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Alexa Ranking

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    How Alexa ranking works. How it effects in SEO? What factors are included in Alexa Ranking.
     
    Viki Rana, Aug 31, 2011 IP
  2. leonidasblaze

    leonidasblaze Peon

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    Alexa ranking is not much important in SEO. Alexa ranking is depend on the traffic of your site and you can increase the Alexa rank with getting huge traffic for your site.Alexa ranking is not important for other except traffic.
     
    leonidasblaze, Sep 1, 2011 IP
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    FFMG Well-Known Member

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    It's basically a website 'score', every users that has an Alexa toolbar and visits your site increases the 'rank' of that website.

    Of course this means that only those with the toolbar installed are counted, and this is a very small number of users.

    In _my_ experience, a lot of webmasters/SEO users have the toolbar installed, (not sure why, but that's the case for me).

    A quick way of increasing your own rank is to install the Alexa toolbar yourself, and, by simply visiting your own site your ranking should increase drastically, (and if you are not in the US you might even rank your site in the top 5000 of your country).

    Why do I use it myself? Not for the ranks of course, but for the trend, if you see wild drops in your rank, (whatever that rank is), means that the few users that have a toolbar have, for some reason, moved somewhere else and that needs to be investigated...

    Also, (again in my experience), Google Analytic is a lot more accurate but requires the user to have javascript, (in my case, spamers/splogers don't normally use JS as they use bots), so spammers are often not counted.

    FFMG
     
    FFMG, Sep 1, 2011 IP
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    lifeplayer Notable Member

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    alexa ranking is depend on the traffic from the user with alexa toolbar, the only factor is traffic from user with alexa tool bar, that all. Alexa ranking is not affecting seo at all
     
    lifeplayer, Sep 1, 2011 IP
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    karthimx Prominent Member

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    Is alexa site audit helpful ?
     
    karthimx, Sep 1, 2011 IP
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    Don't pay attention to Alexa. Try to boost your page rank, it is the most important ranking. It gives you authority when it comes to ranking for certain keywords.
     
    jwmann2, Sep 1, 2011 IP
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    FFMG Well-Known Member

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    This is not 100%, certain advertisers, (text-link-ads for example), use your Alexa rank.
    So it does have some importance.

    Google pagerank is just an indication of how well your page is ranked in the search results.

    FFMG
     
    FFMG, Sep 1, 2011 IP
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    who cares about Alexa ?
    if you get traffic then dont worry about alexa and all
     
    aileenwuornos, Sep 2, 2011 IP
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    Alexa Ranking, Who uses it anymore? I thought that ever since had launched its PR in the market that was all that mattered. Anyway I think that the same things that apply for PR will apply for Alexa rank as well.
     
    unknownpray, Sep 13, 2011 IP
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    Alexa is just to show off how popular your site is.
     
    Rikey, Sep 25, 2011 IP
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    nomaziz Greenhorn

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    tell me how to increase alexa ranking in 1-3 months under 10k ranking......
     
    nomaziz, Sep 30, 2011 IP
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    Alexa ranking is not important for SEO as it mainly depend upon alexa toolbar statistics, instead of it use google webmaster tools for SEO.
     
    you-me, Oct 2, 2011 IP
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    Alexa ranking does not really play a role in SEO, it is instead a good way to see how you measure up against some of the other websites out there. It gives you a good idea of where you rank.
     
    MrJohn, Oct 3, 2011 IP
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    Under 10k, not sure you can easily, but under 100K all you need to do is install the toolbar on your browser and visit your site once or twice a day.
    That's probably enough.

    FFMG
     
    FFMG, Oct 4, 2011 IP
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    I have an Alexa account... very helpful.

    I like the fact that you can easily find any sites' backlinks and target audience.
     
    Guide, Oct 4, 2011 IP
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    well my alexa score is updated daily and It usually gets better every time my site is linked or I add newer content
     
    umar.shehzad, Nov 27, 2011 IP
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    Alexa Ranking Depend on Traffic on site
     
    steve.john, Dec 6, 2011 IP
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    No its not depend on traffic.

    One of my site get traffic around 200 visit per day has alexa 750k and other site which get only 80 visit per day is under 400k

     
    karthimx, Dec 6, 2011 IP
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    I also don't know much about Alexa I see alexa is linked with google. It works with help of google when i installed alexa toolbar.
    I found my blog is in n/a position in alexa and google 0 pr.
     
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