The Other Search Engines

**wish71** · 10-12-2007, 02:53 PM

Hi there

I have noted that my websites are very well ranked in yahoo and google, the daily visit are quite good (best in years) but my rank in alexa is very very low and going down.... how this is possible?

How to have a good rank in alexa?

**gringo** · 10-12-2007, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by wish71

I have noted that my websites are very well ranked in yahoo and google, the daily visit are quite good (best in years) but my rank in alexa is very very low and going down.... how this is possible?

Because alexa doesn't report on anything useful. You just get traffic stats for the very small number of people who have the alexa toolbar installed.

The bit I bolded is the important stuff

**kenang82** · 10-13-2007, 03:55 AM

Yes. There are a lot of biases with alexa ranking system. But is it the only web ranking system we have?

**wish71** · 10-14-2007, 03:23 AM

Thank you for the answers guys... regretfully many people consider alexa in their decisions related to a website.

**chrishirst** · 10-15-2007, 05:23 AM

If they are that dumb you don't want to be doing any kind of business with them!!

**thegateways** · 10-15-2007, 11:49 PM

Most of the time the alexa ranking are manipulated, there are many ways to influence the ranking but consider more on building regular targeted traffic that will help you eventually.

**x3mario** · 10-20-2007, 12:07 PM

Don't to much rely on alexa....It is only a estimated traffic...

**wish71** · 10-20-2007, 03:00 PM

Sure....

Thank you for the answers...... anyway now is getting better........... my new main page will get more results on search engine!!!

Already in the first page of Yahoo and Google for some keys

**ADAM Web Design** · 10-20-2007, 03:01 PM

Never mind Alexa. Don't rely on any external metrics, especially those based on toolbars. As soon as webmasters and SEO wannabes discover them, they attempt to manipulate the rankings in any way possible.

Here's an example of just how easy it is to raise your Alexa ranking (and accomplish nothing in the process.)

Here's a Googler's (quite correct) interpretation of Alexa data.

Pretty well all other metrics (PageRank, Compete.com, Technorati Authority) that are external are subject to the same idiotic manipulation.

**audiomad** · 10-20-2007, 05:00 PM

I have had my traffic go up and up and my alexa rank goes down and down its crap there is no logic to what is happing only that alexa is crap.

I got my rank up to 120,000 now its 220,000

**sizzler_chetan** · 05-05-2008, 06:49 AM

Alexa is an inaccurate tool to check website's traffic.

Anyways having their script code used in every page of yours will increase your page loads with alexa and this can help in increasing the rankings.

**Plugin-Developer** · 05-05-2008, 11:00 PM

To get a good rank in Alexa, appeal to the sort of people that have the Alexa toolbar installed (like bloggers and other webmasters). However, I've heard that Alexa isn't really a great way to judge a web site. I'd really be going by how well your goal is being accomplished.

**bizcredit** · 05-07-2008, 03:16 AM

Get alexa toolbar and get lots of hits to your website may increase your alexa ranks

**sizzler_chetan** · 05-08-2008, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by bizcredit

Get alexa toolbar and get lots of hits to your website may increase your alexa ranks

Not lately, after the algorithm has changed.

**degreedropout** · 05-11-2008, 11:16 AM

Alexa calculates based on the searched done by people who are using Alexa tool bar...so it produces the inaccurate ranks...but its the only tool recognized to give some rank for a website based on its traffic

Recently alexa had announced that it has changed its algorithm for allotting rank

**sizzler_chetan** · 05-11-2008, 04:21 PM

I am pretty sure that lately the new algorithm in Alexa ranking has included Search engine searches along with the toolbar using visitors into consideration, for ranking websites.
Well lets see!

**hem** · 05-13-2008, 03:36 AM

Recently they have modified the algorithm. Before it they rank a website if a user open the website using alexa toolbar. At this time you need to increase more visitors to gain better rank.

**WebHostAdvisor** · 06-15-2008, 01:58 AM

If you are getting great traffic I wouldn't worry about alexa much.

**Jaclyn15** · 04:30 AM

Hey! Alexa ranking is not really accurate measure of site traffic. If your site is new, ranking within 1,000,000 is not bad. Top 100,000 ranking as being successful.

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**jesterx** · 07-25-2008, 05:51 AM

yes I would tend to agree there Jaclyn15

I wish that **** site was a bit more live and up-to-date