Since joining EntreCard, the traffic for Ken’s Trees has skyrocketed. One of the websites that keeps track of traffic on the internet is Alexa, it’s like the official internet popularity contest. When I checked the Alexa rank the other week, Ken’s Trees made it into the top 1 million websites online drawing 0.000325% of all traffic on the internet. Then I saw that I could buy a t-shirt to show off how popular my website is, I started laughing at this and I couldn’t resist. Willard is now officially the most popular bonsai tree seedling in the world. Since ordering the shirt the Alexa rank has improved to 272,662 drawing 0.000505% of the traffic on the internet and is on pace to break into the top 100,000 sites within the next two months.
Meg Says:
March 20th, 2008 at 7:04 pmVisit Meg
Yeah! Go Willard!
I never heard of Alexa, but I just played around with it a little–that’s a pretty cool site. I usually just check out our blog on Technorati, but I guess all those sites use different metrics to figure out their rankings. Interesting …
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Ken Says:
March 20th, 2008 at 11:27 pmVisit Ken
I actually think that technorati is a better way to “measure” a blog. It’s one thing to get traffic to your site (alexa rank), and quite another to actually get people to “react” to it and link back (technorati rank and Google PageRank).
B Carter Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 5:31 amVisit B Carter
I love Entrecard, but the only problem is your Alexa rank will drop like a rock the week you stop using it.
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Judi Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 8:06 amVisit Judi
Great shirt Ken - what a hoot!
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Ken Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 9:02 amVisit Ken
@B Carter: this is why I told Meg that I think the technorati rank is better. I guess the thing with Entrecard is that hopefully it converts a couple people into long term readers, and I think I have accomplished that.
@Judi: thanks I’m wearing it today!
Debt Free Revolution Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 3:03 pmVisit Debt Free Revolution
LOL! Love the t-shirt (now you need a DFR one to go with it). And I think you can honestly claim to have the most popular baby tree on the internet
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Laura Says:
March 21st, 2008 at 4:20 pmVisit Laura
Go Willard.
Just don’t light a fire under him.
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unTECHy Says:
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:44 amVisit unTECHy
Putting Alexa’s widget on your website helps improve your Alexa ranking as well.
I put it on unTECHy.com about 3 weeks ago. Since then, my ranking went from 3million+ to just over 800,000. It seems to drop quite a bit every day. I’m expecting to make the top 100,000 by April.
Then maybe I’ll order the shirt
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The Monday Read - 03/31/2008 | Saphrym Says:
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paresh Says:
July 21st, 2008 at 3:17 amVisit paresh
nice zol.
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