Comments on: Alexa Rating Changes?

By: Gireesh Sharma

Gireesh Sharma — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:48:02 +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

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:53:08 +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.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:51:41 +0000

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

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:23:03 +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?

By: Luxury Real Estate Blog

Luxury Real Estate Blog — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:27:50 +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.

By: Grizzly

Grizzly — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:40:21 +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.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:34:26 +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.

By: Grizzly

Grizzly — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:24:07 +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.

By: multippt

multippt — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:57:56 +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.

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