Traffic Ranking

[Macho 411]

whats this dude doing / using to do this

http://www.meninthepark.com/links.htm

[rick]

You mean what script is he using to grep the Alexa rankings to his site and post them?

[Macho 411]

yeah I guess .....

[desslock]

Hi 411:

Those are Alexa rankings. Alexa is a comapany that is owned by Amazon.com. Just from my knowledge of Amazon or eBay, Alexa is probably putting its website ranking data out there, and you can use one of their web services to make it dynamically appear on your website.

They probably have a "toolkit" or something to customize the appearance of the results on your site. Or there are probably little freeware programs written in PERL or SOAP that pulls this data down, and prints it onto the web page.

As an editorial comment - I think that Alexa is a dog. It's results are at best bizzare, and arguably meaningless. Alexa rankings are aggregate totals of web surfing culled from just the people who use the Alexa toolbar.

[Another good reason to refuse it - it's spyware)

And those folks who do use it are not at all a proper sample of websurfers.

Don't confuse this with the Google toolbar --- which is a very powerful tool. Live it. Learn it. Love it.

Steve

:army:

[Macho 411]

Hey there Steve thanks for all your input!

[LavenderLounge]

I have a distaste for Alexa simply because my ex-boyfriend (who dumped me!) used to work there.

Otherwise, I have no idea how the damn thing works and he couldn't explain it either.

[gel]

That is awesome.

If Macho if you find out anything I'd appreciate it if you share it..

I sent an emai off to who I'm guessing is the owner of the page. If I get a response I'll let you know.