What a shame?

I am becoming a ‘ranking addict’. There is a good business in ranking business. A lot of companies are in this business, some are free, some are paid. I am not going to talk about the paid sites. This is because I dont have money to spulrge neither you have that kind of interest. So just limit ourselves with free sites.

Let us start with Alexa. I have its widget on my site. It helps me to publish my rankings to my visitors from a third party which has no interest in my site or against my site. Therefore third party sites can be a better judge. Alexa collects web browsing info from its toolbar downloaded on willing participants and widgets on individual sites. Alexa clearly says that the data about those wibesites which have low visit is unreliable. And all of the Bhojpuri websites belong to this class!

Many people are understandably not happy with Alexa’s numbers. But third-party traffic stats are inherently inaccurate, particularly for smaller sites, where the number of web users in any sample is too small to have a good margin of error.

Then there is Quantcast. This has an American bias as majority of websites cater to American audience. Quantcast does not have enough information about Bhojpuri websites. They are such a low visit group, notwithstanding individual claims of millions of pageviews!

Another ranker site is Compete. This too has an American bias, and I am not complaining! To directly quote it, “We do not have any data for anjoria.com, so these are rough estimates.” - compete.com

People is defined by Compete.com as, “People Counts are also known as unique visitors - they only count a person once no matter how many times they visit a site in a given month. People Counts are typically used to determine how popular a site is”

Taking this people count or uniques as a standard my website Anjoria has about 600 to 800 absolute unique visitors per month. I get these info from several sources and all of these are in the same range.

Another information I gather from Quantcast is about the Anjoria Addicts. They constitute about 30% of its vistors. Google Analytics says about 50% of Anjoria visitors are old regulars. This is a better judgement on the usefulness of Anjoria for its visitors. A low amount of addicts or old visitors will show that Anjoria has nothing to hold them, whereas a high percentage of old visitors will show that its growth has peaked, or new visitors are not recruited.

But then I think, what a shame that a language spoken in all the continents of the world, a rare feature, with millions of Bhojpuri speakers scattered all around the globe having thousands of personal computers has such a low interest in its websites. Let us do one thing to popularise our language, visit a website of your choice everyday, see what it has to offer, whether it is live one, a static one, or a dead one. Blog on the net about Bhojpuri. Start reading writting and speaking in Bhojpuri. We must keep Bhojpuri alive by regularly using it.

You may say that what a hypocrisy! I am writting all these things in English, and that is with a purpose. Many of Bhojpurihas living in foreign land have low or negligible exposure to Bhojpuri. I am trying to reach them, convince them, and provoke them in using Bhojpuri.

Re-edited on 29th Dec 2007 as per request of a website owner.

Tags: alexa, bhojpuri, compete, quantcast, ranking