I question his claim about being in the top 40,000. He's currently sitting at 198,819 which is still excellent. I'd like to see this site get there someday. I'll be sorry to see him go, but I expect he got what he wanted otherwise he would not have sold it.
i saw that claim, too, and looked it up at alexa.com out of curiousity. (There's just something challenging about when people claim something is the best or the only one or that the story they got from a friend of a friend is the absolute truth that makes ya want to fact-check 'em.)
It's got to be absolute fabrication. Current rank: 199,000th. Looking back on the past 2 years worth of data you can see, it doesn't register within the top 100,000 EVER other than two days in early july (around 10th and 11th) when it spiked at around 60,000 for no apparent reason (michael jackson?), then returned to obscurity. Never at or near 40,000 as claimed.
compare it with the region's real TV, radio and newspaper sites and you see that many are in that 40,000 to 70,000th range
consistently based on their appeal, not just on a fluke day or two when they suckered in visitors by playing with keywords in copy-and-paste national stories.
other alexa stats also show the average News Network visitor looks at 1 page, stays 30 seconds, and 90% of them got there through a search engine... apparently by accidental search result. Yeah, there's a great demographic to sell.
the vivid imagination also seems to extend to the new "owner", a company and town combo that don't register on any search.
Still, i miss the site for the daily amusement of how badly someone can misspell a word or how gutsy someone can be to grab a magazine's years-old interview with a celeb, change a reference or two, and call it an exclusive phone interview given while the celeb was in pittsburgh or youngstown.
Meanwhile, anyone hear anything new on the shooting in greenville?
