calculated according to the following:

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6 tips to skyrocket your blog traffic

So the title of this article caught your attention? Perhaps you got a new blog that you want to attract visitors; or you’re running a not so old blog that continuously disappoints you for not pulling the level of traffic you’ve been dreaming? You think you can dramatically increase your blog’s traffic and keep that numbers consistently? Of course you can! And that’s what I’ll tell you in this article. Now enjoy the following six tips on how to attract people coming into that blog of yours.

1. Conquer Stumblers

Stumbleupon, next to Google search pages, is the second referrer of visitors to my blog. Thousands of stumblers have already landed on my Read more

Philippines’ Top 25 Blogs of 2009

Blogs are still kicking and so alive this year. Even though new social media technologies are already emerging like lifestreaming and other social networks platforms, the truth is, blogs will not be replaced instead will continue innovating and evolving into a more interactive, efficient and effective forms of web expressions. That is why blogging is still a very exciting and rewarding activity in the face of the Internet. Consequently, competition for bloggers is still in its high level.  In this article is a list of the 25 best blogs in the Philippines ranked according to popularity (Alexa) and importance (Google). Read more

The Philippine Blog Awards 2009: Business Category

On Friday, October 9, 2009 at PETA Theatre, Quezon City, Metro Manila, the Philippine Blog Awards for 2009 will be held once again. This is the third time that the prestigious awarding body organized by the Philippine Bloggers Awards, Inc. will be giving recognition to outstanding Filipino blogs and bloggers. The theme for the 2009 Philippine Blog Awards is “One Blogging Nation”.

The 1st Philippine Blog Awards was successfully held on March 31, 2007 at the RCBC Theater, RCBC Tower, Makati City with over 200 bloggers and participants attending the awards night. Then on the 21st day Read more

Content is king, living in a marketing castle

Content is king. No, it’s the SEO and marketing. Over the years, these are the arguments of many website and online marketing geeks. And my standing is… content is still the king, with his marketing castle. Why I am telling this? It is because internet marketing is a broad thing. It consists of not only promotion, but it is also and importantly composed of content quality, website efficiency and cost of use. These elements combined, form a royal family, and which “content” is still the leader.

Why promotion is not the king? There are tons of website owners who spend a lot of dime in site promotion like online advertising and search engine optimization, but still a majority of them don’t succeed. And to take a note, those few websites that contain quality contents are the only ones who gain long-term success. Expensive advertising may bring you thousands of visitors during the promotional stage of your site. But this doesn’t mean it will be the scenario as time goes by. It will still depend on the other three factors namely ease of use, cost of use and content quality. The traffic brought by promotion may only pass once and may never come back again if visitors realized the poor quality of a website. Read more

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