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Thanks for the Update Yaro. I am going to have to agree that their ranking algo is something along the lines of what Jon said.

Another reason alexa rank may have gone up, specifically on this site, is the context of the content. In your “how-to-boost-your-alexa -ranking-in-one-easy-step” article, you are certainly going to generate SOME traffic from people looking to increase their alexa rank. Do you think these people will have the toolbar installed? Of course!

I’ll tell you what… next week, I’m going to buy a few brand new garbage domain names and run some tests. A 2 week period should do it.

Alexa rankings are flawed, flawed, flawed!

It’s bias towards a certain demographic, numbers are heavily estimated, and the results produce an incredibly large long-tail graph. Well I’m sure that all of this has been mentioned over and again.

I completly agree on Alexa being an unreliable metric with an uncalled for impact on site’s potential income… but other than Google PR, and Technorati backlink count, there are few publically accessable metrics for site’s performance.

Hi Yaro,

I added the alexa widget to my CommerceCubes site and in the span of 9 days it dropped from 661,704 to 533,580 which is roughly a 24% change. It seems to keep dropping too but then again i am just doing a lot more writing these days. I am taking the long term view on this though because i am not building CommerceCubes to sell but rather to share information and network with and also i am looking to get involved in a few affiliate programs in the next few months.

But i plan to be running it five years down the road because its just a lot of fun. Thanks again for the great tips (your site always has a ton)… Talk soon Yaro,

Luc

Hi Yaro,

As my blog stands currently i mainly write articles in relation to things i am reading, or doing so it urges me to keep learning and sharing those experiences (or at least thats the way that i see it).

Just wondering if you could recommend any affiliates to have a look at? I’ve been doing a searching but haven’t found any that are that interesting. Talk soon Yaro,

Lucas
PS. Five years of Blogging is a long time… i’ll settle for writing articles on a day to day basis for now

On my blog network I have a site that is a mirror of the standard setup. I use it only for testing updates and plugins etc. It has no incoming links and no traffic except me.
When I first install the Search Status Firefox toolbar it had an Alexa ranking of about 5,000,000. Today, rougly 5 weeks later, it is 500k; so that about proves the flaw in Alexa.
But, even though is is heavily skewed, it remains the best traffic indicator on the web. It would be a killer business idea to come up with something better.

Do you think Alexa is making a difference where the users are coming from?

I think that Alexa does not count visitors from google.com or images.google.com in the same way.

I added the Alexa widget to my blog and saw some improvement to my AlexaRank. I think it is mostly the spam bots that are responsible for most of my traffic so now they are finally contributing something to my blog. By the way, have you tried video blogging on YouTube? This is something I am really into.

Hi Yaro

I too am an Australian Entrepreneur making a living from the web, I have just launched the SEO communities equivalent of DIGG, this story is featured there.

http://www.search4geeks.com

Like to keep in touch, thanks

Mike Nicholls
Chief Geek

I think Alexa is very open about how they rank sites and admit that they do have biases. They even list some of them here.

(scroll down to “Some Important Disclaimers”)

I asked Alexa about their button and their rankings which you can read more about here.

Hi Yaro,

Thank you very much for the Alexa tip, caveats and all!

However, for those of us who have yet to migrate off Blogger.com (yeah, I know, get a real domain… ;-), and have very little traffic yet (doh!), the Alexa button script appears to default to the ranking for blogger.com overall.

While I am of course exceedingly happy that I’m thus ranked 15 for no good reason (no stats worth mentioning) ;-), it’s not immediately obvious to me yet how I can get Alexa to monitor an individual blog at blogspot.com — if it can do that at all.

I’ll keep poking around for a solution (and maybe increasing traffic will be its own solution?), but it’s obviously not going to tell me much of anything until Alexa’s scripts can trace individual blogs off big blog services.

FYI.

-Frank

Michael Fleischner has written an interesting article about different strategies for improving your Alexa Rank.

Although I understand that an improved Alexa rank is simply vanity for some websites, for others - such as those who sell text links, an improved Alexa could be something that is extremely significant.

For those people, I thing it’s really worthwhile reading Michael’s article. I particularly like his thoughts on redirects.

Just by use of on any software who visits your website urls, like sitmap generators, you just get a boom in Alexa Ranking. Page views is a week factor in alexa rankings.

Hi Yaro,

Thank you very much for the Alexa tip

Will test, i am testing a method using the redirect from alexa to your website homepage, get the url alexa gives to you, put it into your homepage in browser settings, and so far it seems to work well

My site has been up for 2 and a half weeks now, alexa ranks started at 5,532,520, Check the sites rank so far after this method

Excellent topic!! Im going to test the theory out and will post back in a couple of weeks with my findings.