10 Questions with Guy Kawasaki: How Compete competes with Alexa, comScore
Written by Jay Meattle (contact - e-mail) -- November 9th, 2007 | Recommend This
Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, Technorati 50 blogger, and a columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine. He was an Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. His job description at Apple was “to protect and preserve the Macintosh cult by doing whatever he had to do” — how cool is that?!
Guy is also the author of eight books including The Art of the Start (a must read).
A few weeks ago, Guy asked Stephen and myself 10 questions. We discussed how Compete competes with Alexa and Comscore, how Compete does what it does, site metrics, and Search Engine Optimization practices.
Enjoy! — Ten Questions with Compete (October 29, 2007)
The Questions (responses):
- What exactly does Compete do?
- What did your investors say when you started giving away your data for free?
- Do your stats include Macintosh users and Firefox users?
- How are your results different from Alexa and Comscore?
- Then should we all remove our Alexa bookmarks and replace them with Compete?
- Is SEO black magic and bull shiitake or can one increase traffic with a few changes to headers, keywords, etc?
- There’s often a 10x difference between my server logs and Google Analytics say is my traffic. What accounts for this?
- Then when people ask, do I give the log answer or the Google Analytics answer?
- Everyone else is lying, do I lie too or look less successful?
- What are the most common mistakes that companies make that yields sub-optimal traffic?
- Then what can I do to increase traffic at Truemors?
- In two years what will be the top five social networking sites (in order from largest to smallest)?
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November 10th, 2007 at 4:46 am
One question that should have been asked is:
How are the permissions attained from the 2 million users?
The answer could determine how representative they are to the U.S. Web users as a whole.
The act of giving permission could represent a different type of user.
November 12th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Attention! We actually do have your attention!
Quick (it’s all relative) post on this one - for about a year now, I’ve been tracking a Boston-area company called Compete, and have been lucky enough to have some great conversations, lunches and dinner with a solid handful or
February 27th, 2008 at 1:18 am
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