Your responses have not been edited and none have been deleted to date. We are ranking on traffic using data provided by Alexa, and we make no claims above or beyond this.

Unless you have another point to make however I believe this may have run its course.

My email address is sam@renewableenergyjobs.com in case you wish to email me directly with any additional points / suggestions.

Thanks again.

Sam

But it’s hard to continue this discussion any further, when some of the discussion has been moderated out (dispite containing nothing offensive or objectionable).

Where do we go from here?

It is unlikely that Alexa’s data is perfect but it is, publicly available and widely considered a valuable, respected and valid source of traffic data (and I know of no better source)

This is the same for all sites. Many other sites have other larger sites that feed them traffic or that they are associated with. We are only interested in job seeker traffic and therefore only track traffic from stand alone job sites and sites that are clearly and primarily a job site. It is then for readers to use the data as they see fit and to suit their needs. Users only interested in Canada for example many ignore all listing bar those focusing on the Canadian market, they may be interested in Global sites (or not), the decision is theirs, the geographical focus is listed and how much weight a user puts on that data is entirely up to them.

I am not entirely sure how this data can be misused but I assure you are intentions are simply to provide some quantitative data on traffic numbers within a very young corner of the recruitment industry with very little high quality data available.

Sam, I assume you’re publishing this because you genuinely care about renewable energy. If so, please reconsider your methodology or my suggestion from last month to simply list geographically, rather than a monthly horse-race. Otherwise you risk doing a sad disservice to everyone who works for green energy and a green economy.

- Peter

PlanetFriendly would not qualify for entry into our league table as it does not meet our criteria as published with each edition of the table (it is not a job site, it is rather a site linking to a job site and also covers property, events, volunteer opportunities etc).

The two domains you own appear distinct . We are not collecting and aggregating traffic data for all the sites owned by webmaster, only job sites which meet our criteria, as your domains are distinct and Alexa is collecting data on all traffic routed via your job site regardless of origin (PlanetFriendly, Google, wherever) it seems that that the data is relevant.

Kind regards,
Sam

- Peter

Thanks for your response — you’re probably right that most of the listings are okay. Ours is an exception because the domain you’ve measured is not our primary domain.

Alexa actually ranks us 259,840 — not 1,342,360 as shown in your list. Our main URL is Planetfriendly.net, which is where all but one page (GoodWork’s homepage) resides. If you go to either URL you will see what I mean. There are historical reasons for this, unfortunately it would take a lot of work to redesign.

My apologies that I didn’t figure this out earlier!

- Peter Blanchard

Thank you for your comment.
I am sure there are many website owners who believe there site should be higher.
The methodology used by Alexa is generally considered reliable. I can’t think of any reason the sites you mentioned should perform any better or worse than any other site listed as part of this process other than because they have more or less traffic.
The methodology used for each is the same as are the user groups, the results have been consistent since we started publishing the league table some months ago.

Thanks again.
Sam

- Peter Blanchard

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GoodWork Canada
Canada’s Green Job Site Since 2001
http://www.GoodWorkCanada.ca