Summitpost has now been rated the top climbing website by http://www.top100climbing.com
We knew that already - no surprise.

Thats Great.

Indeed. But Number 1 is a tough spot. There's always someone trying to tear you down. It's also hard to maintain that position. I find it's best to be in the Top 10 or top 5, and I expect we'll "bob" down and up along from here.

But Cy's right. SP and its members deserves to be on top. When I think of the amount of work that has gone into this site, yeah, it should be recognized! Well done everyone.

Summitpost is a great site, informative, a great resource tool and a site which encourages active debate on all topics.

Its members are a great source of information/feedback from all corners of the globe and all levels of experience.

Cheers
Roger in Sydney, btw merry christmas as it is 0730 Christmas day here in Sydney.

Of course then again it was rated number one by popularity - that was the only measure.

It would be interesting to find out how many hits we get worldwide.

This list has been updated and Summitpost has increased its lead on the new number 2.
Congratulations to Summitpost member Alan Arnette for breaking into the top 100. His website has been rated #81. - Great website Alan
http://www.top100climbing.com (updated every Sunday)

pearson wrote:Does that mean there are people on SP who climb?

Why do you hate america???

top100climbing.com seem to be recently registered by Russian woman by name Tetyana Korovina.
Same lady also registered www.Top100Linux.com
as well as another 2 dozen of "top100" domains for $3.99 each;
Top100ScubaDiving.com, Top100-Bank.com, Top100-Book.com
Top100-Game.com, Top100-Health.com, Top100-Mortgage.com, Top100-Movie.com
Top100-Music.com, Top100-News.com, Top100-Search.com, Top100Biz.com
Top100Car.com, Top100ConsumerElectronics.com, Top100ForExSites.com
Top100Investing.com, Top100Map.com, Top100OnlineDating.com
Top100PersonalFinance.com, Top100Racing.com, Top100Science.com
Top100Soccer.com, Top100Travel.com, http://jobs-top100.com/
and maybe more. All those sites use same technique to fetch relevant names from the search engines. $3.99x25 domains=100 dollars. guess the income will cover the input costs
Well, Russian ladies are clever...

We cant accuse her of showing favoritism to Summitpost. (unless its for profit) - edited
Someone else beat her to the top 100 mountaineering books http://www.ronwatters.com/BkChess.htm
They are not numbered, so we dont know which is the most popular.

That site is a joke for the reasons I mentioned in the other thread (when SP was way down the list a short while ago). Probably the site author noticed us talking about his (obscure) site and decided to change the algorithm (or arbitrary placing) to put SP at #1 to get more attention and sell advertising. Basically he's using our message board conversations to get web traffic.

edit: *her* obscure site.

Thanks for the insight. Something worthwhile can come out of it if we can find someone on Summitpost or a well known mountaineering organisation (for unbiased objectivity) with a lot of time and experience to adopt this list on a non materialistic basis and first hand knowledge. - Any ideas?

Summitpost has now tripled its lead on number 2

Summitpost is still doing well. -- www.hikearizona.com has now moved up to number 16. It has 36,204 photos, 667 hikes and 11,759 Trip logs. It also has a forum

Nice! Thanks, Cy.