So I discovered Google’s Alexa service today (thank you Jenise…)… and I was rather thrilled (I think) to discover that this blog is in the top 13 million web sites in the entire world. I’m not really sure what that means, but hey, it sure beats the hell out of being in the top 14 million.
These numbers bring up an important topic.
Being such an active writer and promoter on the Web, I end up reading a lot of posts. And I have a complaint.
When you go to any public library, it’s clearly marked that one area is for small children, this entire room is devoted to young adult readers, and these how-to books over here are clearly marked as being “for beginners” or “for dummies.”
And when I sign up for dance classes, it clearly says on the flyer whether it’s for beginners, intermediate, or advanced dancers.
I would like there to be also some kind of similar ranking system for Internet articles so we know what kind of reader they are intended for.
I often find myself wasting a fair amount of time reading the first paragraph of articles about the speaking business, not to mention the publishing business, because it was not clearly stated that this article was geared for a beginner audience. If there was a number on the Google search or the twitter tweet telling me that, I would know to skip it.
I have no idea how such a ranking system could be instituted, but then that’s just one more reason why I don’t work at Google.
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