{"id":2424,"date":"2004-04-16T04:21:50","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T18:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/16\/alexa-website-reviews\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:46:00","slug":"alexa-website-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/16\/alexa-website-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexa website reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8238,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect-home\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/redirect-home\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11252,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.a9.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210802075446\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.a9.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 14:58:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 04:17:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 04:17:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11253,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.alexa.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250226162322\\\/https:\\\/\\\/alexa.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 14:58:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 04:17:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 04:17:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11254,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00011DZEQ\\\/103-2792872-9098222?url=www.michaelhanscom.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00011DZEQ\\\/103-2792872-9098222?url=www.michaelhanscom.com&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11255,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/tg\\\/detail\\\/-\\\/B00011DZEQ\\\/ref=alx_dp_tr_1\\\/103-2792872-9098222?v=glance&amp;vi=traffic&amp;url=http:\\\/\\\/www.michaelhanscom.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/tg\\\/detail\\\/-\\\/B00011DZEQ\\\/ref=alx_dp_tr_1\\\/103-2792872-9098222?v=glance&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t notice this last night when I was poking around with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect-home\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon\">Amazon<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.a9.com\/\" title=\"A9\">A9<\/a> search engine, but Amazon has tied the search results into their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexa.com\/\" title=\"Alexa\">Alexa<\/a> website ranking tool with a little &#8220;Site Info&#8221; button at the tail end of search result. Part of what Alexa provides along with traffic ranking and site information is the ability to add reviews for the websites, in much the same way that people can post reviews of books, music, or anything else that Amazon sells.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00011DZEQ\/103-2792872-9098222?url=www.michaelhanscom.com\" title=\"michaelhanscom.com\/\">Interesting<\/a>. No reviews for me (not a surprise), but now that A9 is out and potentially sending more people towards the Alexa info pages, I may need to keep an eye out on that just to see if any pop up.<\/p>\n<p>What did amuse me while looking at the info that Alexa has for Eclecticism is their graph of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00011DZEQ\/ref=alx_dp_tr_1\/103-2792872-9098222?v=glance&amp;vi=traffic&amp;url=http:\/\/www.michaelhanscom.com\" title=\"Alexa traffic ranking for michaelhanscom.com\">traffic ranking<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2004\/04\/graphics\/eclecticismtraffic.png\" height=\"216\" width=\"379\" alt=\"Eclecticism traffic spike\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gee &#8212; can you tell when I got <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/twenty_thousand.html\" title=\"Twenty thousand percent?\">Slashdotted<\/a>? ;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Pick Up the Phone&#8221; by Swingerhead from the album <em>Swing This, Baby!<\/em> (1998, 3:07).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t notice this last night when I was poking around with Amazon&#8217;s A9 search engine, but Amazon has tied the search results into their Alexa website ranking tool with a little &#8216;Site Info&#8217; button at the tail end of search result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}