A place to track the website Alexa.com and share info about the web traffic analysis offered by Alexa. Alexa is owned by Amazon.
At Alexa.com you can view traffic trends for various websites. These trends are calculated using a...
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A place to track the website Alexa.com and share info about the web traffic analysis offered by Alexa. Alexa is owned by Amazon.
At Alexa.com you can view traffic trends for various websites. These trends are calculated using a sampling technique. Alexa also offers a toolbar for your browser that provides extra information about all of the websites that you visit.
Your beautiful web page will be a waste of effort if it does not receive traffic. There are a lot of ways to attract visitors to your web page, but today, we’ll take a look specifically at the Alexa traffic rank, which is the service that is relied on by most advertisers on determining the value of your web page. As mentioned earlier, the major search engines are now showing the Alexa traffic rank in their search results. Although it is unclear to me whether the traffic rank will impact a... Read Full Story
Some of you may not be familiar with Alexa so I will fill you in. Alexa is a website that ranks other websites based on the traffic that they receive. The lower the Alexa rank the more traffic the site gets. Why is Alexa ranking so important to bloggers like us? Advertisers use the Alexa rankings to determine whether or not they will advertise on the particular site or not. Your Alexa rank also helps paid review sites decide how much to charge advertisers for a review on your blog. If you... Read Full Story
Regardless of whether your favorite search engine is MSN, Yahoo or Google, you have probably noticed something new. It looks like a bar in the lower left corner. This represents your Alexa traffic rank. Here’s a look, using the search term, Christmas special:
What in the World is Alexa?
Alexa has been around since 1996, recording Internet usage with its toolbar. The service uses its toolbar users’ browsing activities to estimate a site’s traffic and to estimate the percentage of... Read Full Story
Alexa.com is a website that provides information on traffic levels for websites. The Alexa rank of a website is measured based on the amount of users who have visited a website with the Alexa toolbar installed in the machine. This article will discuss the importance of the Alexa Rank, along with site monetization and also how to improve your Alexa ranking. There are some specific strategies that one can use to increase the Alexa Rank radically in the short and long term. Read Full Story
As you all may know i’ve been updating good ole Technorino quite often and as a result of that, my Alexa traffic rank has been going up..and up…and up. Just look at these recent stats for ranks:
Traffic Rank for Technorino.com:
Alexa traffic rank based on a combined measure of page views and users (reach)
Yesterday 1 wk. Avg. 3 mos. Avg. 3 mos. Change
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As I was waiting to check my new alexa ranking at that day, I got shocked by the news of Alexa changing their ranking algorithm, I was expecting a good change but it was some kind of disappointment for me! 1 month ago and at the 2 months birthday of my site, I was glad to achieve a 6 Digits Alexa Traffic Ranking (Below 1 Million in less than 2 months) , and the achievement was still on in the last month, going down and down till I got 502.000 total alexa rank, and around 250.000 week alexa... Read Full Story
…and by that I mean it looks like they’ve actually BUILT a ranking engine to surpass the feeble Alexa Toolbar as the only measure of a site’s value.
I was one of, if not the first, to caution people when Alexa started that the rankings were based only on people who had the tool bar installed. These were predominantly webmasters. So sites that webmasters frequented fared well, like mine, in Alexa while others had terrible rankings. (The sites website owners weren’t likely to ever visit but... Read Full Story
Recently, Alexa Website has made a huge change creating a New Alexa Rating Algorithm , so almost everyone faced a great shift in their Alexa Rank, either positively or negatively, at that time I was of those who faced a backward shift (500 to 900 thousands). A while after this huge update of the Alexa Rank Algorithm, Alexa struggled in maintenance for almost 2 weeks (May 19th, 2008 - June 2nd, 2008), NOT updating the Alexa Weekly AVG nor Daily Reach Graphs for any website, accordingly, NOT... Read Full Story
Alexa Says YouTube Is Now Bigger Than Google. Alexa Is Useless We've gotten a few tips that YouTube has actually grown larger than Google in terms of page views according to Alexa. This is, Alexa - SWiK Alexa is a traffic analysis and web toolbar company owned by Amazon. Alexa offers an API and traffic data is reused in sites such as Alexaholic and Alexadex. External Links Alexa Alexa's Cafe and Catering ALEXA’S CATERING Alexa’s Catering is Leigh Henderson’s original business; she started as... Read Full Story
Alexa's Story News Clips A Message from Alexa: Alexa's Story It Happened to Alexa Foundation, founded by Tom and Stacey Branchini, honors the courage of their daughter Alexa, who survived a Alexa Web Search -- Products and Services Alexa web search -- a new kind of search engine. With traffic rankings, user reviews and other information about sites, Alexa is a web site discovery tool. Alexa web search Read Full Story
