Legend of the Syndicate is a publication worth reading by anyone interested in the history of the Massive genre, or the future of social networks online.
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Outside of novelty value, I'm not sure there's a lot of other people who might find this text enlightening
Thanks buttnugget. You actually made me waste 3 minutes with that opening "future of social networks" line. waste.
I'll take a Wii and a PS3 too... The only reason I want a PS3 is for Winning Eleven. The best sports gaming experience ever. Okay maybe Metal Gear Solid too when the new one's unveiled.
No Google initiative has done a better job at encouraging new content than the AdSense/AdWords programs.
Correction: no Google initiate has done a better job at encouraging crap content than the AdSense/AdWords programs. And Google doesn't care about spammy arbitrage blackhats, either.
It's gotten so bad that using AdSense in a traditional manner actually degrades a site's credibility IMO. Yes, I use it too but more and more discreetly. That = lower CTR but higher professionalism hopefully.
Alexa rankings will always be worthless compared to the site traffic logs, but it does have some uses. It's a "big picture" tool at best and can be used to spot trends in traffic growth / decay. When I work on linking strategies or affiliate marketing I use Alexa data in a general way to drill down the huge pool of possible targets. It enables me to sort a long list easily.
Another thing it's good for is during campaigns. The spikes in traffic during a promotion can help give an idea of its success. Obviously not accurate, but a significator of trends. It usually reflects fairly accurately what I find in the traffic logs themselves - for instance a jump in traffic for October during the "xxx" promotion or whatever....
What's important is that all Web analytics and sampling have flaws. There is no perfect tool. Agencies use data from Statmarket, Netratings, Onestat, etc every single day to make business decisions, even when this data varies widely.
My own method is to gather what I can from tools like Alexa and compare it with others. Contrast, crunch, find something useful. Hopefully.
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I for one want a kick-ass Transporter!
I'll take a Wii and a PS3 too... The only reason I want a PS3 is for Winning Eleven. The best sports gaming experience ever. Okay maybe Metal Gear Solid too when the new one's unveiled.
Phooey!
Correction: no Google initiate has done a better job at encouraging crap content than the AdSense/AdWords programs. And Google doesn't care about spammy arbitrage blackhats, either.
It's gotten so bad that using AdSense in a traditional manner actually degrades a site's credibility IMO. Yes, I use it too but more and more discreetly. That = lower CTR but higher professionalism hopefully.
Alexa rankings will always be worthless compared to the site traffic logs, but it does have some uses. It's a "big picture" tool at best and can be used to spot trends in traffic growth / decay. When I work on linking strategies or affiliate marketing I use Alexa data in a general way to drill down the huge pool of possible targets. It enables me to sort a long list easily.
Another thing it's good for is during campaigns. The spikes in traffic during a promotion can help give an idea of its success. Obviously not accurate, but a significator of trends. It usually reflects fairly accurately what I find in the traffic logs themselves - for instance a jump in traffic for October during the "xxx" promotion or whatever....
What's important is that all Web analytics and sampling have flaws. There is no perfect tool. Agencies use data from Statmarket, Netratings, Onestat, etc every single day to make business decisions, even when this data varies widely.
My own method is to gather what I can from tools like Alexa and compare it with others. Contrast, crunch, find something useful. Hopefully.