When I first began putting up posts...I honestly has no idea what Alexa was but everyone in the blogoshpere was talking about their Alexa ranking.
Digging more info. I found out that Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is best known for operating a website that provides information on the web traffic to other websites. Alexa collects information from users who have installed an "Alexa Toolbar," allowing them to provide statistics on web site traffic, as well as lists of related links. Without further adieu I went ahead and got myself the Alexa toolbar and saw that my blog was ranked 3,159,519 and it was not even deemed worth of collecting stats since it was not in the first 1,000,000.
45 days later, today - 2 Nov 07, I find my ranking to have risen to 2,141,896. Have overtaken little over a million others. I am very excited and hope to keep updating this blog regularly to get within the first million pages soon.
Will keep updating my Alexa rank here.
update - 9 Nov 2007 - Ranked - 1,929,499.
update - 11 Dec 2007 - Ranked - 1,718,557.
See those nice little tag clouds on blogs and websites...with words of all shapes and sizes floating around? You can get one too. Here's how:
Phydeaux3 has a designed a detailed hack that goes with your blogger template. He also provides instructions on how to customize it. Make sure you back up the original template. To read more about setting up this hack, click here.
If you don't have the patience to go through the above hack or are least inclined to get your hands dirty in modifying the HTML stuff...fear not...you can always try
TAGCLOUD. Just tell Tagcloud the kind of cloud you want, take the code and just add it as a page element.
And if you have your mind set on monetizing the blog...here's one tagcloud you can monetize- AdsClick. (Like the one I am presently trying on my blog)They promise a whopping 80% share of the revenue and you can:
Choose the automatically set the best performing key words or manually configure the one's
you want.
Control your text ad display with design and filtering options
Use one account for multiple text ad formats - IAB, RSS, Tag Clouds, Inline Text Links.
Access detailed reporting and earnings simulation
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