I am amazed on stats showing CC's popularity.

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<p>As an avid marketer and researcher, I decided to compare popularity of various forums (including CC) based on their traffic. CC is more popular than I thought, according to Alexa rankings: </p>

<p><a href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=talk.collegeconfidential.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=talk.collegeconfidential.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Rank: 9,765 (note, thats out of billions of sites)</p>

<p>Three cheers for CC :)</p>

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<p>Oh cc I'm so proud of you! You're growing up!</p>

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<p>CC is like top 1% of all websites! Celebrian, I guess you made that possible with your 9,867 posts :) j/k</p>

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<p>C'mon guys, where's your CC pride? :(</p>

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<p><em>does a cartwheel</em></p>

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<p>Does anyone actually ever go on the main site?</p>

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<p>probably not, it simply isn't as useful as the disussion section</p>

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<p>Rank went down today to 12,000 :(</p>

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<p>Alexa rankings change drastically every day. Nothing to get depressed about.</p>

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<p>Joev, what makes Alexa credible?</p>

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<p>I found this article explaining it
<a href="http://www.the-home-grown-biz-advocate.com/12in13.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.the-home-grown-biz-advocate.com/12in13.htm&lt;/a>
There are numerous articles on the Net on how to artificially increase your Alexa rating, so its not that credible. Basically something that used to be used by techies, but then became mainstream, so now its lost credibility.</p>

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<p>Joev, is it possible to artificially increase PR rankings as well?</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.articlepr.com/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.articlepr.com/&lt;/a>
That is one of the many sites I found that promise to do it. I didn't take the time to find if it costs money. (I am pretty sure it does) One article said to take the time to make up a screen saver and upload it to one of the big free download sites (tucows, download.com, etc) with your website imbedded in it, and go from there. Noone seems to offer free help however.</p>

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<p>Alexa ratings are somewhat credible in the top numbers (i.e. top 50)... but others.. it's basically.. bologna</p>

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<p>I bet the ranking would go really high on days like April 1/ May 31</p>

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<p>Days like Dec. 22, and Jan 28, and other (similiar dates) must be off the chart.</p>

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<p>Now, you know the following was inevitable and with a tool like Alexa it was just irresistable. The methodology is unquestionable since it depends solely on the college's internet site popularity. So even though it can be skewed by student use at huge colleges, it is undoubtedly as scientifically valid as USNews. Thus, it should become the preferred method of choosing a college by anal-minded high school students who base their choices on rankings. Moreover, since the numbers constantly change, the prestige-conscious applicant can have the pleasure of checking daily to see what moves have happened that could affect his choice of where to apply. So here it is, the top 30 colleges by their Alexa rating:</p>

<ol>
<li> MIT 845</li>
<li> Harvard 938</li>
<li> Stanford 944</li>
<li> Berkeley 947</li>
<li> Texas 1204</li>
<li> Univ. of Washington 1212 </li>
<li> Illinois 1287</li>
<li> Michigan 1349</li>
<li> Penn State 1460</li>
<li>Cornell 1487</li>
<li>Penn 1539</li>
<li>Columbia 1541</li>
<li>NYU 1735</li>
<li>UCLA 1748</li>
<li>Wisconsin 1786</li>
<li>Virginia 1968</li>
<li>Florida 2037</li>
<li>Minnesota 2139</li>
<li>USC 2586</li>
<li>Ohio State 2589</li>
<li>Univ. of Chicago 2699</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon 2834</li>
<li>UC San Diego 2844</li>
<li>Purdue 2850</li>
<li>Michigan State 2886</li>
<li>Maryland 2908</li>
<li>Yale 3095</li>
<li>Arizona 3557</li>
<li>North Carolina 3573</li>
<li>Princeton 3707</li>
</ol>

<p>Among conferences, the Big Ten rules with 8 in the top 30. Duke (3829), Brown (7092), Dartmouth (12,864), Caltech (8312), Georgetown (6125), Johns Hopkins (3819), Northwestern (4577), Wash U. St. Louis (6381), Rice (9211), Emory (7341), Notre Dame (6897), Vanderbilt (7183), Tufts (6819), and Wake Forest (24,155) just can't cut the mustard despite their top 30 ranking in USNews. So those thinking of applying to any of those bottom feeders should tear up your applications immediately and go where real prestige awaits you in the Alexa Top 30.</p>

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<p>Geez, 16,207. We dropped a lot again. :(</p>

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<p>^ the 9999th post. we are all excited....:happy:</p>

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<p>no.. cafe posts dont count dear</p>

<p>she spent her 9999th post saying smething about loving sararoh</p>