Lots of companies/sites being tracked (260 total).
Sampa dropped two positions but that can be accounted by the two new companies that debuted on the rank ahead of us. The fact is that we dropped our numbers on both Alexa and Compete rankings.
The Alexa explanation is easy. We were featured in TechCrunch in November and that is just "phasing out", plus, add to that our re-focus into the family space and you get the perfect storm for a dropping Alexa Ranking.
Compete on the other hand is supposed to be more resilient than that, according to them, but they are clearly not. Google Analytics show us having a gain of 15-20% M-o-M in PV and UU, but Compete shows a drop of about 5%.
Here is a tip to entrepreneurs: Don't try to artificially increase your Alexa/Compete ranking by asking your friends to install the toolbars and visit your site. This is not sustainable and your company is going to look like a falling rock the month after.
Tonight I'm going to the WSA Industry Achievements Award at the Westin Hotel. I look forward to seeing some of my fellow entrepreneurs and get to meet a few new friends.
And, tomorrow morning I'm going to the NWEN Breakfast where Kelly Smith will be talking about the pains of being an entrepreneur. That's supposed to be very good, first because Kelly is a good speaker, second because a lot of talks are about how great being an entrepreneur is, but they don't prepare you for the rough moments.
In December last I wrote about the high number of IE 6 users out there and our push to get our users to upgrade to IE7 or Firefox. Well, in less than 45 days the number of users running IE6 went from 32.7% to 27.2%. It's a progress, but not enough to make us drop support to IE 6.
I think when IE 6 is below the 5% mark we might make a harder push, meaning, forcing users to upgrade, just to avoid the cost of maintaining support for that browser.
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about his DEMO experience on the Seattle 2.0 blog. Totally worth reading from somebody on the trenches.
October, 2007