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Alexa ranking doesn't mean alot. I am a ranking of 22,000 or so but I only get 400 to 800 vistors a day. But because they are all geek wienies and have Alexa toolbar instaledl I have a low Alexa Ranking.

Also you can buy software and services that will pump up your Alexa ranking so I won't trust in it to much.

 

Bob, if I would have e-shop and if I would get between 400-800 visitors and if only 5% of these visitors would buy products, I would be satisfied buddy.
22,000 ranking is not bad If you can use it wisely

 

It used to be easy to manipulate the alexa traffic. All one would have to do is keep visiting your own site over and over to boost it. I don't know if they have changed that now though.

 

Me neither gazelle, but I am talking about real visitor statistics.
If that alexa graph shows real statistics like as Bob said, that woud be benefit for website owner.

 

Estrange: Well I worked first to build my site as an information site. The best thing I did was come up the pagerank page that tracks pagerank and shows the history for the last 4 years. I am not working on putting up the best web directory list that is out there.

Slowing I am moving my site to be profitable. I am selling ads on it and offering the quality affilates that I use myself. Hostdeal offers $50US a sign up, Arelis gives $15 a product sold, Uncover the Net give $10 per sign up, the SEO Book gives $30 per sale. I use them all myself, have puchased them all myself and I like them all. So I am offering my visitors quality products.

Now my site makes $500 plus a month which isn't very much but its a start.

But to get traffic you have to offer something and rank well. I am working on both of those slowly.

I am now working on "wow" design make over for my site so that it will look more attractive. I still have to get my blog going, and I am adding a directory started block to my front page that will point to the new directory I am opening up.

Its slow hard work to make everything come together but if you keep working at it things come together sooner or later.

 

I wouldn't mind it if I had a site of my own that made me 500 bucks a month

 

WebGazelle: Offer free SEO advise, write some content, work on getting traffic. $500 is not very much for a site to bring in.

 

I have one under constuction and should be up next week. Waiting out the sandbox is going to suck though.

 

WebGazelle: Well many if not most people are looking for link popularity and PR vote when they submit to a web directory. You will not rank with Google and hence you will get less traffice but there is Yahoo and now MSN. I am very glad to see another major search engine appear. This will take away to some degree from the dominance that Google has. So I wouldn't worry to much.

 

I am not concerned about google. I know that after the wait time for the sandbox that I will see a new surge of traffic and that will be a reason to party. Till then I will use traffic from Yahoo and MSN.