# 81 Is Ranking.com spyware?
Ranking.com in no way utilizes spyware for any of its services. The methodology we employ is a statistical sampling based on the user behavior of over 200,000 Internet users. These users carry a freeware toolbar that they utilize through a rigorous opt-in process, which means that they choose to help us gather information and have the ability to opt-out and disable the tool at any time. Furthermore, Ranking.com does not collect any personally identifiable information, which is what spyware intends to do. Ranking.com is a free service that measures only the overall popularity and essential metrics related to the most trafficked sites on the Web.
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# 93 Can I purchase the complete Ranking database?
Our cost is $495 for the
entire Ranking list delivered via the web by ftp access or a zipped excel
file. The file contains the domains and each rank, no website details are
included in this list. If you are interested in purchasing our Ranking list
please visit http://www.ranking.com/services/buy-website-ranking-data.htm
to begin the transaction.
Please note: users
are also able to reproduce the rankings at no charge for up to ten different
categories. For example, if you publish any of
the following categories below in your website, it will count as one category.
- The top 100
most visited or most popular real estate websites.
- The 50 most linked-to websites on the Internet.
- The top ten Las Vegas websites with the most traffic.
- The top ten most visited self-storage sites in Europe.
- The best and most popular websites in Chicago.
To
help reproduce top ten or top 100 lists for a group or industry, make sure to
use the ADVANCED feature within the report. This will allow the entire list of
URLs to be entered at once. The Ranking.com software will then return the
sites already ranked. To save time, save the URL list into a text file like MS
Word or Outlook Notes then paste the information into our tool on a monthly
basis to reproduce the updated ranking for your publication.
Requirements to Reproduce: You must acknowledge the origin of the
information as from Ranking.com with an embedded link to the http://www.Ranking.com
site. The following phrase must be included:
The marketing research data necessary to produce this report is provided
FREE by Ranking.com.™
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purchase, reproduce,
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# 52 How accurate is the data?
Ranking.com provides the relative popularity ranking of the top 900,000
websites on the Internet according to traffic metrics such as the number of
links pointing to the site and the websites category rank. This relative
popularity ranking is calculated by measuring the online behavior of over
200,000 web users who use our browser toolbar BrowserAccelerator.com.
Ranking.com does not intend to provide the actual statistics for each site.
Instead, it provides insight into how websites compare with each other according
to these popular metrics.
Our methodology is very similar to the AC Nielsen statistics. AC Nielsen tracks
a group of viewers to rate each program. The difference is that while AC Nielsen
only rates a few hundred choices, BrowserAccelerator is tracking over 200,000
web users who have millions of web pages to choose from to visit. Our rankings
are accurate in the higher positions but generally less accurate as you near the
900,000 site mark. We continue to increase the number of BrowserAccelerator
users by an average of 3,000 per month making our statistics more accurate each
day.
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# 96 How do you calculate links that point to a website?
We currently use Yahoo Site Explorer to determine the number of links pointing to site
included in the Ranking.com database. We encourage you to visit http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
and do a
search for http://yourwebsite.com
For example, to determine the number of links pointing to www.ranking.com, we
would conduct a search on http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ for:
http://ranking.com
Note: There is no www. before the domain name
At the date of the search (11/26/07), Ranking.com had 19,300 links.
Keywords: links, how to determine links pointing to site, how many links,
links update
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# 78 How do I generate the entire list starting with the #1-ranked website by Ranking.com?
Once you have entered the security code to obtain access to the rankings, choose the second option "View the complete list starting at ranking number: 1" to return site within the database.
Select 'GO' and the list of sites starting at #1 will be returned.
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# 53 What does Ranking.com consider unique visits, page views, visits and links?
Uniques: A unique visitor is one that visits a site at least once no matter how many times they return and is considered the most telling measure of a site's worth. The number of unique visitors listed by Ranking.com is not the actual number of unique vistiors that went to your website, but rather the number of BrowserAccelerator.com userse that went to your site in the analysis period. Tracking Web users enables us to develop our "relative" popularity ranking - a statistical determination of how your website compares to others according to unique visits.
Visit: A 'visit' is a trip to a website by an individual. If a visitor comes to your site (a unique visit) looking at various pages, one visit is generated. If they come back several hours later another visit is generated. The number of 'visits' listed by Ranking.com is not the actual number of visits that occurred at your website, but rather the number of 'visits' generated by BrowserAccelerator.com toolbar users. this data helps us produce a "relative" popularity ranking - a statistical determination of how your website compares to others according to the number of visits your site receives.
Page Views: Page views refer to the number of pages served to the user. If a visitor goes to ten pages, ten page views will be generated. The number of page views listed by Ranking.com is not the actual number of page views that occurred at your website, but rather number of page views generated by BrowserAccelerator.com toolbar users. Tracking the number of page views served to our users enables us to develop a "relative" popularity ranking - a statistical determination of how your website compares to others according to page view data.
Links: The amount of links on other websites on the Internet that point to a particular web site or online property. About 50% of the top ten search engines factor the number of links into their relevancy algorithms when they rank a web site. Increasing the number of links greatly improves a web site's search result positioning. The number of links listed by Ranking.com may not be the actual number of links pointing o your website, as our system only queries specific search engines. This data is gathered in order to develop your "relative" popularity ranking - the statistical determination of how your website compares to others according to the number of links pointing to your site.
All numbers shown for the above metrics are cumulative for the previous 6 months. Keep in mind that these are not the ACTUAL numbers for the website, but are based on visits from our sample group. We track 200,000+ surfers using our BrowserAccelerator toolbar.
Keywords: visits, unique visits, page views, links, data
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