Way to go Byard!! Buggs & I will write you up a great review! I'll drink a double-Bailey's OTR tonight in honor of your achievement.
Hey, FantasyFlies is #5,066,895! I'm in the top 6 million!!! (Top 10%) Wow! Not bad considering there are over 65 million web sites out there. No reviews yet. Who wants to be the 1st to write a review for it? DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Byard Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 4:39 PM Subject: [VFB] Off-Topic...but I'm allowed...;^) > > Because I opened a disguised spam email today I discovered a site > that I was unaware of. It's impact on fly fishing is pretty much > non-existent but for me it was quite enlightening. It appears that > alexa.com tracks internet web traffic to specific web sites and ranks > their findings. I was amazed to discover that both the VFB and Line's > End ranked higher than flyshop.com (Fly Fisherman Mag). > > Statistics have always fascinated me...not that they've ever really > impacted upon my decisions...but they still do fascinate me...;^) > > From what I can determine the rankings are based upon daily visits to > websites. How do they figure this out? I ain't got a clue! Consider > that Google ranks #3. VFB ranks #829,963. Yep, that's a really big > number, but considering world demographics in regards to "fly > fishing", being at that position, especially when compared to similar > websites, really impressed me. Being ranked under 1 million of all > the gazillion websites out there seems like it should be a point of > celebration! > > Now a favor...they have a feature incorporated on their site that > allows reviews to be posted to Amazon. I haven't looked further to > see where they may show up...but no reviews have been posted for > either VFB or Line's End. Actually not many for others either. So the > favor is to ask a few of you kind folks to write a review for one or > both sites. Do be honest and unbiased. I'd do one myself, but I > suspect that I would not be able to follow either of those > criteria...<g> > > Link to VFB is > <http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=&url=virtualflybox.com> > > Link to Line's End is <http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=linesend.com> > > Just look for the link on the page that asks if you would like to > write a review for Amazon. > > Thanks in advance...byard
