DragonBlogger.com is at the verge of breaking below 50k on the International Alexa rating and has a US Alexa Rating of just under 16.5k which has me thrilled to think that I might have been able to break below 50k with in my first year and a half blogging. With 20 people kind enough to provide reviews of my blog on Alexa, I continue to try and create original and useful content for my readers in a variety of topics and areas of interest.
I still think the Alexa rating is a bit misleading as not all people use the Alexa toolbar on their browser so it is a decent measure of your sites traffic but not a complete picture. I also know based on geographical analytics of my blog traffic that I need to write more content and somehow reach more international audience from Australia and Asia where my Alexa rankings are the weakest and which have a huge impact on your overall Alexa rating.
I can’t figure out how Alexa tracks backlinks though because according to Google WebMaster Tools I have thousands of sites linking into my blog, and just over four hundred show up on Alexa.com SiteInfo for my blog. If anyone knows how Alexa tracks backlinks and any tips for improving Alexa rating besides just telling users to install the Alexa toolbar, my ears and eyes are open.
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December 13th, 2009 at 7:18 am
You can improve it more by placing the Alexa Ranking widget on your blog. I have placed it and it really looks like that it helps in improving alexa ranking.
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December 13th, 2009 at 8:10 am
Why would placing the widget help with Alexa ranking? What logic is there since most of the badges are from 3rd party companies and not Alexa itself? Just curious if that is just guessing, or some explanation behind that.
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December 13th, 2009 at 9:02 am
TechJaws once had a post about inconsistencies in Alexa ranking from an actual event asking his friend whose Alexa rank is lower than his but with greater actual number of visitors per day.
I can always recall what PPP has advised prior to switching to InPostlinks that using the Alexa toolbar can contribute to rank boost.
I don’t really rely on Alexa stats pretty much, I’d say I trust Google Analytics more.
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December 13th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Right, remember that Advertisers cannot see your Google Analytics, they can only judge and base your blog popularity based on Alexa, RealRank, PageRank, RSS Subscribers and other metrics that they can actually see. Alexa is inaccurate to some extent as it requires the user to actually have the Alexa toolbar installed and tracking, people without the Alexa toolbar who hit your blog don’t provide any benefit to Alexa rating.
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December 13th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Wahoo! You’re showing up at 47,325 on my Alexa toolbar. Congrats! See? Hard work pays off.
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December 13th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Typhoon is right, if you place the Alexa widget on your website it will work out website hits, demographics etc and help inmprove you Alexa ranking, I have the widget on my site and my ranking has vastly improved my traffic rank from around the 100,000 to around 44,000
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December 14th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Wow, that’s some achievement indeed! I’ve been trying to break through to 50k. Now that I changed my domain, it was like starting all over again
I was lucky to be able to get under 150k in a month under the new domain though
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December 15th, 2009 at 6:51 am
Under 150k is no small feat, I have a blog up for 14 months and is still over 250k
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December 15th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Correct. Alexa rating is not accurate. I have blog with lower traffic but higher rank in Alexa.
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January 23rd, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Alexa revamped the way they arrive at their rankings, to include “data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources.â€
Still I don’t consider it to be a very accurate reliable measure of traffic.
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