Thought it'd never show up, but finally at 8:30 this morning, I get up go check my adsense, see that I'd gotten a click, then I happen to look up at my Alexa toolbar and notice that my site was at 9,600,188. I had to double check, though obviously an absolutely HORRIBLE rating, but nevertheless I'm ranked and I have something to look forward to. So tell me what is exactly considered an "acceptable" ranking. Obviously being in the top 100,000 is considered excellent, but whats a "decent" rank? Chad
Over 1,000,000 is bad, under 1,000,000 is decent, under 100,000 is good, under 10,000 is excellent, under 1,000 is brilliant. Get a couple of links to your website and you should jump to Alexa rank 1,000,000.
@sacada2, how does that work? No criticism, I'm genuinely curious since I've never used the Alexa toolbar, only the Google toolbar. I've heard that the Alexa toolbar installs spyware on the users computer.
Hey congratulations. Today, when I was just playing around with some domain estimating thing; it showed I had ranked in Alexa. So I just found that out today. I don't know how long it's been ranked since I hadn't been working to get it ranked. After all, it's still a work in progress like a lot of my other sites. I know I've had like two sites years ago that were completed and I promoted the heck out of them and gained what seemed to be a lot traffic coming from Yahoo Groups and oddly enough those didn't rank in Alexa at all. And I've personally never downloaded their toolbar either, back then and not even now. So with that said and the site of mine that I just found out did rank, I don't really know whether to be happy or what since I really don't know what I did to get it ranked to begin with. But again congratulations Diminished29, since apparently it was something you were working on achieving.
just a few months ago my Alexa ranking is 250,000, when i removed it, my site rank reach up to 1,300,000+ so i installed it again, now it's 1,201,000. try it for at least a month.
Reciprocal links are ok, plain backlinks are better. You shouldn't worry about your Alexa rank a great deal, just work on traffic, SEO and adsense.
I've definately been working on more traffic, putting my site in my signature on all the major forums I visit the most. Submitting to article directories, and I think I'm gonna try and do a few Adword campaigns here soon to see how those work out for me. Chad
alexa is over-rated, it's ranking isn't relevant, you shouldn't care about your alexa ranking. I would think technorati rank would be more relevant, focus on that.
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Not necessarily. I need to have traffic who have the Alexa toolbar. If my traffic was from a nation that had never heard of Alexa, I wouldn't be ranking in Alexa, although I might be receiving a fair amount of traffic daily.
You should never rely on the Alexa rankings. I had a web site that had 10x times than my other web site, even though it had much better traffic - it was ranked somewhere around 300,000, and my other web site with much less traffic, was ranked around 150,000. I never even consider Alexa.
Congrats... But I don't know what I am congratulating you for... Being "Ranked" in Alexa means absolutely nothing except that your website is more than a few weeks old and you apparently have "some" traffic. When you are ranked 600,000 or less, then you post about it and talk about making money... When you are 100,000 or less you don't need to talk about making money.. We all just assume you must be.