I started to pay closer attention to my statistics on both of my main blogs – DatCurious.com and DatMoney.com – and the numbers don’t match up, especially with sites like Alexa.com and Compete.com.

I know a lot of people don’t rely on Alexa and Compete, but sadly, we probably all still go there just to see what they rate us in their traffic rank; better yet, a lot of sites use Alexa or Compete to determine how much traffic a site is getting – though, the numbers are deceiving.

So Jay, the numbers don’t match up? Obviously not, or there would be no purpose of this post .;-) But I hope I’m not the only one either.

See, the good part about having two different blogs is you get to compare the stats to each other. And oddly enough, the blog that gets more traffic (more than twice as much and on some occasions three times as much) ranks worse in both Alexa and Compete.

How in the hell does that work? I have no idea, but I took screen shots a couple days ago and you guys be the judge. The first is DatCurious stats…

And next is DatMoney stats…

I understand the 3-month stats, they are reasonable especially the fact that DatCurious is two months older than DatMoney, but everything else, I don’t get.

I took that picture two days ago so the stats should reflect December 28th or 29th. On DatCurious, I received 400 then 750 uniques between the two days while DatMoney only received slightly more than 200 on each of those days.

I didn’t bother taking screen shots of Compete because it was basically stating the same thing as Alexa. I mean, we all know Alexa and Compete are almost equivalent to Google Pagerank, it doesn’t really mean much, but yet, people rely heavily on them and a lot of us get screwed over it.

Luckily, at least one of my blogs are given pretty good stats with them… unfortunately, it’s the wrong site but I’ll take what I can get!

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Also, you get exposure from their “Random Pages” and “New RSS Feed Pages.”

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Sounds easy enough to me!

When it comes to making money online, age has no restrictions on it. I know, like the late Aaliyah once said “age is nothing but a number” and luckily, we are not dating then it probably would be! But no matter how young you are or how old how wise, making money from blogging is for everyone!

I’m in my mid-20’s but I recently started blogging a few months ago (though, I helped manage another site for well over a year). I’ve learned a lot and I slowly, but surely, started making money. I mean, definitely not enough to quit my day job or anything… yet, but at least I’m making something.

But during my months of blogging, I must have run across thousands of blogs enough blogs to see that there are thousands who make enough money to do that as their day job.

In the beginning, I saw a lot of stay-at-home mothers who blog and make a pretty good living off that but more recent, I’ve been seeing a lot of younger bloggers making just as much. And when I say “younger” I mean in their early teens.

Matter of fact, the youngest blogger I seen (who actually revealed their age – because it’s part of their marketing scheme) was 14-years-old. If I’m not mistaken, this same individual was showing off thousands of dollars they made within the past month or two.

Freakin’ 14-years-old?! I think I was only making a few dollars pitching quarters at school when I was that age!

But this is the generation of technology, so this shouldn’t be unexpected.

And on the other hand, I have met a lot of older wiser bloggers that have years and years of experience and make plenty of money from blogging.

Basically what I’m getting at; if you want to make money from blogging, age is nothing but a number, though, you do need patience.

But hopefully not TOO much patience because if you started when you were in your teens and now you’re almost retired, I’m pretty sure blogging just wasn’t for you.

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So, apparently my post got deleted for whatever reason at blogcatalog so I’m going to write it here. To start the New Year, I’ve decided to give some link love to EVERYONE that wants some help with linkbacks, technorati ratings, pagerank, etc.

There’s a catch, right? Not really. Again, I was going to promote this on blogcatalog but my post got deleted so you guys will have to leave your name, site name and site URL as a comment on THIS post.

The whole purpose for this is to give back to the blogging community, help out with some pageranks, technorati ratings, etc. But more importantly, I just want to be able to meet some brand new bloggers, check out peoples sites… simple as that. No catch…

I will be writing a post within the next few weeks just simply giving some link love to anyone that wants it. That’s it. Just as simple as that!

So, what are you waiting for, just leave a comment with your blog URL!

Update: Please tell EVERYONE you know that may want some linkbacks!