converting unique to alexa

banana8

May 27th 2009, 4:18 am

hi guys,

i wonder, is there a way to convert the numbers of unique visitors a website is getting a day to alexa ranking ?

thanks

lycos

May 27th 2009, 4:46 am

Nope, for all I know there is no reliable method. In fact the alexa ranking itself would not give a correct indication as there are too many variables around.

Joshdube

May 27th 2009, 7:18 am

Alexa is worked out by your visitors having the alexa toolbar. So you could have thousands of unique visitors but an alexa of like 20,000,000 becuase none of them have the toolbar

So to increase your alexa encourage them to install the tool bar.

Josh

Indyan

May 27th 2009, 8:23 am

Generally I have found SU visits = Increase in Alexa rank since a lot of people with SU (esp those folks with interest in stuff like blogging, web designing etc) have alexa installed.

webcosmo

May 27th 2009, 8:39 am

I don't think they have exposed their exact algorithm.

Aaron Sustar

May 27th 2009, 8:42 am

I don't think there's much to expose really ... They have all the browsing statistics from everyone who uses their toolbar and they just calculate the percentages for each and every website in the sistem.

uttoransen

May 27th 2009, 8:54 am

i don't think they calculate the toolbar data anymore... or atleast that's not the only data they use to rank website. Most of the high rank webmaster related sites, do not have good alexa ranks anymore...

hoppimike

Sep 5th 2009, 3:52 am

oh THAT'S what Alexa is! It keeps terrorizing my website lol :)

STATBD

Sep 5th 2009, 11:58 pm

Alexa is worked out by your visitors having the alexa toolbar. So you could have thousands of unique visitors but an alexa of like 20,000,000 becuase none of them have the toolbar

So to increase your alexa encourage them to install the tool bar.

Josh

You are right

banana8

Sep 6th 2009, 12:04 am

Alexa is worked out by your visitors having the alexa toolbar. So you could have thousands of unique visitors but an alexa of like 20,000,000 becuase none of them have the toolbar

So to increase your alexa encourage them to install the tool bar.

Josh

Wrong, because the same rules apply to all websites world wide.

seminar

Sep 6th 2009, 1:39 am

I also think they are made a algorithm based on backlink

juston

Sep 6th 2009, 1:41 am

Nope, for all I know there is no reliable method. In fact the alexa ranking itself would not give a correct indication as there are too many variables around.

+1 just like pagerank it's just for considiration. it is not true traffic proof.

i have websites that have bad alexa rank but very good uv.