Archive for June, 2008

Adware, Spyware, and Computer Virus

Spyware, basically is software that does not harm your computer. Spyware records various types of sites you visit, in order to be used by the advertisers to send you unwanted pop-ups and emails. Spyware, usually greatly avoided. They have separate executable program, allow them to scan files on your hard disks and the other applications you use. They’ll send the information to the spywares author, then they use this information for advertising and marketing. The worst part is, they even sell this information to other parties. (more…)

Alexa Rank For Your Website

Alexa Rank, basically is different with Google PageRank. It ranks websites based on the traffics to the website. Alexa’s traffic rankings are based on usage pattern of the Alexa Toolbar user over 3 month period. Alexa Ranking vary from 1 to 1,000,000,000. All websites is included in the Alexa Rank, it means that the scale on your Alexa ranking is changing, in relation to other websites on the Internet. For the top 100,000 sites measured, Alexa will also display traffic details as a percentage of the traffic measured.

Alexa’s traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users over a rolling 3 month period. It means rankings are not accumulated. In case a web site got lots of Alexa Visitors last 3 months but not get any of them next 3 months, the Alexa Rank goes down.

Sometimes, Alexa Rank is very important if you are selling reviews or adverts in your site. The advertisers and advertising services use Alexa Rank to determine your site worth.

The more people that come to your site the better. More traffic will drive up your Alexa rank.