Case Study Shows that Authority Sites Rank in Top 5% in Alexa

Summary:If you have tried all the SEO tactics and only
received mediocre rankings, it is time for you to shift
your attention from web promotion to producing quality
research and content. This study shows that seasoned
Authority Sites rank in top 5% of Alexa.

What is An Authority Site?

Dictionary.com defines "Authority" as follows:

Authority: Au-thor-i-ty [uh-thawr-i-tee] - noun:
1. An accepted source of expert information or advice: a
noted authority on birds; a reference book often cited as
an authority.
2. Power to influence or persuade resulting from knowledge
or experience: political observers who acquire authority
with age.

In internet terminology, an Authority Site is one that has
a large empire of high-ranking pages linking back to it.
Well-known examples include About.com, Wikipedia.org, and
so on. These are sites that others look to (and link to)
as experts in the field.

In this study, "Authority Site" simply refers to any site
that has been promoted with Authority Site Tools available
from Jack Humphrey.

Preliminary Study of 56 Randomly Selected Authority Sites

This study started by randomly selecting 56 sites that are
being promoted with Authority Site tools. On average, these
sites ranked better than 87% of all other sites monitored
by Alexa.

A Look at Seasoned Authority Sites

One problem with the preliminary study is that Alexa uses
three months of data to calculate its rankings. However,
many of the sites listed in the random sample were only a
few weeks or months old. So even though weekly Alexa
statistics indicated that these sites were ranking
extremely high, the three month Alexa ranking was lower. To
adjust for this problem, the original list of 56 sites was
examined to see how many months of archived blogs existed
for each site. Then, only sites that contained over 4
months of blog archives were analyzed. These authority
sites (on average) were found to rank in the top 5% on
Alexa.

Public Verification of the Results

Note: If you are not familiar with Alexa, please visit
www.alexa.com and go to the traffic rankings section. Enter
the url for any web site, and it will show where that site
ranks within the 11.2 million sites that Alexa tracks. It
will also provide a graph that shows a historical picture
of traffic to that web site. Please use Alexa to verify the
results of this study for yourself by looking up the
traffic rankings for any sites that interest you or for any
of the 56 randomly selected Authority sites listed below.
The statistics were collected on June 25, 2007.

Authority Site URL................................ Alexa
Rank........ Archived Months

http://addictionrecoverybasics.com
.............135,505............... 6

http://barpubchat.com
...............................1,511,568............. 2

http://blog.esalesguru.com .........................
205,676.............. 8

http://bugdugle.com
.....................................189,845..............1

http://coincollectinginsider.com
...................3,819,470.............1

http://cruise.every1loves2travel.com
................292,408.............9

http://didyousmellthat.com
..............................174,431............2

http://e-businessadvantage.com
...................1,682,034.............1

http://fearlessdreams.com
...........................1,003,899...........12

http://fitnessblackbook.com
...........................2,203,895 ..........1

http://forexlearnguard.com
............................1,798,145............1

http://newpsychicreading.com
......................1,825,970.............1

http://niche-newsreels.com
...........................1,578,478............1

http://onlinesecurityauthority.com/
.....................354,392.........12

http://sayno2odor.com
....................................5,884,207...........1

http://sexandgaming.com
................................3,600,742...........1

http://shoppingcart.instantestore.com
..................72,462..........5

http://trafficmasters2007.com

...........................592,003..........4

http://visalusblog.com
......................................3,012,861..........2

http://www.abundancehighway.com
.............1,639,877..........7

http://www.arkanimals.com
...........................1,274,297...........0

http://bestshowticketslasvegas.com
.................271,201...........0

http://www.bigmarketingonline.com
..................747,425...........0

http://www.blog.marinerblue.com
.....................838,222.......... 3

http://www.cheatcatcher.com
.......................2,206,694...........4

http://completediabetesinformation.com
.............256,895...........5

http://consumermortgagereports.com
.............1,123,968...........4

http://www.copywriting.com
.............................266,284..........0

http://www.dreambodynow.com
.....................298,349............8

http://www.empowersu.com
........................2,324,067............0

http://www.every1loves2travel.com
...............292,408...........10

http://www.gojdhl.com
....................................1,128,887..........3

http://www.homemusicrecording.com
................604,644.........4

http://www.hotexercise.com
...............................111,673.......10

http://internet-home-business-blog.com
............1,273,082.........2

http://www.jackhumphrey.com
.............................23,103........18

http://www.joyofcamping.com
...........................245,569...........2

http://www.lawfuel.com/

..................................233,616...........0

http://www.lawofattractionsimplified.com
.........259,634...........3

http://www.marriagesite.info
..........................1,891,783...........5

http://www.medcarehealth.com
......................2,869,639..........2

http://www.mywealthpuzzle.com
....................5,419,224.........4

http://www.mywritingblog.com
........................1,137,527.......20

http://www.neutralexistence.com
......................529,187.........4

http://www.onlineprofithome.com
...................1,316,275..........0

http://www.simplyantiaging.com/
........................279,153........9

http://www.socialanxietycrusher.com
.............4,823,082........1

http://www.successinspired.com

......................444,016........4

http://www.theassociatereference.com
.............193,280........9

http://www.the-football-nut.com ..................
865,654..............0

http://www.the-golf-nut.com
.........................455,044..............1

http://www.thelovebunch.com/
..................2,602,671..............2

http://www.thevideowebsitewizard.com
........715,796...........3

http://www.theweddingwizards.com/
............931,021............7

http://www.tobe-healthy.com
.........................345,167.............. 0

http://www.workfromhomegroup.com
............542,008..............3

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Wade Harvey is the author of http://idealprogrammer.com

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