I would not be surprised to find that the business of KS is seasonal. If you look at that chart it appears that the abrupt increase in traffic coincides with the reproductive cycle. I think it would be natural for business to die-off somewhat as the year progresses into winter and then pick up again in early summer. This could be proven if we could see a little bit more of the past.
That was a 2 year graph I posted. No, there is no seasonal effect to explain that sudden jump during May of 2003. Change in programming? Yes, probably. Very CREATIVE change in programming if you ask me. Jeffie went from an HTML based system to a database driven backend, which is notoriously unfriendly to web spider programs and gets this huge jump in traffic??? Like I said... very creative programming going on there somewhat.
If you didn't understand that it says that the ranks/numbers in the graphs are only from traffic generated by users of the alexa toolbar. A fraction of the active internet community. I guess most internet users don't like a third party recording and saving every little thing they do online. Any conclusions drawn by those figures would be full of huge holes. And it certainly wouldn't stand a chance in any court.
I disagree heartily! It is by all means a completely unbiased sampling of traffic for exactly the reasons you state. None of the toolbar users are very likely to favor one site over the other, unless kingsnake.com had some big drive to get most of their users to use that particular toolbar, which would explain that huge jump in May 2003. Since this appears unlikely, it is an unbiased view of a group of users that would be visiting both sites in relative proportions. So yes, this would definitely have a bearing in a courtroom. It plainly and incontrovertibly shows that not only did kingsnake.com not suffer any loss of traffic during the time frame of the alleged damages, it shows an appreciable and fully documentable increase in traffic to that site. That one graph alone would get that case laughed out of court. What other types of damages would the domain name kingsnakes.com have been able to inflict on kingsnake.com??? Did someone type in kingsnakes.com by accident and somehow get so confused that they got domain hosting at faunaclassifieds.com by mistake??? Did someone post ads in the classifieds sections and somehow pay for a classified account that doesn't exist, thereby taking that money out of Jeffies pocketbook??? Or perhaps someone wanted to take out a banner ad and again became thoroughly confused about which site they were actually purchasing this from.
No, all signs point to this as being a frivolous (in my opinion) and malicious (again in my opinion) lawsuit filed against the owner of a competing website. And each and every one of you reading this who maintains a paid account on kingsnake.com is helping to pay the money that Jeffie is using to do this. Who are the investors that Jeffie has talked about for his site??? Do they agree with these types of tactics to try to keep kingsnake.com on top of the heap by trying to squash the competition in this manner??? Who is on the board of directors??? They agree with this sort of crap as well??? How many of you are saying "but gee, I need my account over there because that is how I make my money!!", and simply try to ignore this all or justify turning your head away because your business is much more important than any ethical considerations about what is really happening here. For that matter, how many of you are perfectly willing to give Jeffie the money he asks for a commercial account and or a front page link, then to salve your conscience, you may throw Rich a bone of $20 or so??? You people are voting with your dollars in this issue. You people are the ones telling Jeffie that whatever he does is just fine with you, because he offers you an invaluable service that you need, no matter what.
Rich, I hate to tell you I told you so, but I did. You should have closed this site down long ago when I pointed out the writing on the wall. What you should do is to contact Jeffie and offer him this site as a settlement to roll back the clock before you two got your heads knocking together. Is this site really worth the fighting in court you are going to have to go through over it??? Is it really worth it to you merely for the sake of giving all these people an entertaining place to spend their time while you have to hire attorneys and file court documents??? Step back and take a real long hard look at this, pardner. It's just not worth it.
