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Alexa Rankings

Alexa Rankings
Alexa Rankings

Alexa Rankings

Almost from the day I went online in 1996, or perhaps a few years after that, I discovered Alexa, which was a tool for ranking the popularity of websites. In those days, a high Alexa ranking was de rigeur and, so, highly sought after.

I have sort of forgotten about my sites’ Alexa Rankings over the last decade, but yesterday, it crossed my mind to check that of my main website, this one, Megan Publishing Services.

I was surprised at what I found. Alexa seems to have become part of the Amazon Empire.

Is that true?

If so, the fit does not spring readily to mind. However, that’s none of my business, but I couldn’t find my old, decade-old Alexa account, and they wanted $149 to either re-establish it or set a new one up.

I don’t know, but none of that seems right to me. Have I got the right firm?

Surely, no-one pays for listings any more?

Alexa tells you wherever your site ranks amongst the competition, but only if it is within the top 100,000 on the World-wide Web! So, it’s relevance is only to those top 100k sites and those who aspire to unseat them, which is certainly not many of us who just want to earn a crust…. or at most the mortgage or a supplementary income.

If Alexa’s new raison d’etre is to help businesses get noticed, then they seem to be angling for the larger companies, because I can’t see how they can make me glad that I had spent all that money on them 🙁

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All the best,

Owen

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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.

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