I have a game blog. I used to get around 1000+UV/day previously when my blog was at blogspot, my alexa rank then was 400k and deviating. Now, because of the changes in Search Engines or because of changing my blog to custom domain, my blog traffic literally halved. But to my surprise, my blogs reach in alexa is increasing and my rank now is 300k+ I don't know why this happened, but I think it is beacuse, the traffic from western countries has increased even though the over all traffic decreased a lot. I want to know whether I am missing some other factor.
It depends on how many of your visitors have the alexa toolbar installed. Perhaps the traffic that got nicked did not have the alexa toolbar. Alexa is not accurate for medium to small traffic sites. Anything that gets 10,000 + traffic most likely will see a more accurate alexa reading.
So I should finally conclude that the alexa rank change should not be associated with traffic stats or should not be taken care of mostly. The situation also leads to same conclusion too. Thanks.
Your traffic logs are the most accurate you would need. Why are you worrying about alexa rank? Are you going to make a website purchase based on alexa rank? Absolutely do not, if that is the case. You must see the real stats of a website before you decide to make a purchase.
This is really funny now. My blog's UV reached 1400 and PV reached 2400, thats thrice before and my alexa came down from 300k to 600k. So there must be really some other factor or there should be no point with it.
definitely there seems to be an essential factor behind this big difference.why will it suddenly go down to such low rank
alexa is not that precise .... compete and quantcast are much better, download the compete.com toolbar ... i use it everyday