Thanks, Lurking.

Ohhhh…so FSC-PASS has low traffic counts because they know how to hide their data from Alexa? Maybe mike is hiding his data and that’s why mharris analysis is so messed up cus it’s really different if we look through your eyes?

You’re right that we are both anonymous commenters…on a site where the owner allows us to spew whatever we like. I seriously wonder if someone dropped you a few times too many….these wild ass purple man on the moon theories and cross-post redirections are hysterical!

Plausible till you go to the home page where all the articles are presented in their entirety without clicking to finish article…even if you want to get nit-picky and point out those who must click on the article to read comments it is no way the same as a home page that gives teasers and requires a click to read content.

I’m dumber than a box of rocks when it comes to sites, traffic click through payments etc…but that simple concept didn’t escape notice.

You want to post the exact same graph with AVN and XBIZ? You claim with no evidence that they game the system/bump their numbers. Seems plausible. Seems just as plausible that you do as well.

Go for it. You’re an anonymous blog commenter. Say whatever you like. This is far from serious business. Yes, that stats are as Mike says. I theorized that there is some other explanation. The numbers “a few” site visits a day just don’t make sense to me. I’m not saying impossible, but it doesn’t seem right. In other words, I think sites must be able to “hide” their data from Alexa and the like in some way.

@mharris

I envy your ability to wrap all that up with references too so succinctly.

No not the PASS site…the TRAFFIC…based on your ability to spit out stuff about unique visitors etc with respect to this site I expected you to be able to apply that same knowledge/process to another site and offer insight.

“@erik
You’re the pro…can they have unreported traffic?”

As long as you keep assigning more to my comments the they say…I’m gonna point out your delusions.

Erik you may wanna stick to things you know about….remember how i said its easy to game alexa? it is and both avn and xbiz do it. Unique visits are rather meaningless in that respect because they were mislead to the site and then they leave. As any good Advertising person will tell you is that what really matters is repeat traffic and targeted traffic.

Um…. AVN and XBIZ have more than double Mike’s unique visitors. Nothing to do with clicking links.

Also, is Canadian viewing somehow more important? That was an odd stat.

“Oh…sorry, your pointed comments re site traffic indicated that you were knowledgeable in that area.”

About the PASS website? No, it didn’t. It indicated that there are sites easily accessible that track “site visits” and the like. None of that explains how a site gets “a few” hits a day. As I said, it seems Mike alone goes “a few” times to the site. That amount of visits to a site is crazy low.