Online advertising basic: What are “hits”?

December 8, 2009
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How many times have I been asked: “How many hits does your website get a day?”
Frankly, I find that difficult to answer. If I give them the correct answer, they may say I am trying to be smart. If I say, it depends on what you mean by “hits”, they may think that I am [...]

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Alexa traffic ranking and site metrics

September 24, 2009
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Even to someone like me who enjoys browsing over site statistics and testing the accuracy of the resulting metrics, understanding an Alexa traffic rank is not an easy task.
Except for the fact that the Alexa traffic ranking system is based on information generated from Alexa toolbar users and that “A site’s ranking is based [...]

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Website valuation is not for automatons

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I am re-posting an article which I wrote last March at Matter of Sharing and which I would like to revisit within the next few days. Wondering whether there had been articles published recently on the subject, I checked out Google to find out whether I could find some other articles on “website valuation.”
I [...]

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