According to Compete, Andy Beard’s Niche Marketing blog traffic was up 2290% in July and rocketed past that of Darren Rowse’s Problogger.
Evidently, Jason Calacanis and John Chow have also grown stupendously.
Hey, I want a 2290% boost in traffic too. I better ask the three of them for tips!
Or maybe not. After all, neither Andy nor Jason’s Alexa ranking has budged. John’s has gone up a bit lately- maybe because he overcame the ill-effects of the Google ban.
Real? Or Toolbar?
Well, it’s remotely possible both traffic ranking companies are right. After all, Compete measures the number of unique montly visitors and and Alexa measures daily visitors. And Compete estimates US traffic while Alexa estimates worldwide traffic.
But why do I think the difference is due to differential adoption of the toolbars both services use to measure traffic? (Maybe Andy can shed some light on this?)
Update:
Andy thinks this might be due to his encouraging people to use the Compete search tool. Evidently so did Dave Airey. But Tricia’s traffic jumped to. Here are five sites all showing traffic jumping by at least a factor of 3 and as much as a factor of 23!
I’m sure LordMatt is right the same thing affected all these blogs Compete ranks. Toolbar? Fix in Competes algorithm? Whatever it was, it affected Niche Marketing,, Feverish Thought, Dosh Dosh, David Airey and, possibly, Lord Matt