| User | Post |
|
8:41 am
August 8, 2011
|
OneCentAtatime
| | Florida, USA | |
| Member
| posts 1778 | 
|
|
|
so far I have got all other ranks, except 'Compete'. any help on this aspect will be appreciated.
I see many of you have very decent compete rank.
|
|
|
|
|
9:03 am
August 8, 2011
|
Henry @ TotallyMoney
| | London | |
| Member | posts 95 | |
|
|
That happens quite a bit. If compete don't have enough data on your visit numbers they do not return a value. You just have to get more visitors to your website and eventually compete will pick up on it
|
|
|
|
|
9:06 am
August 8, 2011
|
BeatingBroke
| | North Dakota, USA | |
| Member | posts 860 |
|
|
|
I think compete works a lot like Alexa in that they may just not have a very large sample of data to estimate numbers and give your site a rank. Should come with time though.
|
|
|
|
|
9:18 am
August 8, 2011
|
Derek@LifeAndMyFinances
| | |
| Member
| posts 1298 |
|
|
|
Yep. Increase the number of visitors and you'll start to see your compete rank. They aren't very accurate, so I wouldn't worry too much about them.
|
|
|
|
|
3:56 pm
August 8, 2011
|
OneCentAtatime
| | Florida, USA | |
| Member
| posts 1778 |
|
|
|
thank you! I am trying…believe me I am trying .
|
|
|
|
|
4:19 pm
August 8, 2011
|
JT_McGee
| | |
| Member | posts 723 |
|
|
|
If you sign up for a free account and install the code then the Compete ranking will be far more accurate. Do note that it only counts visits to the homepage, which is still misleading as most of your visitors probably RSS/search into the site and don't navigate to home.
|
|
|
|
|
12:22 am
August 9, 2011
|
Buy Like Buffett
| | |
| Member
| posts 1682 |
|
|
|
I think Compete automatically detects your numbers once you have enough site traffic to register.
|
|
|
|
|
5:49 am
August 9, 2011
|
MoneyBeagle
| | |
| Member
| posts 1466 |
|
|
|
I might try the code installation. I've had my blog for almost three years now and have decent traffic, yet my complete rank is in the pits. Kind of annoying.
|
|
|
|
|
6:39 am
August 9, 2011
|
Sunil from The Extra Money Blog
| | |
| Member | posts 362 |
|
|
|
wow guys – didn't even know compete rank existed. anyone with a brief synopsis of what it is and why it is important for us?
with alexa, moz, G PR, seems like yet another stat to add to the plate
|
The Extra Money Blog– Expedited Wealth Building Through Multiple Streams of Active & Passive Income (Entrepreneurship, Internet Marketing, Personal Finance)
|
|
|
7:53 am
August 9, 2011
|
JT_McGee
| | |
| Member | posts 723 |
|
|
|
Sunil from The Extra Money Blog said:
wow guys – didn't even know compete rank existed. anyone with a brief synopsis of what it is and why it is important for us?
with alexa, moz, G PR, seems like yet another stat to add to the plate
Why it matters: It doesn't other than that it's used as part of the PF blogosphere ranking lists. That's why I bothered to put the code on my site, and for no other reason.
|
|
|
|
|
7:57 am
August 9, 2011
|
Henry @ TotallyMoney
| | London | |
| Member | posts 95 | |
|
|
Compete is much the same as Alexa. I find both of them inaccurate and tend to check both of the numbers. They attempt to estimate traffic numbers from websites mainly using toolbar data.
Alexa is more generally used and some advertisers use that number, but the amount of visitors you actually get to your blog is far more important.
|
|
|
|
|
8:17 am
August 9, 2011
|
Sunil from The Extra Money Blog
| | |
| Member | posts 362 |
|
|
|
|
|
The Extra Money Blog– Expedited Wealth Building Through Multiple Streams of Active & Passive Income (Entrepreneurship, Internet Marketing, Personal Finance)
|
|
|
10:41 am
August 9, 2011
|
Suba @ Wealth Informatics
| | |
| Moderator
| posts 1876 |
|
|
|
As other said, compete works the same way as Alexa. But there is no way to influence it like with a toolbar. They have a sample audience and they extrapolate the traffic.
And installing the code won't influence the ranking. The code is ONLY to collect the demographics of your visitors. It seems stupid to collect the demographics and not use the data to influence the compete score, but that is how it works. Don't take my word for it http://www.compete.com/help/q225
Advertisers might be interested in knowing your demographics, so for that purpose, you can install the code. But to improve the score, you just have to give it time.
|
|
|
|
Login
Search 
Home
Print this Topic 
Topic RSS 
