Any ideas on how to get one's Alexa ranking lowered? I've got a Google pagerank of 3, but a huge Alexa rank. How much does traffic affect Alexa? Any ideas for me? Thanks, Mark
Recently I wrote a few articles in html and use internal linkings to point the articles at each other. It seem to improve my rankings from 2.2 mil to 1.67mil (currently) in 5 days. Still figuring out how it works though. Perhaps another expert can tell us how?
alexa is a little skewed because it's based off of who uses the alexa toolbar. the more people who visit your site with the toolbar the better your rankings are... unfortunately not many people use the toolbar but it's all relative (a bit biased towards tech sites though). you can boost your alexa rank down to like 300k just by installing the toolbar and visiting your site lol.
You can also put their button on the site, so that all visitors are counted, whether they have the toolbar installed or not...
Yes adding the alexa buttons onto your site will help it track it better which will improve your ranking. Building backlinks is of course important but driving sustained longterm traffic is important in making your rank go up. I have heard in order to get into the top 50,000 you have to have roughly sustained traffic of 3,000 users per day. This might not be 100% accurate, but my companies website is ranked in the top 85,000 and we recieve an average of 700-1000 users per day, so I could see that being about right. After the top 50,000 Im sure it gets much tougher to move up.
Basically the more traffic you get, the lower the number is but there's no general representation that will tell you how many UV per day that will correspond to the Alexa rank. For me, best way is to create a lot of contents and thus higher chances to rank well in SE and get traffic.
Alexa rank is crap. It's totally inaccurate. In fact, all you need to do is get a few friends to install the alexa toolbar, get them to go to your site, do a couple of refresh and that should get you to around 50,000. If you are really sneaky, go purchase some junk, untargetted traffic (there are plenty of those alexa traffic packages out there) and that should get you into 10,000. But if you're looking for REAL traffic, then of course none of these will work.
Well i never even check whats my rank on alexa , not that i should care about it too i think... The more traffic the better alexa is only a webmaster tool , which is too seems to be useless and innacurate. Anyways why alexa shows that my site has about 60% of visitors from India , while other counters should 50-60% of my visitors are from US? =/
The more people who visit your site with the alexa toolbar the less your alexa rank will be. But since it only counts traffic with the toolbar its pretty inaccurate
This is true but i think you are understating how many people it would really take to get that high of an alexa ranking. It takes a lot more than a few friends with the alexa bar to get into the top 50,000 or 10,000. If you look at their top 100, it is what in my mind believes would be the best ranking of websites in order of popularity. You can't discredit it completely because it can only analyze from the alexa toolbar. It's a very good general guide of how popular a website is... And it does it's job better than any other sources available. Compete is also another option, but not as reliable IMO.
I think you are going about this wrong! So many people nowadays are so concerned with PR and Alexa rank. These are just numbers and mean nothing in terms of income. If you put work into getting good traffic, alexa rank will follow (not that it matters what the number is).
meh. Alexa is good for advertising income (as a selling point), thats about it. I would suggest installing the toolbar on your own computer, you will see a huge jump in position within a month or two.
In my opinion, selling ad space is only a secondary source of income. He would be better off getting the actual traffic to his site to increase the Alexa rank and make more money from the visitors.
While advertisers like to hear about things like PR and Alexa ranking, they also want to advertise on sites that are put together well. They aren't likely to advertise on a site with poorly written material, even if the Alexa and PR of a site are appealing (as, obviously, these can be manipulated). So, really, both are important when getting advertisers. Concentrate on content first and PR/Alexa second. Why? Because the better your content and offerings, the easier it will be to get those higher PR and lower Alexa rankings and the less time you'll have to spend on manipulating the system.
To answer the question specifically, traffic affects Alexa a lot more when you have a high Alexa rank. e.g. If you have 8,000,000 then a small amount of traffic will drop it a few million. If you have a rank of 500,000 then quite a lot of traffic is needed to drop it by just 100,000 If you have an Alexa rank of say 80,000, then a LOT of traffic is needed to drop it by 1,000
You will never get 100% accurate results from Alexa, but it is one of the best "General" guides you can use to quickly determine the value of a website or how popular a website is. As a few people have stated, these rankings are what many major advertisers look for because there is no real way of being able to dissect a website unless you have direct access to the analytics itself. You can of course use the "click exchange" traffic sites like link referral to trade clicks, but this is very time consuming and is in no way targeted traffic and is only good for ballooning your stats.