Two days ago Twitter encountered some technical problems which caused people to lose followers. In some cases the number of followers where cut in half, in other cases almost all followers where lost.

The problem is solved now and all followers are restored. As you can see on the graph from TwitterCounter.com we’ve got almost all followers back:

In case you would like to follow us you can do so at twitter.com/xaviermedia or you can have a look at our chats at twitter.xaviermedia.com

Popularity: 47% [?]

I did a small comparisation of three of the best professional bloggers I know about: ShoeMoney.com, Problogger.net and JohnCow.com.

The funny thing is that all three of them had less then 50 000 visitors a year ago and now, at least two of them , got more then 200K visitors. This shows that it’s possible to build a popular blog in little more then a year if you’re good at what you do (i.e. writing in your blog and marketing your content).

The graph above is from Compete.com and shows that Problogger.net must be the most successful one of the three since his site has grown over 1600 % in one year! Lets just hope that the last months decrease is just something temporary due to summer or something .

Popularity: 51% [?]

Today when I checked the statistics at whois.xaviermedia.com I noticed that there are 4.8 billion new pages hosted on .com domain names. That’s almost as many pages there are on .org in total!!!!!

I’m not at all surpriced that .org is the second largest top level domain since they got Wikipedia.org and AboutUs.org hosting millions of pages. But I find it kind of surpricing that .edu is only found on 9th place and that .jp (Japan) is the third largest TLD if you count hosted pages.

Sweden (.se) used to be on 14th place, but is now found outside the top 15 on 19th place .

Popularity: 52% [?]

The search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN are indexing more and more pages at AboutUs.org. If you look at the data from Marketleap.com you’ll see that about 14 million pages have been spidered by the three big search engines just on the domain www.aboutus.org.

Breakdown per search engine:

• Yahoo!/ FAST/ AltaVista -  10,196,079 pages
• Google/ AOL/ HotBot - 3,910,000 pages
• MSN -  64,200 pages

Some of the pages have of course been indexed by all three search engines so I would guess that the total number of unique pages so far would be around 10 million, but that’s still impressive.

If we have a look at the historical perspective we’ll notice that the search engines found aboutus.org for real some time in 2007 when they found from less then a million pages up to 8 million pages.

So if you need the search engines to find your site then you should become a more active member in the aboutus.org community. If you need a kick-start to the basics of a Wiki, then checkout the Xavier Media blog.

Popularity: 94% [?]

Entrecard.com was launched in the end of 2007 and got more and more members and visitors. If you just look at the graph from Compete you’ll see that they’ve increased the number of visitors every month since the start.

Entrecard has been ever since the start about visiting pages and “dropping” your on the sites you visit, but now it looks like Entrecard will start punishing members for dropping. We know since before that if you drop to quickly you will get punished by removal of credits from your account, but now you may also get punished by dropping on certain pages. This is from the email sent to all Entrecard members:

Additionally, members dropping on “quick drop pages” may start receiving stiff credit penalties for every drop they do on quick drop pages, as it is not a visit to a blog and thus an illegal drop.

How do you as a dropper know if the site you drop your card on is not accepted within the Entrecard community? You can’t really for sure do that. Of course you can avoid dropping at the pages with just the Entrecard widget, but how do you know that the page you drop at got enough content to be accepted within the community? You can’t! Because of this I will for sure stop dropping at all sites to ensure that I don¨’t get punished.

Entrecard earlier this month announced that they wont accept religious organizations any more. All these changes to the TOS is fine with me, but they won’t give the users any chance to adapt to the changes i.e. they announce the changes just a few days before they are valid which means that members will get banned because they didn’t have time to adapt to the changes. This way Entrecard is instable like a dictatorship, the laws can change over night and what’s legal one day may be illegal the next without any chance of appeal. This will of course make the members tired and soon people will leave the sinking ship……

Another of Grahams projects is the MillionDollarWiki.com. If you don’t remember it I’m not exactly surprised since I can hardly remember it any more….. It’s anyway  a wiki where you pay $100 for a page you can later resell (you can by the way get a free page at the much bigger wiki AboutUs.org if you just register your own domain name). As soon as MillionDollarWiki.com got enough sign ups the traffic dropped a lot making your invested $100 almost worthless. Just take a look at the Compete graph for MillionDollarWiki.com:

Dictatorships that change the rules over night and the history with Grahams earlier projects show us that Entrecard will hardly last. I’m really surprised that if they are still as popular as they where in May in the end of 2009. They may still exist like Blogrush, but at the declining part of the traffic graphs…..

Popularity: 79% [?]

Here’s something that could grow into something really cool if it gets more developed and gets more features: Google Trends for websites. It’s a function to look up how much traffic a site gets and where they are coming from. Please note that it’s just estimates and not the full truth!

To get numbers on your graph you need to login (it took me a while to figure that out). Here’s an example graph:

Popularity: 68% [?]

I just checked the Alexa ratings for XavierMedia.com and noticed that we get 18.8% of our visitors from Nigeria (???). We’re ranked as 1199 in Nigeria which means that only 1198 sites are more popular then XavierMedia.com in Nigeria . Now to the big question how many Internet users are there in Nigeria?

BTW our Alexa ranking is 74,359 in total.

Popularity: 78% [?]

Do you use compete.com? If not, then you should start using it. Compete is like Alexa, a company that tries to guess how many visitors a site got and rank them based on traffic. I use both Alexa and Compete before I spend any money in advertising on a web site because that gives me a way of calculating how expensive or cheap the traffic may get. Of course it also depends on your ad, but I rather spend $100 on a medium trafficed web site where I may see some results, then $50 on a web site with no visitors at all

Compete is only showing the traffic from US at the moment which is kind of bad, since quality traffic is not only the traffic from US. Compete do not show the complete picture, but it gives you an idea of what kind of traffic you can expect.

If you have a look at the statistics for XavierMedia.com this is what it looks like:

We got a lot more visitors then this, but as I mentioned this is only the US traffic

Popularity: 92% [?]