SEO Tycoon

**alexbill** · 03:07 AM

I started to do really good in rankings. Using Alexasurf to increase rankings. Thats not wrong because people surf with the toolbar. I also submited to tons, and tons of directories, tried to email webmasters to link exchange with me, and even have tons of websites that under one domain which are all optimized. It's like a mall on the internet. You know a photos website, directory website, a forum, and more.

Now my rankings went way up for the first time, then I released tons of water like a river damed up by Spending tons of credits on Alexasurf and Submited to even more directories (tons and tons again) and then I get this:

Today 1 wk. Avg. 3 mos. Avg. 3 mos. Change
325,650 1,265,287 155,115

down 5,550,775

Does this mean I will fall on all rankings. I just recently discovered some sites say my google pagerank is 0, and some still say 3. It's like im being banished, or punished by google, alexa, and other websites. What did I do wrong!

Whats wrong with having multiple sites. CNet, webhosts, and other huge corporations don't lose ranks or get banned for multiple sites.

Do I have to pay Alexa thousands of dollars, Do I have to be a rich corporation just to even make it big anymore?

Im not profit.

**praveen** · 04-04-2006, 03:29 AM

this is taken from a popular seobook's author blog

i hope this is clear and you understand it as well

Quote:

Over the last few days my Alexa has doubled from around 13,400 to around 6,800. Wow I am great. Not really!
If you looked at my actual server logs you would see that traffic has been fairly constant over the past week with only a small uptick in traffic of about 5 percent. Why the huge increase in Alexa rankings then?
More new webmasters using the Alexa browser finding my site. The three things that helped boost the number of new webmasters reading this site are:

mentioning the hidden links on FT - WebProNews linked to my site
my site ranking for Corey Rudl's death, and his friends recently putting out a newsletter saying he died
About.com WebSearch recently listing my blog as a top SEO blog

Many new webmasters get information from each of those channels. Just a few people from each browsing my site with an Alexa toolbar caused the rankings to nearly double, which is a huge change on a logarithmic scale for a site in the top 10,000. Traffic has not changed much, sales are about the same, and if you looked just at Alexa things would look a bit brighter than they really are.
Here is what I recently wrote in my ebook:
Alexa is widely tooted as a must use tool by many marketing gurus. The problems with Alexa are:

Alexa does not get much direct traffic and has a limited reach with it’s toolbar
a small change in site visitors can represent a huge change in Alexa rating
Alexa is biased toward webmaster traffic
many times new webmasters are only tracking themselves visiting their own site

Why do many marketing hucksters heavily promote Alexa? Usually one of the following reasons:

ignorance
if you install the Alexa toolbar and then watch your own Alexa rating quickly rise as you surf your own site it is easy for me to tell you that you are learning quickly and seeing great results, thus it is easy to sell my customers results as being some of the best on the market
if many people who visit my site about marketing install the Alexa toolbar then my Alexa rating would go exceptionally high
the marketers may associate their own rise in success with their increasing Alexa ranking although it happens to be more of a coincidence than a direct correlation

A lower Alexa number means a greater level of traffic, and the traffic drops off logarithmically. You can fake a good Alexa score using various techniques, but if it shows your rankings in the millions then your site likely has next to no traffic. Alexa by itself does not mean that much, but it simply provides a rough snapshot of what is going on. It can be spammed, but if a site has a ranking in the millions then it likely has little traffic. It is also hard to compare sites in different industries. For example, if I created a site about weight loss there would be many more people searching for it than a site about knitting. Also, you shouldn’t forget the webmaster bias the tool has, which means my site will have a higher Alexa rating than it should.

**alexbill** · 03:56 AM

Excuse me.

It's not the traffic

I get tons of visitors. Lots from trafficlove banner exchange, now sending tons of hits through Alexasurfs autosurf system, getting tons of submissions to my directory. I am submited in tons of directories. It's not traffic problems.

It's like somebodys trying to destroy my website. It's almost like a hacker is making me look like a spammer to totally damage my rankings.

Could it be a grudge from a adult website. They have been keep trying to seep through in my family friendly websites, even submited their website and never followed the rules. I sent them A email telling them why they were not accepted and Now this is happening. It is strange, and suspicious?

I have a search engine also and only indexes websites that are my directory, free stuff, or sponser sites to keep out adult content. Also they were typing key words like b adword to get adult sites into my family friendly search engine. I tried to have blacklists, and filters but nothing will work.

**praveen** · 04-04-2006, 04:09 AM

let me get this straight, just because your alexa rankings went down you think your rankings or whatever will be affected???

Quote:

Alexa is widely tooted as a must use tool by many marketing gurus. The problems with Alexa are:

Alexa does not get much direct traffic and has a limited reach with it’s toolbar
a small change in site visitors can represent a huge change in Alexa rating
Alexa is biased toward webmaster traffic
many times new webmasters are only tracking themselves visiting their own site

please try to understand it in its entire context and do not look at the traffic posted.

Alexa is crap. anyone can fake it.

what matters is your traffic and your sales

as long as you have a good traffic, thats what matters

dont sweat it cos alexa rankings went down.