THE BITTER TRUTH ABOUT ALEXA RANKS

 When I started blogging I knew I had to monitor my progress and searching online I came across ALEXA.

it was a bit of a shock to me

I knew that there were billions of websites on the web and here at Alexa there were only about 25 million or so being ranked.   Why?

I couldn't make sense of it

I searched more and found that in order to find a rank on Alexa you must have some amount of traffic besides some other mundane things about your website like original content and so on.

Then it dawned on me why so many people fail to make money online.

Its as much about making money online as building a small business around your website !!!!

And that's where Alexa has nailed it *******

you can count on this inference of mine that if a website has Alexa rank of less than 100,000 then its certainly making money online.

the next bit is even more important ****

If a website has made it to the somewhere about 1000,000 spot on alexa then its about to start making money.. the jingle of dollars is so sweet......

at this millionth rank on Alexa advertising becomes attractive and you can get a price for it as a publisher. And advertising is the good old game of the internet that has everyone running around in circles

more on this later !!!!

NOW AN UPDATE ABOUT THIS

To sell advertising on your site it must be attractive enough to buyers. your content should target and point towards a product or service that is 'preferably' already selling in large volumes or revenues. This can be anything of course but its easier to look at traditional or old products that have been selling for a while as they can be understood.

As I sais earlier the ones that make money have a good Alexa rank. I came across a site that I do not know much about but it looks to me its making a decent amount of money. Its owned by an offline business.

And here I must pause and mention that by revealing info about that site I may be violating some rules of privacy or terms and conditions. For anyone reading this info if it appears to be objectionable or too prying into somebody's online/offline business please do mention it in the comments or leave a message that I can make the required changes. this part of the post can be taken offline or deleted, if needed.

Now to the website I want to tell you about. It is www.citylab.com and it has an Alexa rank of  about 10000.

The good thing to draw from this is if you want to build a good website then you could check it out and draw inferences as to how they run their website. Of course each website is related to a different product or service and so is this one. And probably you as a reader have that in mind as well.

THEY ARE SELLING ADVERTISING ON THEIR WEBSITE.

That should get you interested in this. They are not facebook or google or bbc or mashable or amazon. They are lower down on the success ladder and that's why they are so interesting. Not everyone can come up with facebook or twitter or whatsapp and make billions of dollars. A lower expectation level and  certainly a different kind of success is achievable.

I WILL DISCUSS THE BANNER ADS THEY HAVE


 

APPLE SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD ON A WINDOWS COMPUTER

TAKING CARE OF YOUR PC

I use my PC everyday for about 6-7 hours and mostly it gives me no trouble. Watching videos on Youtube is a normal activity. I like music a lot and somehow I came across iTunes by apple. I haven't used it much but since apple is such a great product I decided to download iTunes on my computer.

For a while it was all okay. Then slowly things weren't running that smoothly and it irritated me. I did not know what to do and not having any other help could not find a solution.

This continued for a couple of months. Sometimes things would be fine and at other times small irritants would crop up, my internet connection would snap or something else would happen. I could not explain it.

Then all of a sudden one day I found that apple iTunes was sitting on my computer and I had hardly used it. There was also some other download like icloud or something which I can't recall. I decided to get rid of it !  I uninstalled the software and I don't know how but my PC was back to its normal behaviour giving me no trouble at all. I was so happy.

I think this just a normal thing to happen when you use 2 great products that have their own brand images, requirements and so on. In my case windows and apple and in many other instances this could be like android apps won't work that well with mobile phones of another kind even when they seem to be compatible. I being a new user had to learn from experience.

This is probably true of hardware as well especially with earphones and cameras, may be even hard drives and graphics cards and so on. There is no one correct choice but comfort of having your device function in a normal, comfortable way is the best solution. Otherwise you may be stuck with great software or product and an improperly functioning device

If you are an old hand you are lucky and will be able to handle this easily. New users have to learn by experience.