Comments on: What Does Alexa Ranking Really Tell You?

By: Jadeslair

Jadeslair — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:59:52 +0000

I don’t pay that much attention to alexa, I did read on their website that they base a lot of informayion on the number of links from different websites. For a while one of my sites was gettOne of my sites gets lots of love from googfle as far as traffic and yet alexa gives it a low rank….

By: Mark Pack

Mark Pack — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:39:27 +0000

It was true years ago that Alexa used toolbar data only, but for a long time they’ve now publicly said they also take data from elsewhere.

So have you got any evidence that what you say is still true?

By: Blake Waddill

Blake Waddill — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:40:26 +0000

It seems like Alexa rank may be more complicated than just simply traffic. They include the stats like reach, page views, bounce rate, and time on page.

I think blog traffic is related to post frequency. While I haven’t been posting frequently, my traffic has naturally gone down, so my Alexa rank has suffered.

If I could keep the same traffic without changing my post frequency, I don’t think my Alexa rank would change. (Consider static sites that don’t have new content regularly, but still rank well)…

I do also wonder if backlinks matter since Alexa does record them…

By: Rohit Sane

Rohit Sane — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:52:47 +0000

Alexa just gives approximate idea of the traffic for a website. You cant compare it to actual metrics. It is just for basic comparison and Alexa can be fooled too. One of my blogs gets just 15 pageviews per day and it ranks 300k on alexa. Isn’t that great ranking?

By: consultant seo

consultant seo — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:17:19 +0000

Alexa ranking simply depends on the number of people who have downloaded the Alexa tool bar. If your visitors are not the type who have downloaded the toolbar, nor are they aware of Alexa, you’d get poor rankings in Alexa.

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:27:15 +0000

Ever so slowly crawling up the alexa latter. I tend to find quantcast a much better show and tell since it allows public traffic stats.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:19:15 +0000

I check my Alexa ranking regularly and compare it to my top 2 local competitors. I like that I can see what countries the visitors come from and the traffic ranking for my country. But since I am a local service provider I find the map overlay in Google Analytics far more helpful in seeing if I’m reaching my target area.

By: Penny Stocks

Penny Stocks — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:44:13 +0000

agree with what Harsh said and i have also personally saw many blogging related blogs getting good with Alexa ranking with its daily updates and huge traffic coming on their way. Such blogs receives traffic mostly of webmasters with Alexa toolbar in their browser and so ultimately increasing their Alexa rank.
Congrats for your Alexa boost ;)

By: Himanshu

Himanshu — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:29:40 +0000

Alexa rank is directly proportional to post frequency and I am totally agree with Harsh. Also I want to mention one point that Alexa rank may also depends on backlinks. More the backlinks, more traffic sources and good alexa rank. Its my analogy of last few months of blogging so never underestimate commenting on other blogs, it will help in boosting your alexa rank.

By: David | ilcantone.com

David | ilcantone.com — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:24:50 +0000

Great article.

I check my alexa rank regulary but I don’t think that is a reliable source of information. As you stated above, it only tracks the traffic which uses the Sparky add-on for firefox or the alexa toolbar.

See you Blake.