New Tools: Alexa and Current Pagerank
- Posted by B Jones on February 9th, 2006 - Comment on this Post »
I haven’t really been blogging much lately. That’s because I’ve been busy working on some new SEO tools for the site. So today I am announcing 2 of them.
1. Multiple Data Centers “Current” PageRank Check. This is actually pretty cool because it gives a lot more info than the regular “current” Pagerank tool, which only shows data for one random data center.
If you don’t know about the “Current” Pagerank tool, it is an experimental tool that I believe is showing the actual “current” pagerank value. Not just the value that is exported every few months.
Compare the results from the tools below. (as with the other data center tools, BigDaddy data centers are marked with a red BD)
New “Current” Pagerank data center tool
Toolbar Pagerank data center tool
2. Alexa Rank Comparison. This is nothing new really. I have just made it very easy to compare Alexa Ranking on up to 10 different sites at a time. It grabs a great looking graph from Alexa.com and displays it. It’s actually a lot of fun, but it only works with websites that are at least somewhat established and popular.
Also, the tool is only accurate when comparing sites that are very similar or in the same industry.
Below is a comparison of Kmart.com, Walmart.com, and Target.com.
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February 9th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
Awesome tools! Great work!
But I do have one suggestion… it would be so great if the Alexa tool could show results on a “smaller scale” for smaller sites. As it stand now, its a great tool for comparing Office Depot to Office Max, ect.. but when comparing smaller “nitche” sites to each other, their overall numbers are so (relatively) small that comparing them to each other on a chart that plots millions of visitors renders tiny lines at the bottom of the screen which are hardly comprehensible.
If only the chart’s max could be set just a little higher than the highest month for any one domain, and the scale be recalibrated… that would be great!
But I know this might be a lot of work so you might have to save this suggestion for another day.
Thanks again for your great tools!
–Rob McEwen
February 10th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
BTW - I noticed that seologs.com is getting the same treatment on the “current pagerank” lookups that I’m getting… PR5 on Big Daddy and PR4 on regular google. I know that I’ve asked about this before, but now that this is happening to YOU, too, I’m curious if you’ve gotten any “inside’ info on why this is so… I wonder if this is a common thing?
Also, I’ve noticed that Big Daddy’s spider has been somewhat inactive lately and some newer pages on my sites are getting indexed on non-big daddy, but NOT on Big Daddy. I suspect that (1) they are holding back the PR toolbar update until after Big Daddy is fully implemented and (2) Big Daddy is on a pause/go schedule regarding spidering so that they can keep the data static for periods of time as they examine the results.
I just wish they’d hurry up and get that thing going and get back to business. This whole thing is driving me crazy!!!
–Rob McEwen
February 11th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Yes. I’m definitely hoping that the Bigdaddy resluts will prevail.
>(1) they are holding back the PR toolbar update until after Big Daddy is fully implemented
and
>(2) Big Daddy is on a pause/go schedule regarding spidering so that they can keep the data static for periods of time as they examine the results.
Number 1 and number 2 both sound reasonable to me.
As for 1, it would make sense that they would hold of on any big updates until they get the whole Bigdaddy thing straightened out and propagated to all of the data centers.
As for your second point, I’m not sure about the spidering, but I know for sure that from time to time the results from the 3 Bigdaddy data centers can be turned off (therefore reverting back to the pre-Bigdaddy state) from time to time.
From Matt Cutts
Q: Will those IP addresses always show Bigdaddy results?
A: No, not always. Sometimes data centers are taken out of the rotation for testing or other reasons.
By the way Rob, what software do you use to track spiders?
February 14th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Currently, I’m using a “home grown” and very substandard system where I get my asp.net app to e-mail info to a special e-mail account for each page view. But the great part about this is that (1) I get “spiders” and (2) the sessions match up exactly one-to-one between what asp.net considered a session to that gets reported as a session in the reporting.
Eventually, I’m going to upgrade to “real” analytics… but I can’t recall off-hand that company that I’ve chosen to go with. I researched this last month.. but I’ve gotten busy with other things since then. I really like the way this company charges for their services and there is a feature they offer that I really need and haven’t found elsewhere. When I get a chance I’ll look them up and mention it to you as you might want to add them to your analytics comparision page.
Regarding Big Daddy… I haven’t gotten very many spider visits from Big Daddy in weeks. Also, I created some new pages to target particular phrases several days ago. Big Daddy has yet to pick them up or isn’t ranking them appropriately… but “regular” google loves them and they now show up quite high for these particular phrases.
This really irritates me as I’d like for Big Daddy to get on with it and start updating their index regularly. Part of the problem here is also that they haven’t reindexed other pages on my site which now link to these new pages so, without those links being taken into account, Bid Daddy isn’t placing much weight on these new pages even when found, unlike “regular” google.
This whole “pause” we seem to be in now is really annoying!
April 8th, 2008 at 6:03 am
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