Comments on: Improving the Power150 https://nakedpr.com/improving-the-power150/ Truth. Not Charm. Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:44:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: David Binkowski https://nakedpr.com/improving-the-power150/#comment-28 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:16:34 +0000 http://nakedpr.com/2007/12/17/improving-the-power150/#comment-28 Realistically the “Power 150” is somewhat of a joke because all of the metrics can be rigged and are only based on a limited number of metrics, all based on old school thinking — if the masses like it then it must be good, to which I say “Apply that logic to N’Sync, Milli Vanilli and Spice Girls.” 😛

Back in the day, when I worked as a webmonkey, I was told by our metrics guy that we should delete 1/3 of our site’s pages because they accounted for the least amount of traffic and wouldn’t be missed.

My rebuttal was “But what was the goal?”, meaning if I invited 20 physicians to an event via a form on the site and all 20 responded, then I met my goal — 20 out of 20. Sure, it only means 20 unique visitors, but success was 100%. My blog has regular readers from the top PR, advertising and Fortune 50 companies because I don’t want Joe Blow subscribing. Sure, it’s nice, but realistically what I blog about is of no interest to them — because that’s not the goal.

Me thinks your Power150 needs re-thinkin’.

]]> By: Todd And https://nakedpr.com/improving-the-power150/#comment-27 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:34:03 +0000 http://nakedpr.com/2007/12/17/improving-the-power150/#comment-27 This conversation has been very helpful, Jenn. Thank you. For the record, we decreased the weight of Alexa last week and are currently in the process of reviewing/testing other metrics.

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