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Re: JSH: Questioning world appeal
Posted:
Oct 3, 2010 6:09 PM
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On Oct 4, 2:43 am, JSH <jst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 2, 9:33 pm, MichaelW <ms...@tpg.com.au> wrote:
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> > On Oct 3, 4:25 am, JSH <jst...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > First step: what are the country counts for your websites?
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> > Isn't this the information you have refused to provide? One of the
> > reasons I don't trust your statements about the stats for your site is
> > that you have never actually provided them. How do we know you are not
> > making it all up?
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> I talk about country counts all the time. I would also give hit
> counts but they're rather small, and it gets tedious giving out all
> that info anyway.
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> For me the definitively odd thing has been the country counts.
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> I don't yet understand it, so I puzzle over it, which means I talk
> about it more.
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> As for what you believe that is up to you.
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> > Ditto the Google search results. If the hits on the page that comes up
> > in the search has high traffic then this backs up the importance of
> > the search result but if the traffic is near zero then the reverse is
> > implied.
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> Naively. Your comment indicates to me you've not had to deal with the
> problem at an enterprise level for an ongoing venture, though you may
> have and just found things work that way for your special case.
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> The Internet is relatively new and fortunes have been lost trying to
> figure out what statistical data is important or not.
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> Some sites with HUGE site traffic can have difficulty monetizing it,
> while others with comparatively little can be very profitable with a
> dedicated audience and certain products.
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> It's a trillion dollar question, getting stats right.
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> The Internet may not be new to you, but it's still relatively new to
> the human race.
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> We're still figuring out how to use it most effectively, and how to
> process the huge amounts of information it is now providing.
>
> James Harris
James,
I will not find it tedious at all! In fact I don't recall ever seeing
hit counts given by you.
So here's one I would like to see. You often quote "define
mathematical proof" which links through to a page of yours on blogspot
from July 2005. Please provide the hit count over the last three
months for this page. Hits from unique IP addresses would be preferred
since the same IP address coming multiple times will skew the stats. I
am happy to see the breakdown by country as well.
Since no-one is talking about making money I am will to take the risk
you talk about. The first step however is actually having the
information. After that we can discuss the best methodology for
interpretation.
Up to now you have not really provided the sort of information that
can be usefully interpreted. You challenged Joshua C to show his
skills at interpretation and I am happy to step up to this challenge
but I need real data. Statement like "I have hits from X countries" is
not a statistically significant data point!
Regards, Michael W.
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