Comments on: Results of the AlexaRank Experiment

By: Fargham

Fargham — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:18:03 +0000

Website Ranking gets better after you start sing toolbar

By: Complete Web Solutions

Complete Web Solutions — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:42:34 +0000

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

By: Web Design Ireland

Web Design Ireland — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:30:19 +0000

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

By: Fargham

Fargham — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:03:42 +0000

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.

By: David Bain

David Bain — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:42:58 +0000

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.

By: Frank Sellin

Frank Sellin — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:03:25 +0000

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

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:42:05 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:38:15 +0000

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

By: Robert S. Robbins

Robert S. Robbins — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:04:08 +0000

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.

By: Miha

Miha — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:16:23 +0000

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.