BBC News Search: mortgage

HPtestmapdabble

Google - commercial property blogs and news

Nestoria (not via widgetbox this time)

Widgetbox (again)

TW10 (Richmond) resi from Nestoria - direct rss

Housing news from the BBC

Property roundup

Saturday, 21 April 2007

Until I can figure...

...what happened to my blogroll I'll post these links here.

London Residential snippets

London office gossip

Monday, 12 March 2007

Alexa - high watermark?

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.

Adsense update

Now getting relevant ads on the blog - commercial property, business lets, commercial property investing - all that sort of thing is coming up nicely.

The banner isn't very prominent, and this isn't about money, but it will be interesting to see what sort of CTR the ads will generate, if any...

Sunday, 11 March 2007

Technorati

I've claimed this blog via Technorati and was interested to see that it has a rather more realistic ranking there, as follows:

Rank: 2,763,138 (No blogs link here yet)

However I am not sure how the link-counters work: there is a link to this blog on another established blogspot blog. However it isn't in the body of any posts on that blog, just on the blogroll...

In the course of doing this I have also embedded a Technorati search box into the blog. I shall follow up and add the Technorati rank to the list of monitored metrics.

Alexa ranking, indexing update

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.