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Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Gireesh Sharma — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:48:02 -0000

Even my website's ranking dropped, though by couple of thousands only.

www.empxtrack.com

Strangely, we are seeing a consistent increase in the number of unique visitors through Statcounter.com, the changes in Alexa ranking are slightly dis-aligned.

Wondering, how to make our visitors install Alexa Tool bar!!!

Gireesh

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Gireesh Sharma — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:48:02 -0000

Even my website's ranking dropped, though by couple of thousands only.

www.empxtrack.com

Strangely, we are seeing a consistent increase in the number of unique visitors through Statcounter.com, the changes in Alexa ranking are slightly dis-aligned.

Wondering, how to make our visitors install Alexa Tool bar!!!

Gireesh

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Beth — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:53:08 -0000

Their ranking system has changed. I had a slight spike 3 months ago but whatever they changed made me lose 78,000+ and they aren't saying where they are getting their "sources" from. My traffic has for the most part, remained steady. It's just another way to screw bloggers over.

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Beth — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:53:08 -0000

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

AndyBeard — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:51:41 -0000

You probably had a busy traffic period just over 3 months ago

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

AndyBeard — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:51:41 -0000

You probably had a busy traffic period just over 3 months ago

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Beth — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:23:03 -0000

I just noticed my Alexa went from 58,000 to 190,000 overnight. I had low traffic Monday and Tuesday, mostly due to the tax deadline I assume, but how can one blog drop that much in one day?

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Beth — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:23:03 -0000

I just noticed my Alexa went from 58,000 to 190,000 overnight. I had low traffic Monday and Tuesday, mostly due to the tax deadline I assume, but how can one blog drop that much in one day?

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Luxury Real Estate Blog — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:27:50 -0000

Yes, I have seen similar results in real estate blogs - even though I know the traffic to be increasing, the Alexa reach, ranking and traffic is going down.

This blog, about International Real Estate Investing is a case in point. Traffic doubled over 2 months, ranking and reach down.

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Luxury Real Estate Blog — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:27:50 -0000

Yes, I have seen similar results in real estate blogs - even though I know the traffic to be increasing, the Alexa reach, ranking and traffic is going down.

This blog, about International Real Estate Investing is a case in point. Traffic doubled over 2 months, ranking and reach down.

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Grizzly — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:40:21 -0000

Rob,

My Blogger blogs have had their own Alexa rankings for over a year. I'm not sure about comcast.net though - a possibility.

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Grizzly — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:40:21 -0000

Rob,

My Blogger blogs have had their own Alexa rankings for over a year. I'm not sure about comcast.net though - a possibility.

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Rob — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:34:26 -0000

I have noticed that alexa is breaking out blogger.com and comcast.net users to have their own alexa. Not sure how many power users these sites might have that would effect the top 10K of alexa sites, but this will surely effect higher numbers of alexa. These are the two that I noticed lately, I am sure there are more and I dont know when they started this, but it is surely part of the answer for why some of my alexa's dropped.

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Rob — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:34:26 -0000

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Grizzly — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:24:07 -0000

I'm not sure how many entrecard members there are these days but they totaled 3000 a while back and these folks have been skewing alexa's stats pretty hard. The system encourages up to 300 visits to each others sites a day - most using the alexa toolbar - and this has had the effect of placing 100's of these blogs in the top 100 since December. These are sites that get no traffic at all other than traffic from each other.

Most of us only get a percentage of toolbar users compared to our overall traffic - in my case 1 out of every 4 visitors roughly as most of my traffic is from the serp's. The entrecard people are getting 100% (a guess but probably fairly close) toolbar users. I can't help but think that a few thousand new blogs suddenly getting all 100-300 visitors a day using the toolbar would have an effect on the overall system.

Just a thought.

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Grizzly — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:24:07 -0000

Just a thought.

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

multippt — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:57:56 -0000

Alexa is known to be inaccurate. It isn't accurate enough since it measures only about 10% of your traffic. In addition, the traffic scale for Alexa is expressed as a percentage rather than in actual visitors. As a result, if the overall number of Internet users (or Alexa users) increase, your traffic will appear to decrease in Alexa even if you have the same amount of traffic as before.

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

multippt — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:57:56 -0000

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Titus Hoskins — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:00:06 -0000

My Alexa Rankings dropped suddenly while
my traffic logs/stats proved nothing had
changed. My monthly affiliate income has
actually gone up - it's the only stat I
am concerned about and the only one that
really matters.

However, I sometimes wonder how big a
factor "perception" plays in the whole
Internet game... the Alexa Rankings and
the Google PR number "perceived value"
rather than their actual worth/importance
could influence your outcome especially
if you're selling SEO services to naive
buyers/webmasters.

Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave...

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Titus Hoskins — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:00:06 -0000

Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave...

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Work at Home World — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:43:05 -0000

I have also noticed a sharp decline on many of my blogs and websites. One of them was in the top 100,000 just a couple months ago and now it's up to somewhere around 300,000. As far as I can tell I haven't actually had any decrease in traffic.

This is the same with the rest of my sites. Many of them were in the top 200,000 or so and none of them are even close to that right now.

Now that I think about it, I don't think any of my sites or blogs have lowered in alexa lately. They have all dropped and I know for a fact that some of them have actually gained traffic.

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

Work at Home World — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:43:05 -0000

This is the same with the rest of my sites. Many of them were in the top 200,000 or so and none of them are even close to that right now.

Now that I think about it, I don't think any of my sites or blogs have lowered in alexa lately. They have all dropped and I know for a fact that some of them have actually gained traffic.

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

dann404 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:07:46 -0000

BTW you've go so many tracking scripts it's no wonder to me why there are disparities.

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

dann404 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:07:46 -0000

BTW you've go so many tracking scripts it's no wonder to me why there are disparities.

Re: Alexa Rating Changes?

dann404 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:55:30 -0000

Alexa Rankings have changed to reach and page views. So for example you have visitors from all over the globe you will have high traffic numbers(low numbers).
It has gone global and if you want to see your stats for a specific country, you have to make the extra effort on their website to see how you rank in your countries of interest.
BTW Compete metrics are not counted from the Search Status Plugin, you must actually download the toolbar from Compete's website.