My Own Personal Goal With Barbados

One of the many blogs that I read is Joe Tech. It is pretty entertaining and well written blog that does a good job of keeping my attention which is not easily done. Many of you may or may not know but he has a sister blog called Link Bait Me. Yesterday Joe wrote about a personal challenge he has with increasing his traffic ranking in New Zealand. It seems that he gets quite a bit of traffic from New Zealanders and wants to get his traffic ranking above 500.

I thought that was pretty odd. Why is he getting so much traffic from such an obscure place. Then I looked at my own rankings in different countries and here is what I found.

Barbados - 3,359

Jamaica - 6,883

New Zealand - 8,053

United States - 10,745

Australia - 11,019

Norway - 11,644

Pakistan- 12,289 (wow the Paki's even love me)

United Kingdom - 15,492

Canada - 18,403

Indonesia - 25,209

I am highest rated in Barbados! Now, the 3,359 ranking probably isn't saying much as Barbados probably doesn't have many sites or much internet traffic. Heck I didn't even know where Barbados was until I looked at a map.



So there it is, the Eastern most island in the Caribbean island chain.

The economy in Barbados has traditionally centered around sugarcane. However in recent decades, the tourism trade has been a major factor for the country and is responsible for almost 50% of the country's income. So what's the point? The point is that I am going to try and break into the top 3000 for Barbados. Why? Just to see if I can do it. Everyone has to have goals right?

How am I going to do that? Linkbait as Joe suggests. I will try a couple of things in the next few weeks to see if I can crack the 3000 mark and report back to you at the end of the month.

Please make sure you seat backs and tray tables are in their upright positions - we are heading for Barbados!