Hi Everyone, 1) My site is ranked 376 000 on Alexa and it is 4 months old. Since the beginning of January, I went from ranking of 500 000(january 1st) to 376 000 (today) I check my google analytics and it is stating that I am getting more or less 300 hits a day. Is this normal? It seems pretty low. 2) I am also discussing with other people who have much lower ranking than me and have double number of hits on Google analytics How is this possible?
You may as well believe in your horoscope in the Daily Paper as believe Alexa rank - both of them are made up to provide entertainment, not serious data collection
Google Analytics is only a final step You cannot get blood from a stone Nothing is for nothing What links have you built Also have you have ever heard of the Google sandbox effect Its hard and consistent work that pays Reminds me of all the people who buy nice sites on ebay and think that once the site is up the money just starts rolling in Get to work
It used to be that Alexa only counted people with the Alexa toolbar installed. I don't know if it still works like that, but it would explain it.
Just when you think you have google figured out, you don't. Alexa isn't the bible so don't pray to it. continue to take action and you will get what you deserve!
same thing is happening to me too but I just ignore it...my alexa keeps on going down consistently for the past 3 weeks but no changes in my google analytics. I think google analytics only captures less than 20% of your actual traffic
If that's the case, then you haven't installed it properly. Analytics is a much much more reliable tool than Alexa - it's recording actual traffic - Alexa is just making an assumption based on visits with a toolbar.
it has also confirmed that my overall hits for december to febeuary was about 98000 unique visitors/400k page hits. my analytics cant capture 10% of, I am sure it was installed properly. feedjit and statscounter can not also detect most of my traffic, so I am curious why am I not getting accurate results from these services, my other blog has similar situation but is self hosted and alexa does not captures most of its traffic, it remained 1.3M rank and never changes...although in my awstats, it gets 3k/day unique visitors on the same period, take note, myt blogger hosted blog gets a little less traffic something like 1k-2k per day and its alexa rank has been dropping steadily ever since, but the trends in google, feedjit remains the same
I still don't understand how does the Alexa work. But Google Analytics is clearly, because we embed some codes to our site. and i think, google analytics is more reliable. but if we have our hosted site, maybe we can check it wieh Awstats or maybe we make our own hit trackers.