How often do alexa update rankings?

As the title sais, I wonder how often alexa updates rankings. I have got a big increase of traffic, but the ranking hasn't got better since more than 24 hours ago. The ranking is 1,600,000, could it be that my site has less priority then the others because it is so badly ranked?

Kalle

 

im not sure,but how accurate really is alexa?

 

Don't know, but its always fun to rank high with Alexa It is nice to brag with in linkexchanges and such.

Kalle

 

The traffic wouldn't matter unless each of those users had an alexa toolbar....that's how they calculate their figures

 

I think it depends on quality steady traffic. My directory currently has a ranking of 244k and steadily going down (which is good) and it has only been up for a month.

 

I use to check it often and they use to update the daily traffic parts of the stats on a daily basis to every 2 days. The 3 months section, they update that every few weeks or something.

 

they update once a week, usually on the monday thats when i check my ranks, if ur rank is in top 100k, u get updated every 24 hrs

 

it depends on the site but i think they update it every week

 

How do they know how many people visit your site? That just confuses me...

 

Alexa.com base their website rankings on how many people with the alexa toolbar installed visit your site.
Its not worth much, having a high alexa ranking.

With that being said, today I've reached 25k in my ranking, compared to 43k just a few hours ago.
Depending on how much traffic you have, I think they update eevery 12-48 hours.

 

oh, so they just take a sample of the people online and use them? That's interesting...

 

I thought the word you use here is more interesting...
Ted

 

I have sent them an e-mail about odd behavior of the rankings of one of my sites and they replied that sites that are not in the top 100,000 do not have very reliable rankings.

 

I have wrote a small article about alexa rankings including how alexa works and how to improve your rank. In answer to your question, Alexa does not keep close tabs on ranks over 100,000. Alexa keeps closer tabs on the top 10,000 and closer on the top 1,000. Check out the following link for more details

http://www.everythingkitchens.com/increase_alexa_rankings.html

 

ok question about Alexa Rankings:

Is it a ranking of the traffic that I am receiving, or is it a ranking among the rest of the websites of the world based on traffic.

So say I'm ranking 346,918 (my current rank), My website is number 346,918 if all the websites were ordered by the amount of traffic?

 

I believe you are ranked in relation to the traffic you receive (alexa toolbar users) to the traffic other sites in alexa receive. Correct?

 

the rating that is basically a 3 month rolling average - then you can get the daily rating if you are in the 100k.

Matt

 

my site rank within alexa remains the same, this is since it very start? oue google pr is rising, but alexa is not even shows backlinks/ any advice, please?

 

Alexa updates your site if you update if often. its like directly proportional. from the day alexa bot visits your site, make sure you update it. then it will come to your site frequently. every time when it comes to your site it will update your stats in next 24hrs.

Its takes months for alexa to show backlinks.

 

I think Alexa change traffic rank daily but not sure