After their Alexa.com ranking tanked, the gold bug site the Daily Bell shot the messenger in calling Alexa’s ranking system an “elite methodology.”
Well, look who’s adopted an “elite methodology” now. As of November 8, 2012, none other than the Daily Bell, itself, has adopted one, by installing Alexa’s paid service, “CERTIFIED PRO,” on their servers.
This from the same site that claimed it had received 17 million monthly page views, without providing any evidence whatsoever for such a bold claim, considering other sites with far higher rankings report that amount of traffic in an entire year.
For how much longer will the majority of those in the alternative research community who frequent that site continue to let such claims and contradictions go unchallenged? Is it just entertainment for most people?
[...] Daily Bell, which had previously blasted Alexa as an “elite methodology,” only to later adopt it, has had 5 Alexa reviews in just 8 days since October 29, [...]
[...] mounting evidence against their claims, they continued to perpetuate their unfounded claims, and as recently as November 10, a regular Daily Bell reader tried defending their readership number clai…, showing that people are willing to cling to obviously false claims, facts and logic be [...]
[...] mounting evidence against their claims, they continued to perpetuate their unfounded claims, and as recently as November 10, a regular Daily Bell reader tried defending their readership number clai…, showing that people are willing to cling to obviously false claims, facts and logic be [...]
Hey, Faux Capitalist, DB obviously ignores your comments, but I have a question. DB posted a perfectly legitimate explanation of its numbers, showing you confused “page views” with “hits.” Here it is from back in August.
http://www.thedailybell.com/4181/Strange-Bedfellows-More-Authoritarian-Linkages-to-Paper-Money-
You are the one who confused page views with “hits” (which can be in the millions per month) and are no doubt taken from their own internal numbers. You don’t add any luster to your attack site by mis-stating the obvious.
As for the Alexa stats, it looks like an Alexa mistake to me or everything would be posted, including “visitors” and “page views” not just two out of four indices. Let’s see if it stays up or gets taken off. If it is an Alexa error, presumably you’ll note that as well … right? (Especially since the website is back up to 70,882 worldwide and is ranked 17,000 in the US.) I’m sure they don’t care but professional courtesy would seem to demand at least a clarification? Don’t you agree?
Yeah, that’s why they clicked through to my site at least three times and have indirectly responded to points I’ve raised in their articles — because they ignore me.
As for your statement about page views vs. hits, they said this: “our specific page view counts and visit counts (both un-reported) have declined somewhat.” Claiming 17 million hits for the month of June while in the depths of its Alexa hemorrhaging is hardly a case of having “declined somewhat,” and the numbers still don’t add up relative to other sites, even after they installed “CERTIFIED PRO.”
As for my reference to “page views,” I had previously quoted directly from them in saying “hits.” I used page views interchangeably with hits in this article, as some draw no distinction between the two. Going forward, I will be absolutely precise in using the term “hits.”
As for demanding a clarification from Alexa, why is that necessary when the DB has installed “CERTIFIED PRO” on its servers to presumably inform them of the most accurate information?