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Originally Posted by areagirls
I'm not sure what you mean, all of 12Clicks sites seem to be hosted on separate domains?
ie: 12xamateur.com, 12xanal.com, etc ?
Mike
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fuzebox wasn't talking about that. He was referring to HOSTED GALLERIES being on the same domain as the parent site. A lot of sites moved their galleries to other domains years ago because all the traffic to the galleries would slow down the paysite itself. It was and is a great idea.
But these days with much faster internet speeds and greater bandwidth...not to mention kickass servers with much bigger processors, that isn't always needed.
For instance, I'm able to run the tour, members area, AND hosted galleries...and even run a live webcam show all from the same server without even coming close to nudging the needle on the CPU or my bandwidth pipe. Couldn't done that a few years ago, but technology moves forward.
What fuzebox is pointing out is that all the traffic going to the galleries gives a false impression of the websites popularity.
My view is that it gives a true impression of the websites popularity because whether it's a tour or a gallery it's all just advertising and branding in an attempt to get a person to the join page and afterwards a sale.
fuzebox is pointing out that a site (like claudia-marie.com that I own) that uses hosted galleries on the domain will have a higher alexa ranking than a site that uses a seperate server and domain for their galleries.
So he and I are seeing the advertising and/or branding from a differnent viewpoint and the alexa ratings from a different usefullness.
We both agree that the "compare" doesn't really hold water when comparing the apples and oranges that scenario brings to the table.
Though in all fairness, even tgp's can't be truly "compared" by Alexa.
Some pages, like SleazyDream are just that...a page with paid placement. Others like Freeones are huge beasts with thousands of pages. Others like my Grampland.Com have lots of pages and, in my case, a legal tube that is on a sub-domain. And I am unclear on whether Alexa sees a sub-domain as part of the domain itself.
So you can see that the differing websites all have different variables.
That's why the "compare" isn't really worth much except that it feels cool to say: "My ranking is higher than your ranking" lol
But the alexa info IS very useful if you just use it within the context of your own websites performance. But no, it might not be as "useful" for the people who are wondering if a particular website's advertising rates are "worth it" or not.
But then again...people used Sex Tracker for years to make that decision. And ~NEWSFLASH~ back in the day those stats might have been a little...shall we say "manipulated" at times.
So at least the Alexa stats are "honest" even if they aren't absolutley precise.