Comments on: Alexa Rank Update Problem and Workaround

By: Vikas Kapadiya

Vikas Kapadiya — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:06:38 +0000

i have over 9k pageview perday but my alexa ranking is too high … why they don’t update their system

By: Afghanistan Online

Afghanistan Online — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:33:43 +0000

Alexa ranking does not even count. If you want to get better Alexa rank, you can simply install the Toolbar and refresh your website as much as you can and you’ll see a major change in your Alexa rank. A better way to check on your Traffic Data/Size is using Google Analytics.

Thanks

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:46:29 +0000

There are individuals and companies that do make alexa ranking some sort of a reference point. Well, maybe their are considering it as an “estimate”. Anyway, nice discussion. I really got something. Thanks!

By: Holy Events

Holy Events — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:59:11 +0000

Rank is frozen yet again, starting Friday of last week. It would be nice if they updated their blog to let people know what they are doing. But we were pleasantly surprised when we saw our rankings shoot up 200k when we got the Top 1 million sites spreadsheet! Awesome!

By: getrising.com

getrising.com — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:41:57 +0000

Alexa’s traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users and data collected from other, diverse sources over a rolling 3 month period.
A site’s ranking is based on a combined measure of reach and pageviews.
Reach is determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day.
Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site.
However, multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are counted as a single pageview.

Therefore, if someone wants to boost his alexa rank, he must increase his technology oriented visitors base (webmasters, technology geeks etc.), because these are the people who most probably have the alexa toolbar installed….

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:57:19 +0000

Alexa ranking is mainly based on two parameters:
- Page hits
- Reach (i.e. number of pages per visit)

Unless you improve the second part (that is the reach) alexa rank won’t improve. As much as possible you should get the reader to visit one more page than the landing page at least

By: Hiwaar

Hiwaar — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:28:18 +0000

My site rank within alexa remains the same; this is since its very start? our Google pr is rising, but alexa is not even shows backlinks/ any advice, please?

By: Rahul Malik

Rahul Malik — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:01:28 +0000

Hello ,

My site’s Alexa Rank has also frozen from the last 4-5 days…

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:23:09 +0000

@tim, of course it’s no perfect solution. However, you understand how Alexa works. It considers (1) total pages viewed and (2) the reach or number of pages viewed per visit. and this is considered on the basis of a three months average.

For example, Let us assume that site A has 10000 visits per month where as site B has 20000. If site A’s reach is say 2.5 and site B’s is 1, definitely site A has a better (i.e. lower) Alexa rank!

And, Alexa is a service by Amazon not Google Probably if more an more people start using Google Toolbar or Google Analytics they will be able to come up with a traffic ranking system as well.

By: tim

tim — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:40:21 +0000

I have proof that alexa is reporting a lot but not the truth. Constantly raising GoogleAnalytics. Same thing for StatPress and even mint. Alexa drops down 40k today!

Ok it might be that the whole web received more traffic in the last 2 months but i don’t believe in that, sorry. Why on earth doesn’t Google have a tool like this. They are in the know of almost everything!

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:20:02 +0000

Reply from Alexa support team arrive yesterday…

Dear Ajith,
Thank you for your question.
We strive to update the data on our traffic details pages frequently.
Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, there may at times be a delay in the display of data. The data are still being tracked, but may not be displayed immediately. It has now been resolved, and we lament any inconvenience this may have caused you.
We appreciate and thank you for your interest in Alexa.
Best regards,
Alexa Internet Customer Service

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:31:23 +0000

@SkyXavier, you are right… Good content will fetch in traffic, subscribers and ranks… The idea of this post was to share the interim arrangement before the Alexa updated ranks start appearing.

By: Sky Xavier

Sky Xavier — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:28:17 +0000

yeah its a problem with the alexa toolbar. but for me i am not going into deep when it comes to alexa. for my all other sites rightnow i mainly concentrate on the content because content will surely bring visitors and that will automatically boost your rank in alexa or any other site. what say Ajith?

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:52:51 +0000

@Kim, ~~good to know that your homepage rank is back to original after a little hide n seek…~~ Wrong reply, mistook it for PR and thought about your PR issues in the recent past…

You are right Kim, people tend to stop thinking about ranks once they are up there

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:29:54 +0000

I didn’t notice that it hadn’t updated Maybe I thought my rank had stayed exactly the same. I agree with Shirley – when you have a good rank it’s not big deal but when you don’t have a good rank you do everything you can to reduce it.

Great find with the csv file.

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By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:20:11 +0000

@Shirley, haha that’s a general tendency right? Mostly people forget where they came from. On the other hand, sometimes those who never get good ranks claim that they don’t bother about it. I have read it a thousand times on forums – especially on the PR matter… Reminds me of the Aesope’s fox-grape story

@Nihar, well if you are not exposing the GA stats to advertisers they go by Alexa or compete… Once they give you ads, they could then monitor click throughs etc. But Alexa still has ‘some’ amount of acceptance.

By: Nihar

Nihar — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:46:40 +0000

I have used alexa site to check mostly other sites traffic. I have never concentrated on that. Is alexa ranking a good pointer? Does advertisers use this to guage the sites traffic?Nihar's last blog post... How to get Windows 7 Beta Activation Keys

By: Shirley

Shirley — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:15:50 +0000

Yeh, people who have a ‘decent’ rank generally talk about how unimportant it is. lol. But when I was in the millions, I definitely did all I could to lower my rank.

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By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:20:20 +0000

@Kurt, yep it may not be accurate and it can be manipulated. But at the same time, a lot fo people – including sponsors and advertisers – still use it and consider it as a shortlisting mechanism.

@Shirley, I guess it is not having a major impact on blogs this time, unlike the update in April last year. You can keep your cool Alexa is more like getting those CMM or SEI standards. Big companies don’t bother about it much but mid size and upcoming ones need to prove their worth and potential so they care about it.

@Frenchy, you are right… as I mentioned in the comment above, I don’t see a much bigger impact this time.

@Donace, 9 out of 10 say they don’t care about it, but they are actually setting an Alexa target or goal for the year

@qarla, congrats on getting into the top million blogs!

@Melvin, please check your reach values. With the same amount of traffic if people are viewing more pages per visit, your Alexa rank will be going up. That’s the reason why my Alexa rank is higher than some of the bigger and better blogs in this niche.

@Dewaji, this was mainly a work around for those who were impatiently waiting for seeing their next ranks… Experienced people like you may not bother about it as much as an upcoming blogger does.

@Forsaken, you are right. Amazon invested in Alexa and maintaining it as well to make sure that some kind of information is available about all websites in this world in terms of its reach and traffic. They are improving it continuosly but as we all know it can be hacked as well. So even if it’s ‘crap’ until a proper replacement is found, we may still use it

@Harish, that’s exactly what we discussed in this post

@Madhur, thanks man… In fact, the more experienced you get the lesser focussed you are on these ranks, right?

@Niche, well… partly right. As I mentioned above, unless a proper replacement is available, the current crap may be useful to many

@Felix, exactly – Your advertisers and sponsors first go by certain open metrics that are available – such as Alexa, Feedcount, Technorati etc. Only after that shortlisting process they may go after detailed server statistics and tracker results such as GA.

Thanks everyone for your views. I have been busy with a couple of other things that I had to reply a day late. Sorry for that…

By: Wei Liang | Earn Money Online

Wei Liang | Earn Money Online — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:39:42 +0000

Alexa rank has been one of the key gauge for potential advertisers of a blog since they do not have access to our stats tracking account. Thus, I think there is still value for looking closely at our Alexa rank should we want to monetize our sites through private ad sales.

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