It's Yedda week here on the FunAdvice blog

Recently, I've been pondering public relations, press, and how the word of things spreads. Did you see my question about how to reach out to pete cashmore of mashable?. The reason being, we (FunAdvice) have yet to be written up in Mashable or TechCrunch, or any number of higher profile blogs that write about the kind of stuff we do at FunAdvice.

So given Yedda's luck in getting written up on both, I thought I'd do a quick comparison.

In Google, when you do an advanced search, you find Yedda has 9,800 questions. And similarly, you find they have 3,800 members. Their URLs are unique, and by removing the "duplicates" to just focus on user profiles and question URLs, it's pretty interesting.

Given their coverage by Mashable, TechCrunch, PC World, the MIT write up...honestly, I thought they'd have been bigger. Much bigger.

Now, let's take a look at how FunAdvice is doing, by those same metrics, according to Google (can you tell we love Google? lol).

58,000 questions indexed. Not bad. Nearly five times the number Yedda has. How about people? 11,800...in this case, we're about four times the size of Yedda.

What do third party reports say? See this quantcast chart comparing FunAdvice & Yedda. So, according to Quantcast, we're way ahead. Take a look at what compete.com says for FunAdvice vs Yedda. Again, we're light years ahead of them.

The only metric I can find that suggests we're losing, is Alexa.com. However, any webmaster will tell you, get five people (ironic, that's how many staffers Yedda has on their about page) and have them install the Alexa toolbar, and your metrics will take off.

Why am I writing all this? Mostly because I'm competitive - anybody who builds a product wants to win in their category. And because recently, Yedda got 2.5 million in funding. I've been happy to beat them without knowning how much money they had previously, however, knowing that we're beating them hands down when they have a ton more resources than us, somehow makes it that much more special.

Don't you think? :) Technorati tags:
yedda, funadvice, social networking, qna, questions, answers.