Alexa traffic rating of 349,259 does that suck or is it good?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by VerizonGo, Dec 4, 2007.

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    Verizongo.com has a traffic rank of: 349,259


    How is this for a month old website?
     
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  2. Spider-Man

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    It depends. Do you or any of your site visitors use the Alexa 'spambar, (ie. toolbar) - or do you often navigate from your domain straight to alexa's website - or do you have an alexa traffic rank display on your site? If the answer to any of these is 'yes', then no, it doesn't mean anything. Alexa have been corrupted in this way for a long time, they rate sites higher if they suck up their ass, not on traffic rank alone.
     
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    Not bad for one month old site..try getting under 100,000
     
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    Seems to be a decent rank, but it kinda depends? I've seen better and works.....Was the traffic artifically done, or is it REAL traffic?
     
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    That will be a great rank for a one month old site but real traffic is better because Alexa might be manipulated.
     
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    I'm new here but what is a good traffic number for only being up that long? Just curious to know what you all think too.
     
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    If you get 2 visitors per month, then yes, that's a good rank.

    But if you get 2 million visitors per month, then no, that rank sucks... But if you get 2 million visitors per month do you really care about the rank?
     
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    One of my sites has a ranking in the 300,000's and has a very active forum. Ranking, in and of itself, is nebulous. What matters is engaging the customer and conversion.
     
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    One other thing...

    I've found that there seems to be an exponential traffic increase the higher your Alexa rank. In other words, it's quite easy to rocket up through the lower numbers with a reasonable increase in traffic. But when you reach about 30,000, the same reasonable increase in traffic has much less effect.

    So, 30,000 or higher is significant.
     
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    thats because there are 6 billion websites, and about 30 to 40k that are really popular....

    going from 20 millionth to 10 millionth would be getting about 1 more visitor a month (ie. 2 in total)
     
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    It's alright for one month, but you want to aim for 100,000 or less.
     
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    Depends on the audience of your site. If your site is geared towards webmasters, then your Alexa rank will be much higher.
     
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