Wednesday 21 March 2007

How popular is my site

Looking around the net from seomoz i found a few sites that give me a flavour of popularity against some of our key competition.

http://www.compete.com
http://toolbar.netcraft.com
http://www.ranking.com

ok heres the figures against a few of our competitors



















































potn

rochford

topgear

edworthys

europ

halfords

Ranking (uk)

2536

1850

3254

1503

4614

7000 (world)

Alexa

98,685

12,486

103,037

256,585

237,163

21.829

Netcraft

391,223

206,482

159,840

111,447

295,964

17,361

Compete

452,631

428,984

909,055

815,032

360,722

154,071


Whats it all mean?

Basically as far as i can tell looking deeper into some of these figures.

  • Halfords site is busy (no surprise there then)
  • Europerformance - ok, nothing really to report (apart from the ajax on there new site is nasty)
  • Edworthys - theres some wild swings in figures there, sometimes good sometimes terrible. I know looking at a couple of the heavy hitters, hitwise and another one whos name i cant remember the high figures arent backed up on them.
  • Top Gear - not as good as i thought they'd be considering a good chunk of traffic must be coming from people looking for the tv programme - complete showed lots of visitors little rank which would appear to back that up.
  • Rochford - generally solid although there rapid fall on alexa would indicate that they got the toolbar on spammed it and now cant be arsed to use it.
  • Us - generally ok
Notable ommissions.

Rtec - complete tosser, i have such a dislike of this bloke without having ever met him that i really couldnt be arsed to look at his fruit machine of a site. UPDATE - i checked out rtecshop rankings. On compete.com he didnt even exist, alexa was off to 700,000 or somewhere suitably poor.. haha you muppet.

Motorsportworld - shagged the market out and now being beaten at his own game.

Demon Tweeks - erm.. just forgot them.. maybe thats a mark of our opinion of them as competition

Extreme Auto Accessories - again just forgot about them till id finished writing up strong results on hitwise though. check on compete and alexa. pretty good actually one to watch.


I got sight of the hitwize stats a while ago, notibly only potn, rochford, topgear and extreme auto accessories got any traffic/rank of note.

Wednesday 14 March 2007

Eurotel

If you would'nt like to be ripped off with 400-500% over samsungs rrp on telecoms equipment, do not use Eurotel.

More information on Eurotel and there ripoff pricing coming soon