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Bleeding Cool Is The Most Influential Comics Blog In The World

No of course it isn't. But for some reason, Technorati thinks it is. Bleeding Cool seems to alternate with Splashpage@MTV with an occasional appearance by CBR's Robot6 for top spot on their blog-measuring system for the Comics category. Bleeding Cool is also the 12th in Entertainment and 106th out of all blogs and news sites of all. Which is clearly nonsense. I can't explain it, we're not trying to game the system or anything, it's just happened.

And that's just blogs. Truth is, out of all the blogs its probably AOL's Comics Alliance that should take it. And sites overall, it's probably CBR. But with Comics Alliance claiming again they're the no 1 comics site in the US, I thought it might be at least looking at the stats.

This is the last month in Alexa which, as with most measuring systems, is measured by software installed on people's PCs.

Which basically has CBR out ahead and Newsarama, Bleeding Cool and Comic Alliance fighting amongst ourselves. Compete.com which uses a mix of toolbar and internet provider data has some fun stats for the month.

I love some of those search terms.

Comics Alliance cites ComScore for the no-1-in-the-US claim. ComScore's data isn't publically available that I can see, but it draws data through a combination of installed survey software and tracking codes hosted by websites. And it seems that while a number of other sites give Comics Alliance a massive spike for a day or two in late January, it wasn't enough to make it number one for the month, and nothing like it has happened since.

So how have things changed in February from ComScore? Whose the number one this month? I had money on it, I'd put it on CBR.

For now of course. As you can see, Bleeding Cool stats at Compete have jumped 500% in a year. Of course, they have The Beat jumping 3000%, so on that basis, Heidi MacDonald could pwn all our asses by San Diego.

There are lies, there are damn lies and there are statistics. Until all the sites hand over all our actual traffic data, which these monitoring sites only ever see a fraction of, it'll never work. And that will never happen. If, of course it actually mattered, and anyone cares…

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