What happened to Alexa ranking System? You must have noticed that the Alexa rank of your blog or website is not getting updated for the past four weeks or so despite the Alexa website’s traffic details query is showing data.

I think the ranking system has been bitten by a bug or there is a technical glitch somewhere in their program. It’s been a long time that Alexa tool bar rankings are not being updated. May be they are now planning to take into account more data sources to release the “New Alexa Ranking System” similar to what they implemented on April-2008.

But Alexa should maintain a blog wherein they can post the updates about their ranking system. There are many forums that are flooded with same question –“Why Alexa Rank is not updating?”.

But nobody has an answer.

How to find the latest Alexa Rank of your Blog or Website?

There are alternate ways to determine the current Alexa Rank for your blog or website. Some of the ways to find updated alexa rank are-

Method#1 – Download “Top 1 million sites list” from Alexa.

This is the most accurate way of determining the current Alexa Rank. Top 1 million sites list is available for download as a Comma-Separated-Values (CSV) file in zipped format that contains the updated rank data. Download the Alexa Top 1,000,000 Sites list.

Method#2 – Using Script by Mr.Chad

You will find the script along with the installation instruction on vbulletin forum here. This hack will make your site go to alexa.com once a day and grab your current alexa rank. You can place your rank anywhere by using $alexarank.

Method#3 - Website Marketing SEO Score Tool

With this tool you can easily determine the current Alexa rank for your website. Visit here and enter the URL of the website for which you want to determine its current Alexa Rank and then press ‘Generate Report’ button. Once the report is generated you can easily find your Current Alexa Rank under “Score Summary”.