I normally don't feed the trolls, but sadly it looks like PG (Private Girls) has felt the urge to retweet a niftily fabricated lie by a Twitter troll with an ongoing defamation campaign against PP and some of its members, with the known or unkown support of anyone who follows him (so, don't; actually block him!). But, as for PG, I just want to set record straight.
I'm not surprised at anything coming from trolls like this; however I am at Private Girls' action. I've been in email contact with Serena occasionally over the years, and I have a good opinion of her, so I assume that the social media aspect is taken care by someone with absolutely no idea of the Australian escort industry.
Now, here are the facts: a troll with less moral fabric than a rat, used similarweb.com to establish a traffic comparison between PP and PG. Now apparently statistics don't lie or so he says, but we all know that when garbage in, garbage out, or in this case, bullshit in, bullshit out. Here's the result:
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The comparison is not really made between the two top domains: punterplanet.com and privategirls.com.au but between the deceased guide.punterplanet.com and privategirls.com.au. That is, between a subdomain that stopped functioning in mid April and a full top domain that still goes on, with results for the month of May. That is, it will only give traffic of some pages of PP (those of the old guide), and all of PG. While Private Girls has not chosen to structure their site in subdomains, we have, and traffic, the same as advertising packages on PP are spread across guide and forums.
But more importantly, apart from being just a part of the site and not all, it's a part that stopped functioning in mid April as guide.punterplanet.com was replaced by escorts.punterplanet.com. It wasn't just a software upgrade, but a brand new subdomain from scratch.
Similarweb.com even when it works with estimates like most other traffic sites, is intelligent enough to know that the traffic of a site is that of the sum or combination of its subdomains. So, what it is the reality if we make the comparison properly?
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The latest results they have belong to May 2015, where PP seems to have experienced a fall in comparison to its normal traffic due to the replacement of one subdomain for another. A small price to pay if this becomes a better subdomain and site for the long term future, but search engines and bots won't gather and rank this overnight.
In April, PG, after a very long time (as you can see in the graphic starting December 2014), reached PP's traffic, and in May shows somewhat higher for Similarweb.com. PP: 50K and PG: 55K... mind you, that is low compared to our own server stats, but forget those and let's use another public source instead.
So, what is happening today? Similarweb.com hasn't caught up yet but... well, looking at Alexa.com, another popular source of traffic, PP is well ahead in the ranking than any other local well known directories, including PG.
For example:
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(The lower the number, the closer to the top of the ranking you are). Both Alexa.com and Similarweb.com work with estimates for the record.
I don't want to bring in other directories into this but anyone can go to similarweb.com, type punterplanet.com and then compare it to others for a point of reference.
So, whoever manages PG's Twitter account will need to probably think twice before retweeting dodgy info from trolls. Apart from the gross falsehood in this case, it's also shortsighted, as PP is, whether I like it or not, a huge promotional tool for PG and other directories. We're not simply competing but in a way complementing each other as sites. It's just plain silly, and I hate having to post this, but someone else started it, so here you have it.
