Ask Not What RTH Can Do For You

This was originally posted on 9/18/08.

In the months following the post we actually broke the 200,000 barrier only to drop back to 325,133 as I type. During this time our monthly visitors have gone up and up. The only explanation is that other sites have more visitors that use this dang ratings bar…

It’s been just about 2 years since the idea of the Rock Town Hall blog was first discussed. 1/12/09 will be the official 2 year celebration of the blog’s launch.

At the time of launch, RTH’s web rankings were in the high 7 millions. As I type this, our world wide web ranking is 454,276. What started out as a creative outlet and a means to reconnect a friendship has humbly taken off to a degree much higher than we had ever imagined.

And now we want to see how far we can bum rush the show!

The web ranker of the day is Alexa. It is an Amazon project and as flawed as it is in determining web popularity it is the currency of the day. It works like a Nielsen box. It counts hits on sites from browsers that have their “box” installed.

It is called the Alexa Toolbar and the more of us here at Rock Town Hall that install it, the more our ratings will increase.

I have had it installed for over a year and Mr. Moderator and others have had it installed for several months. No one has had any issues with it. Once installed it gets tucked into the lower right corner of your browser and looks like this:

Then you can see, and improve, the rank of every site you go to.

I understand that some of you might have big-brother issues and that’s cool. But sometimes to stick it to the man, you have to use the man’s own tools.

So this is a call to arms Townspeople. If you’re interested in participating in this mission go to http://www.alexa.com/site/download and follow the directions.