Comments on: Keyword Competition Metrics

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I am unable to find Alexa’s XML Data Feed. The link from their FAQ returns a Page Not Found error. Here’s the FAQ:

http://pages.alexa.com/exec/faqsidos/help/index.html?index=95

Do you have another link?

On a related note. The “www.alexa.com” link from this article also returns a page not found because it does not begin with “http://”. This should really be fixed because I find it is a problem with almost every blog post on here.

By: maxor

maxor — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Another greate post. This is a great addition to the other blogs here. Keep em' coming!

By: willoworks

willoworks — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Sweet! I never knew you could use those parameters in advanced search. Keep 'em coming, we love this stuff!

By: ct_roy

ct_roy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

me neither – those advanced params are great!

By: Mark Harbottle

Mark Harbottle — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

excellent post, thanks Dan.

By: bespokesites

bespokesites — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

do you have other really useful param's out there that can help weed out the reems of directories that mask the search results ???

By: Percept

Percept — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

A very nice post … this blog is a great addition already.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Regarding my first comment about Alexa’s XML Data Feed, they have just replaced the feed with a new “Web Information Service”. It is free during the beta period.

http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/WebInfoService.html

By: Zapita

Zapita — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

just thought this would be updated more often (wasn't meant to be 3 times a week? i had understad that). ;)

By: DanThies

DanThies — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Apologies for the lack of updates… I’ve been in New York for the Search Engine Strategies conference and ‘net access was just awful. Very funny to watch 3,000 search engine marketers running around with their laptops open trying to get a good signal. I even tried to hit the Starbucks and get on T-Mobile, but it was packed with people wearing the same SES badge I was wearing.

By: duuudie

duuudie — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

thumbs up Dan. Can't wait to read your book!

-Alex

By: Arthur Wetselaar

Arthur Wetselaar — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

May I ask why you use Alexa to determine link popularity and not google's link: functionality?

By: DanThies

DanThies — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Google’s link: search doesn’t show you all of the links they’ve found, and they like to change it up so you can’t compare the numbers over time. We like Alexa’s count because it’s based on the number of unique web hosts linking to a domain.