Comments on: Experiment in Improving my Alexa Rank

By: Update on some metrics and some speedlinking at Randa Clay Design

Update on some metrics and some speedlinking at Randa Clay Design — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:32:39 +0000

[...] a month ago, I posted my intention to try and improve my Alexa rank. What did I do to improve it? Almost nothing really. I installed the Firefox plugin, SearchStatus, [...]

By: Thet

Thet — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:34:07 +0000

I got alexa widget and it is weird because it is giving me a rank of 16.

By: Randa Clay

Randa Clay — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:45:38 +0000

Something that looks like traffic? What kinds of things can you show them that “look like traffic”? I’m curious…

By: Don@AffiliateWatcher

Don@AffiliateWatcher — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:34:26 +0000

Some of the ReviewMe and PPP type sites use a variety of ways to judge what a post or link from your site is worth. Some use Technorati rankings, some use a combination of Technorati, Alexa and PR rankings to decide how much to pay a site.

If you want them to show you the money, you have to show them popularity and some traffic….or something that looks like traffic.

Don

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:55:28 +0000

It’s quite funny but my auto blog which has a Alexa ranking of 598,753 and has PR 3, gets the maximum attention from advertisers and sponsors as compared to my other blogs which have better Alexa and page rankings.

By: Randa Clay

Randa Clay — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:42:51 +0000

Alexa rank is just another statistic to report to potential advertisers. The better your rankings in things like Google and Alexa, the more you can hope to earn for ad spots. I really don’t know what kind of rankings bring in what kind of ad prices per month. I’m just preparing for the possibility of selling a couple of spots.

By: Anush

Anush — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:40:24 +0000

What is the purpose of improving your Alexa rank? Will it really increase your traffic?

I’m also curious about how much traffic you need for it to be worth it to put ads on the site. Does anyone have any idea?

By: qyo

qyo — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:30:24 +0000

i don’t like alexa.. and here in brazil nobody have the toolbar.. so the results aren’t good

By: Lucia

Lucia — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:56:40 +0000

I improved the alexa rank of my knitting blog from roughly 500,000 to roughly 178,000 in two months. It’s still dropping. So, I dropped down a factor of 2. The main thing was adding the widget.

Alexa is very, very bad at measuring knitting blog traffic because no one visiting knitting blogs uses the alexa tool bar. So, your results may not be as dramatic as mine!

By: Randa

Randa — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:37:29 +0000

@Owen – I’ve thought about PPP and probably won’t be doing that here. I would do sponsored reviews because I think it’s relevant to this blog, but so far I haven’t had any to choose from at ReviewMe.
@MedicineMan- thanks for all the good info. I appreciate hearing from people who are more familiar with Alexa than I am.
@Tara – thanks for that link to Y.Starak’s blog – some interesting stuff there, and somehow I hadn’t come across him yet.