Does anyone know how to get higher rankings on Alexa when your audience is a large group of non-alexa toolbar users? My website is www.UtahLuxury.com It is geared towards real estate enthusiasts who obviously don't have the toolbar installed.
Just build your traffic, content, and continue to work harder. Your alexa rank will go up - as soon as you attract the webmasters / visitors that have the alexa toolbar installed.
should I start marketing to the tech audience? Do I need to go buy ad space on popular tech site or something?
I 100% agree that alexa really doesnt matter... except for the fact that our purpose is to make money from our 2 advertising spots. Alexa happens to be the defining purpose behind the value of your site unless you have a physical sales person (which we are about to hire). I really appreciate your comments so please keep them coming!! Thanks
Why would you need an alexa toolbar? I know what alexa is, but don't see how a toolbar would help your stats..
Alexa tracks your stats by looking at how many times your website gets landed on by someone with a toolbar
so the hits aren't counted if someone looks at your webpage and doesn't have an Alexa toolbar? That's....ridiculous..
I totally agree with you like what has alexa got to do with your business ? As far as you are making money from the site why should bother about your alexa rank instead concentrate on getting more business by leveraging.
See the problem lies with where current versus future advertising lies. We are going to hire someone to sell ads, but in the interim, we use adsdaq or adbrite or textlinkads or googles adsense. Some of which pay better for a higher alexa rank. Which is the sticky part... our users dont have the toolbar installed so we have a low rank. Therefore we make dog for cash right. It is getting better with the more users on our website that happen to click through, but I mean come on like anyone can survive on $19 a day. Especially when I use a Mac and photography equipment that costs thousands upon thousands to even stay on top of .
Respectfully.. have to disagree about ADSDAQ. Our payout has nothing to do with your Alexa rank. We're a contextual exchange so all it comes down to is do you have content that we have advertising for (also, we pay only on U.S. traffic for now. Hope to expand to other countries soon). Our technology looks at a page, figures out its category(ies) and then the advertiser targets according to categories. The best way to use ADSDAQ is in conjunction with another network (likely your highest paying). Whatever that network is paying you on an eCPM basis (effective CPM - AdSense shows you this for example), then you should ask for a bit more from ADSDAQ (10,20% more I'd suggest to optimize your fill rate). hope this helps.
I agree with you on adsdaq. However since our layout change we cant use adsdaq or adbrite becuase they dont offer either size of what we have available for advertising which leaves us with adsense and textlinkads. 1 in 2 here has to do with alexa rank I love adsdaq and wish they offered more sizes
Wish we had the size you need.. we carry most of the 'big' ones though not 468x60. Wild guess... is that the one? Feel free to suggest new sizes. I'll pass along to the team here. No guarantees that we can get it included right away but we'll put it on everyone's radar. Glad to hear you like ADSDAQ, too.
Love adsdaq. What we are lacking is a 250X250. I can fit in the 468 into the posts but we have yet to write a post in the new setup with a 468 built into the post. We will have to test it out and see how it looks paired up with our 500px wide images. We used to use adsdaq for 350X200 and leaderboard, but have since changed the layout. Now we dont use either of those sizes and found ourselves in a rut. Thanks for listening adsdaq!