Category Archives: Business

When we try to figure out the growth of a site, or the relative traffic between sites, we often turn to the only free public tools available for the job. That would be Compete.com and Alexa.com. Both are known to … Continue reading →

A pet peeve of mine is when bloggers mistakingly interpret Technorati’s Top Blogs list as a measure of a site’s relative traffic. This is not what it measures. Technorati’s Top Blogs list measures the number of inbound links, not traffic … Continue reading →

Besides my usual website activities, I tend to pay a lot of attention to the nature of the websites, and like to explore what’s been popular and what’s not. For personal interest as well as research for potential new projects. … Continue reading →

I got a lot of spam. I know some of you are saying “sure, we all get a lot of spam”. But for me, a combination of running various websites over the years, and not wanting to throw away my … Continue reading →

I’ve always had an interest in web startups and web based businesses. There is a growing boom in internet-based companies in the past few years. The reason is clear… the cost to startup is far cheaper on the internet than … Continue reading →