After several emails and comments from our users, we have developed a comments module so you can now add your comments to each site we feature!
You’ll need to be logged in to leave a comment, but once registered you can leave comments on any of our growing +101 family sites.
Keep them clean!
Finally we have a hit from every state in the whole of the US, all 52 states.
We had a hit from Ridgeland on the 7th October 2008 which had filled in the gap.
Next target is all 52 states in a calendar month 
We’ll keep you updated.
In terms of other site development, we’ve nearly finished our comments for each site development. We should have that running by the end of the week, so please check back for more information soon.
If you have any ideas to make the site work better for you please let us know as we’re keen to make it as user friendly as we can.
Looking back through the stats over the last month and following on from my blog the other week about hitting every state in the US, we’ve got one last one to go!!! Come on Mississippi!
US Map, Mississippi.
Let’s see if we can fill in that last blank with MS
After a lull in development over the last few weeks (we’ve been a bit busy with other stuff!), we added in the essential ranking that people have been asking for.
Now you can see the rank of the sites where ever you are. Number one in each category/topic has pride of place at the top of the page with a nice big image and then each subsequent entry has it’s ranking displayed under the box on the left.
After just six weeks our traffic and interest in the site has soared! We’re really pleased with the results so far and thanks to everyone for the positive feedback.
We’ve now attained an alexa rank of 126,908 and a three month average of 187,796. The site’s been creeping in and out of the top 100,000 for a few weeks which is really great, but as we all know, alexa ranking isn’t that exact.
Our traffic is increasing exponentially too, around 200 absolute unique visits and 1000 page views a day.
Keep submitting those sites!
Plurk is a site for everyone, and whilst similar to Twitter, it has a great many more features, including a neat timeline with all the “plurks” in it.
Take a look at ours here: http://www.plurk.com/user/101bestwebsites
We’ve created an auto uploader for all our sites when they get approved so you can keep up to date with our site submissions and blog articles; see what you think!
Websnapr have removed much of their free service as of today, now only leaving micro and small views without charge.
It’s a real shame as it was a pretty good setup, a little slow sometimes and it held onto it’s cache for quite a while, but it did what it was supposed to. Also we built our site around their odd screenshot sizes!
I wrote to Websnapr earlier today about their charging but their response indicated that their minimum charge was $45 US dollars a month for a 500,000 shot limit. This was a little steep for us, so we’ve had to find an alternative solution, especially as we cache all the shots on our own server to prevent traffic and we are only planning on getting around a thousand sites a month.
We’ve implemented a system this evening and we’ll see how it hangs together, let us know if you have any problems.
One month in and we’ve managed to creep up in Alexa to around 80,000!
alexa rank
Not bad for a new site! Lots of people are now voting and submitting and we are getting very good reactions around the internet.
Alexa ranking may not mean much, but still, it’s nice to see!
You, or anyone else for that matter, can now vote on +101!
It’s AJAX so the page doesn’t need to reload and when the votes go up to a decent amount we’ll sort each page in ranking order so you can see the most relevant, inspiring sites you wish.
With tags, categories, topics and search facilities you can find the sites that are relevant to you and get the ideas you need. Additionally, you can promote your site and get extra traffic when people are browsing.
Use your site link to create interest and get extra votes, see if you can get yourself to the top of the list for your list of 101 Best Websites!
After you’ve submitted your site to 101 Best Websites, you’ll be able to check how good its Search Engine Optimization is!
This is constantly updated, so if you do find problems with your site, you can change it and recheck. We’ll be adding more SEO features as time goes by, so keep checking back.
In the last few days we’ve also added tag viewing:
Click here to see sites tagged with “blog”
And put the basic search function in which you can use from any part of the site.
Hope you’re enjoying the site, any comments or feedback greatly apprecated, either contact us or leave some comments on our blog articles.
We’ll be working on the voting solution over the coming weeks and we’ll be able to launch the site out of beta!
Since our weekend of hard work we’ve got a long list of improvements to make with the site now live which we are slowly filtering through.
The first of which is getting the pagination sorted so you can browse through the 101 best websites for each category and topic.
The pagination is now complete and we’ll be putting in more and more improvements as time goes by, the next will be using tags to create lists of 101 for each one and of course the all important voting system, which is about half complete!
Take a look through our growing libraries of sites; we’ve already had a great response and lots of people are submitting their sites into the system, why don’t you do the same and get a jump on everyone else before we start getting lots more submissions!
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