Has Alexa Traffic Rank gone stagnant? Seems my site has not changed in over a week, same for DP and a few others... Anybody got a clue as to why? I thought it updated about every 3 days or so...
It depends on whether or not people using the alexa.com toolbar are visiting your website I beleive. I have noticed that over the past 6 months alexa rankings on my sites have dropped dramatically even though they have grown dramatically and the only answer I could get from other users was that less people are using the alexa.com toolbar.. Not sure how accurate that information is but it sounds reasonable. Drew.
I have never seen it update daily... and I don't see why it has been the same for at least 10 days now, I would expect at least a little roll, one way or the other. Are you sure you mean Traffic Rank and not reach or pageviews? Reach is showing changes, pageviews seem to be doing the same. Seems like since the Google backlink update, Alexa Traffic Rank has not changed. Alexa's 'sites linking in' changed at some point. Not that I find a whole lot of importance in Alexa's stats, but wonder the significance of what I am seeing. They admit anything outside of 100,000 is less accurate. And DP has been climbing steadily.
Traffic Rank for today column is what I was referring to. The overall Traffic Rank for the site gets updated once a week or so (at least based on my observation).
Why do you care? It's a meaningless number anyway... strictly entertainment value and even then only for the easily amused or extremely boref...
Totally agree, the majority of stats come through alexa toolbar users, and i hardly here anyone saying they use one so...
yes, my alexa rating at www.parentpages.co.uk hasn't changed for weeks even though my unique hits has increased. does anyone know why? i want to get under the million so i get a graph!
Sure, it is pretty much meaningless, but it supposedly goes into ranking on some search engines, and they have a partnership with Google. (Does Google? I don't know.) With their feeds, getting a higher Traffic Rank (and I am talking about the 3 month average, what you see on the bar and on the site in a search for the domain) means that more sites will pick you up, which means more one-way links for nada.
I'm not sure where you heard that but I know of nothing at all that would support the claim. And any search engine giving any relevance to it at all would be highly suspect, in my opinion. If you install the Alexa tool bar on your own system and visit your home page, refresh the page a dozen times or so with the tool bar active and watch the numbers climb. How useful is that as a measure of anything whatsoever about that page?
Yup. There's even boosters out there you can download for it. Search engines wouldn't allow that (not Google-esque ones) it would destroy their relevance.
I do use the Alexa toolbar. The rankings havent changed for last 10+ days I think. Definitely Alexa can be manipulated, but only to an extent. It is easy to break into top 100000. But I dont think you can go beyond top 5000 just by yourself. If everyone starts using the Alexa toolbar, their rankings would become much more reliable.
Which all do you find useful...I use Alexa and Google. Alexa is not very reliable , but does give us an idea what kind of traffic the site has. When I first came to DP , the bar showed a rank of 488.... instantly I knew I had come to a good site.
The day I have to rely on any toolbar, especially one as flawed as Alexa, to tell me whether a site is good or bad is the day I hang up my mouse forever....
Any site that manages to be in top 1000 of Alexa has to have an above average content... friendship, dating etc sites excluded..they get high traffic coz of the niche they are in. That a site is good or bad is a matter of personal opinion.... but if it is getting lots of users .. I wouldnt mind spending a few minutes extra exploring it.
Offhand, I don't remember where I read it, but supposedly Amazon bought it to feed traffic data to A9. I doubt that they would do so, as it can be gamed easily, but perhaps it could break a tie or something... I guess what I am wondering is are they fixing it? Will it become more relevant? Is it too late to change public opinion, should they do so? About the same time it went stagnant, Google updated backlinks, I noticed some change in Google for 301 redirects and a dropping of many more cached 302 redirects, some banning by Google, and curiosity as to the possibility that Alexa traffic rank not updating was perhaps somehow related kicked in. Probably just a coincidence. I was hoping maybe someone caught something out there I didn't. At any rate, something is up... even if it is just neglect of the site. Maybe it is getting sold again or something.