How many of you have tried Alexa traffic widgets? I was told that if I place an Alexa widget on my site, it will boost the rank. So I have just started an experiment. I have placed a widget on my sites footer. Starting Alexa rank is 338,947. If this Really works, i should get a better rank within about 3 or 4 days. How many of you have tried this before to me? I'll update you with my progress. Until that please share your experience.
After 24 hours, No change in 3 Months average (Its still 338,947). 1 month average is 304,313. Its an improvement of 17,019. Traffic Rank in LK is 614.
After 48 Hours, 3 Months average is 335,920, 1 month average is 301,606. There is a slight improvement. But i feel its not due to the widget. Looks like widget doesn't help to improve Alexa rank.
Alexa widgets do help to improve the alexa rank as alexa rank is based on the data collected from the alexa widgets so if your website is being accessed by visitors who have alexa toolbar/widgets installed in their browser, your alexa rank would be improved on a very good pace.
Alexa ranking works on following algorithm: It has practically nothing to do with the number of traffic on your website. It is concerned with the number of people that has alexa toolbar installed in their browser. So if you have more traffic with alexa toolbar, your ranking is better. For example, if you are getting only 1000 unique visitors a day, but 400 of them has the alexa toolbar installed then you would have better ranking then a site getting 10000 unique visitors and none of them has alexa toolbar installed.
I didn't remove widgets since the day i embedded. Now its almost 22 days. 1 month rank is 308,391 3 months rank is 308,210 Rank in LK is 607 Looks like Alexa widget wont help you to increase the rank.