Comments on: Rocket Your Traffic: Imitate AndyBeard!

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:56:44 +0000

Here is your proof The other site where I have encouraged the use of the Search Status toolbar a little is David Airey's design blog. Compete of Doshdosh, David Airey and Andy Beard

By: Lord Matt

Lord Matt — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:46:06 +0000

I’d bet that the correlation co-efficient of those blogs that spiked is near to 1. Or in terms that the average guy or gal can understand I reckon they all jumped for the same reason. It’s not traffic so it must be some other score based part. Adoption is unlikely as that is not an “organic” or poisson style random-continuous change but more in line with a sudden shift – a single discrete change. This points to a sample source change.

That sample source change might be to include EU readers (which would explain things somewhat) or some other sampling change such as a release of otherwise blocked data sources into the sample population.

The other option would be a representative conversion for comparative analysis. Such as scaling values from EU sources so they can be compared to US sources based on the effect of a lower population sample from the EU data set.

Hope that was not too technical (I can do that sometimes and I annoy people). Feel free to ask me to say that again but in English.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:09:35 +0000

DoshDosh went up high as well

Don’t forget that Compete is toolbar based and I tend to encourage use of the Search Status plugin for Firefox.

Maybe they fixed a bug?

I have managed to keep traffic fairly stable over the summer whilst growing subscribers a little, but there haven’t been any major spikes

By: Tricia

Tricia — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:51:34 +0000

I compared Andy’s traffic to mine on compete and mine was slightly higher from November to June but then he had a big spike. I’ve apparently only had a 329% increase for the month of July (even though I know my real stats tell me my traffic was down in July and August), however I do have a 21768.5% for the year! LOL

Yes I wonder if Andy is using the compete plugin? That might account for the huge spike for July on compete.