lol, I barely put in any link building serps effort with www.animeseat.com and its pr4... ranking at http://alexa.com/search?q=animeseat.com 120k or something, was 105 before.. and it barely gets 1.5k uniques... also I know a site thats hosted at blogspot thats ranking about 45k... so yeah it's not that efficient.
Alexa is so inaccurate. If you get about 10-100 people to install the toolbar and browse to your site like 5 times a day each, you will rank top 100k pretty easily.
Install the toolbar and set your website to the browser home page. You can't put a figure on it so I don't know why people are; 7,000 uniques a day could probably get you into the top 15,000 - likewise it may not get you into the top 1,000,000. It depends how many of those 7,000 have the Alexa toolbar installed; and that may depend on who your market is... ...When all is said and done, Alexa is fairly useless. Colm
For those familiar with the BARB ratings system in the UK, Alexa is the website equivalent. My most popular site (in terms of numbers that is) is doing a six figure number for uniques, and a seven figure number for impressions, yet isn't in the top 200,000. I do keep an eye on Alexa, but I don't worry about it.
Right, of course.. a single webmaster with the toolbar installed could do that. I was talking generally.
Aside from installing the tool bar (and getting your friends to install it) you should add in the Alexa Rank buttons to you main page. You can find them here: http://alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup Anyone of them do, and from my understanding, they do help I did it for my site and my ratings certainly dropped. Another good way to increase your rank would be to spread around a few good redirects. http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.YOURSITE.com That will send people through Alexa to yoursite upping your rank with each hit. I'd assume the redirect does not help with google (or any other engine) but it will certainly help with Alexa. Maybe add it into your sig here for a few days to test it out Best of luck with lowering your Alexa Rank! Maybe you can get a t-shirt like mine: 0.00035% MY SITE ROCKS www.occultcorpus.com but that has your information on it
Alexa gets it's data from people using the Alexa toolbar, which are usually people who deal with SEO, so a site regarding food or whatever would most likley be rated much lower than an SEO site or a Google relaetd blog, beacuse the people who view that have the Alexa toolbar and those who dont, dont. basicly what im saying is that Alexa is useless.
I had a site that reached an Alexa rating of 70,000 before we even promoted it. It was inflated from myself and my developer logging in several times a day over a 6 month time period. I believe it can be used as a broad-stroke barometer to guesstimate traffic volume for potential biz dev partnerships and linking, but in no way is it a perfect system. www.compete.com also has some interesting data.