Power Ranger Empire - View Single Post - Removal of PRE from Power Ranger Topsites

**Dai Shi** · 04-30-2008, 03:59 PM

After doing some research into the software that Power Ranger Topsites runs on, I have come to find it unreliable in it's stats. People are able to falsley bump up the stats by repeatedly visiting it through the link provided by the webmaster on their website. It's no coincidence a few of the sites on there that do well, also have very few active guests and/members.

Some sites are using it as a guage of the popularity of their website and/or forum. The problem is, that can create a false impression of the popularity and activity of the site(s) listed. I've visited and tested this theory through PRE and found it to be true. All it takes are a few people to keep 'voting for' the site/forum in question by voting for the site, then closing out the browser and/or re-visiting the site and re-clicking on the button provided, to bump up the stats to in some cases ridiculously crazy levels.

So what I will be doing is withdrawing PRE from Power Ranger Topsites. As it's credibility is extremely poor. PRE was able to bump up so fast on that list with very very few people actually visiting it from PRE. That says something. And puts its credibility into question.

It was a nice idea at first. But as I have been looking into it the past few weeks I also believe it's possible spiders from google and elsewhere that may be following the link, are also falsely adding to it. Research I have done looking into Aardvark Topsites also shows that it is NOT cheat proof.

So, from this point forward I will be using Google Analytics for proper comparison.

04-30-2008, 03:59 PM	#1 (permalink)
Dai Shi Lord of Thunder My Mood: Thanks: 3 Thanked 56 Times in 41 Posts Friends: (29)	Removal of PRE from Power Ranger Topsites After doing some research into the software that Power Ranger Topsites runs on, I have come to find it unreliable in it's stats. People are able to falsley bump up the stats by repeatedly visiting it through the link provided by the webmaster on their website. It's no coincidence a few of the sites on there that do well, also have very few active guests and/members. Some sites are using it as a guage of the popularity of their website and/or forum. The problem is, that can create a false impression of the popularity and activity of the site(s) listed. I've visited and tested this theory through PRE and found it to be true. All it takes are a few people to keep 'voting for' the site/forum in question by voting for the site, then closing out the browser and/or re-visiting the site and re-clicking on the button provided, to bump up the stats to in some cases ridiculously crazy levels. So what I will be doing is withdrawing PRE from Power Ranger Topsites. As it's credibility is extremely poor. PRE was able to bump up so fast on that list with very very few people actually visiting it from PRE. That says something. And puts its credibility into question. It was a nice idea at first. But as I have been looking into it the past few weeks I also believe it's possible spiders from google and elsewhere that may be following the link, are also falsely adding to it. Research I have done looking into Aardvark Topsites also shows that it is NOT cheat proof. So, from this point forward I will be using Google Analytics for proper comparison.