Comments on: Improving Your Alexa Ranking

By: John

John — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:45:06 +0000

Alexa isn’t a great measure of site traffic as they only count visits from people using their toolbar (which is far from everyone) and the type of user they have tends to be skew the results.

That said if you’ve got enough traffic it’s an interesting indication of how you compare to other sites but unless you make money from ReviewMe or Text Link Ads or the like it has no value other than curiosity.

By: Phil Connolly

Phil Connolly — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:16:36 +0000

My site seems to have dropped off Alexa. It was slowly starting to increase and now it just shows zero.

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By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:04:45 +0000

Matt is spot on regarding the Alexa redirect. Although I mentioned it in my article, it’s not something I’ve ever considered implementing.

By: John

John — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:32:32 +0000

Great site you have there Matt. I have to admit I don’t use the redirects myself and would only suggest using them in forum signatures etc where they are going to be nofollowed anyway.

By: Lord Matt

Lord Matt — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:16:39 +0000

God, no. Don’t use redirects. That’s like putting nofollow on all your backlinks (almost). I realy can not recomend that at all. However, if you were to open an iframe with the source as a alexa redirected page on your site (low content mayby html and a graphic) then you are effectivly telling alexa when people visit. Check my alex reach over the last few weeks for proof if this is a good method.