Spotplex: Get your blog counted!
To get more traffic and better traffic rank I installed a Spotplex tracker ; if you want to monetize your blog, you should install it too!
- What is Spotplex? Spotplex is a new blog ranking service that counts the number of visitors to individual blog pages. They also display which blog posts are most popular at their web site. And, guess what? Small to medium traffic blogs should have a chance to be highlighted because Spotplex will highlight your posts when the receive an unusal amount of traffic compared to the average experienced at your blog.
- Why should you install it? Two reasons:
Spotplex will quickly be more accurate than Alexa because it’s not based on a toolbar. When Spotplex catches on — and it will do so rather quickly — you can bet eventually advertisers will catch on and prefer Spotplex traffic ranks to Alexa ranks.
Because it hasn’t caught on yet, it can probably bring you some traffic now! Notice today, (July 26, 2008), I’m supposedly the 400-700th ranked blog? Because I had between 10 and 13 visits since I installed the tracking script at 5 pm yesterday?
Well… that doesn’t make me the 400-700th ranked blog. I get that rank because very few blogs are in the system.
Though inaccurate, this ridiculously high ranking a good thing for me. As people discover Spotlex, some are bound to be curious and visit blogs Spotlex highlights. I can’t force Spotplex to highlight my blog, but with so few blogs in the system, there’s a pretty good chance they will!
- Where should you install the Spotplex script?I advise installing the invisible Spotplex counter in your footer. Installing it in the sidebar would likely result in a higher count (because some people don’t stay at a blog long enough to load the footer.) However, you should avoid placing untested counters and traffic in footers until after you have verified they don’t slow your page load. I’ve just installed, so I can’t be sure.
That’s all for today. Good luck, get traffic, and make money!
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I’m not so sure about it; it’s not to say that they shouldn’t take a run and see how far they can go, but it just seems like it’s yet another thing that you put on your website to count who is visiting. And, actually, it seems more like a digg-style site instead of an Alexa replacement since it counts views to individual pages instead of overall traffic to a domain.
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Oh, I agree the script is another “thing” to put on your blog. But that page is good and vanity is likely to motivate people to want to appear.
Also, you can put the javascript in the footer, so it doesn’t slow load for important bits.
I’m going out on a limb making a preditions, but I predict that, in the long run (meaning say, two years) javascrit tracking tool installed by bloggers will displace Alexa because only on-blog tracking tools have any hope of being remotely acurat. So, if not this tracking too, then some other in footer tracking tool will be the traffic ranking method for blogs in general. The reason for this is: no matter what they are doing now, Spotplex (or it’s future competitor) will have the halfway decent data on which to base statistics.
FWIW, I think Alexa is worse than pulling numbers out of a hat. My estimates comparing how Alexa measures traffic on knitting blogs relative to money blogs indicates the Alexa rankings can be off by four orders of magnitude when comparing niches. My estimate is based on three blogs–but still, off by a factor of 20,000? That’s ridiculous.
Alexa seems far too random to be taken seriously. I’m still not sure why companies like Text-link-ads use it as part of their criteria?