Calling All Tea Bloggers!

You specify in your page that “Monthly unique blog / website traffic has to be over 3,000 unique visitors a month (as measured by Compete or Alexa)”
I read in Alexa’s site http://www.alexa.com/faqs/?cat=4 that “Sites with relatively low measured traffic will not be accurately ranked by Alexa. We do not receive enough data from our sources to make rankings beyond 100,000 statistically meaningful. (However, on the flip side of that, the closer a site gets to #1, the more reliable its rank.) This means that, for example, the difference in traffic between a site ranked 1,000,000 and a site ranked 2,000,000 has low statistical significance.”
The Walker Tea Review, a well-known review blog, has an alexa rank of 3,111,614, which makes the alexa traffic data kind of useless.
Given that most tea bloggers are in worse shape than that, why not ask for google analytics data or the like? It’s far more accurate.

Good point Ricardo. Statics are a tricky game. Many of people do not go directly to a blog to read posts. I know that I personally do most of my reading through Google Reader which I believe would not be picked up by such services.

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