Archive for: alexa

Google is an Absolute Internet Behemoth

Pingdom has put together a great article that outlines how big Google actually is. Most people dont actually understand how large Google is online, but here is a quick list of the Google owned sites that are inside the top 100 worldwide according to Alexa.

Site	Name	Rank
Google.com	Google	1
Youtube.com	YouTube	3
Blogger.com	Blogger	5
Google.co.in	Google India	14
Google.com.hk	Google Hong Kong	17
Google.de	Google Germany	19
Google.co.uk	Google UK	22
Google.co.jp	Google Japan	25
Google.fr	Google France	27
Google.com.br	Google Brazil	29
Google.it	Google Italy	34
Google.es	Google Spain	39
Google.ru	Google Russia	44
Google.ca	Google Canada	52
Google.co.id	Google Indonesia	67
Google.com.mx	Google Mexico	75
Google.com.tr	Google Turkey	80
Google.com.au	Google Australia	85
Orkut.com.br	Orkut Brazil	86
Google.pl	Google Poland	89
Orkut.com	Orkut	92

Check out the rest of the article here.

Monitoring your Search Engines Positions

If you are a geek blogger like me, you would know that the having a good ranking within the most important search engines it is a big deal if you are trying to promote your blog. KPMRS (Keyword Position Monitoring Report Service) can help you with that by monitoring constantly the page rank you have with Google, Yahoo and Bing.

How to use it is very simple, you don’t even have to be registered to receive any result, you can query and get some instant results about your site and a special keyword. The free registration can also give you: Email Alerts (when position changes or when a competitor has passed you); weekly reports; and monitor for Google’s Page Rank and Alexa.

Here’s a query about my blog with a keyword that I know I have a good ranking about it:

It is pretty cool to have these results and see the differences between the search engines; and of course will be very helpful to you if you are setting up your business to evaluate the status of popularity.