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Computer Blog - thebroadroom.net: Taking down Alexa.com site ranking boxes
Disclaimer: all of the following is purely from personal experience. TheBroadroom.Net urges you to use your own instincts,
common sense, and willingness to take risks when applying any of the information below.
Taking down Alexa.com site ranking boxes
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Friday, December 02, 2005
at 10:27 AM (Pacific)
Just a note here...we're removing our Alexa.com site ranking boxes.
The short version is that Alexa.com uses the Open Directory Project's subject directories. Thebroadroom.net was added to the ODP women's directory...after being deleted several times. I wrote the editor...who, apparently, owns one of the sites in the women's directory...as to why thebroadroom was not being added. Her response was that our site did not have enough content. (At the time, thebroadroom had a "mere" couple hundred pages on it.)
I wrote back pointing out that another site, containing three pages--I do not exaggerate, three pages--had just been added to that same directory. And that is how thebroadroom got added to that directory in the first place.
From that point forward, thebroadroom climbed into the top twenty websites in that directory. Since Alexa.com draws from it, thebroadroom stayed from #11 to #13 in the Alexa.com directory, for years.
Recently I was looking for a job. Since, for years, I'd been putting that my site was in the top twenty in the women's directory at Alexa.com, I checked back to make sure it was still there.
Well, I was mildly shocked to see that thebroadroom no longer existed in Alexa.com. I went back to the Open Directory Project to see what was going on, and discovered that the entire women's directory was gone (and my site along with it). Instead, there was a bunch of subdirectories, where, presumably, the sites that the ODP editor wanted to keep were safely ensconced.
On a side note, the ODP complaint form that I had used to get thebroadroom into the directory in the first place has long been taken down.
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