Though it's worth noting that our traffic stats fell off a cliff over winter break, for some odd reason. Anyone else seen this? Or is it just that OB is commonly read as a procrastinating substitute for school/work?
We witnessed this as well and a similar, but much shorter trend over Thanksgiving. I would guess it's due to people dealing with holiday stuff and not being at work. My parents still don't believe me that most people don't do anything at work for significant chunks of the day (or in some cases all day).
Traffic is usually best for TicketStumbler Tuesday - Thursday and worst on Saturday & Sunday.
Can someone see if the Friendly Atheist (that phrase just written out as two words) now returns Hemant Mehta's blog site as the first result? For a while he was way back on the second page of results, even though he should plainly be in first place. (I used the wiki tools to modify results for that search on Google, so I can't tell if there has been an improvement.)
I see a mixture of better and worse results with my usual torture-test searches. It still looks like brief entries on blogs get page rank that is too high compared to more substantive articles, presumably because they get lots of inbound links.
Still the same. Though PR doesn't really seem to matter that much anymore. My site with PR 0 gets much more traffic from Google than my site with PR 4.
I think submitting to Yahoo and getting some press for our microsite were the biggest factors. We also put footers on the bottom of our sites linking back to us which can't hurt
Does anyone here use grader.website.com on Hubspot? It perplexes me that my site receives a much higher grade then my competitors, yet their page rank is higher (we have more inbound links then they do).
went from a 7 to a 4. wtf? i blame my bbPress forums, which I didn't realize for a while didnt no follow links until i hacked the theme a bit to no follow.
edit:
http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php
Looks like Mibbit is a 7 :)