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

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.

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

(scroll down to “Some Important Disclaimers”)

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

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

My affiliate marketing results usually surprise me. Something sell over and over again, others sell nothing at all. I focus on affiliate marketing something that I actually care to write about, which ensures the targeting will be relevant.

Of course it’s even better if you use the product as well – in which case I usually do a product review because they rank really well in the search engines.

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

The continued growth after writing the articles may have been caused by Alexa toolbar users coming to this site for sure, but for the purpose of the initial experiment they don’t come into play.

I look forward to the results of your experiment too.

Yaro

That’s a good attitude to have and I hope your blog remains fun for the five years – that’s a long time!

Hopefully you can start making some money too so there are additional rewards to help with your motivation.

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

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.

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.