I'm not going to post these every day from now on, largely because I suspect that at the end of seven days visiting my own blog fairly relentlessly, this is as good as it gets - unless it somehow attracts an audience.
However, the 1-week Alexa rating is up again - to 258,586.
The official three-month average figure has been updated again, adjusted up to 1,936,670.
Meanwhile the one-week average, which is clearly on a daily refresh, has now reached 288,328.
If you haven't already guessed, I have the Alexa toolbar installed on the machine that I use most often.
Alexa's rank is based on "a combined measure of page views and users". Google analytics (which I installed only on Tuesday, so it's short a couple of days in the analysis) shows 69 visits and 131 page views. That's enough to get the site into the top 300k, apparently. Most of those will I think be me. Google analytics shows a number of entries from elsewhere, but I can't help wondering whether some of those are to do with the locations of the third party site tools that I have been examining the site with (for example, spider simulators etc).
Something that will not surprise seasoned Google-watchers is that the home page for the blog, having been in the index yesterday with a cache date of 8 March, has disappeared again, but I'm glad to say that the site hasn't been totally removed - a single previous post about the BBC is still coming up (as the only entry) on a Google site: search.
If one spends any time at the forums where they worry about this sort of thing, such as WebmasterWorld, one sees endless variations on the "where did my new site go?" posts from concerned site builders and owners. What tends to happen is that unless the site is a really horrible spamsite, the pages come back into the index reasonably quickly.
I've been getting some non-property-related ads coming through via Adsense. In fact I haven't yet had any property-related ads.
This is due I think to the kind of material that has been coming through at the top of the blog via the BBC news feed based on the incidence of the word "property".
I tried creating feeds based on a couple of more specific searches - "commercial property" and "real estate". Running the searches on the BBC site, with the quotes, worked to find the exact phrases within the text. However when attempting to create an RSS feed based on that search (which replaced the quotes in the string with %22), it returns all stories with either word in it.
For the time being therefore I have replaced the (too wide) "property" search with a news feed based on the word "mortgage".
NB Alexa 1-week rating is up again to 316,984. It must be updated every day.
According to their webmaster tools, pages from this site has now been included in Google's index. First cache date was 8 March. Three pages were included: the main page and two somewhat odd ones: http://property-commercial.blogspot.com/search/label/Alexa and http://property-commercial.blogspot.com/search/label/blogs.
None of the individual post pages is yet indexed. The two odd ones I suspect have been included by virtue of links appearing on some Technorati pages.
The Alexa 1-week rating has risen again to 453,054. This seems to be updated more often than I would have thought.
It seems that today is Alexa ranking update day!
The official 3-month average has risen to 4,454,217 - and the one-week average is up to 744,310.
So over the past week this site has risen to sit comfortably inside the top million sites...
PS I've removed the widgetbox Nestoria plugin for now; I was getting weird messages and the page never seemed to stop loading. Going to come back to Nestoria via their own API. Incidentally doing this has stopped the loading problem that I had.
The 3-month average hasn't changed (not sure how often it changes - monthly?) and that's still the number displaying in the Alexa toolbar, but the 1-week average is now 1,246,007.
