Alexa Ranking: 30-Day Results

by Andrea @ Savings Lifestyle on November 2, 2010

Alexa Ranking

Did you join in on the Alexa experiment last month? If so, now is the time to share the results in the comments!

To make it easy to compare your personal differences, please share:

  • Alexa Ranking at the start of the experiment.
  • Alexa Ranking today.

Big difference, huh? You see that you reduced your Alexa Ranking quite a bit just buy adding a Firefox Add-On. When I did this the first time many months ago, it reduced it by more than 50,000 places. It almost seemed impossible.  Which brings up some general questions about the weighting of this metric.

If you can drastically reduce your ranking by as much much as you did with one little tool, should it really hold that much weight with PR or other agencies we may work with?

On the flip, if it’s that easy to do, it doesn’t hurt to install the Firefox Add-On to try, right? It will increase your ranking that may in turn put you on the map at PR or other companies who are into that statistic.

At the end of the day, I personally think it’s just one more bullet that is good to be in your media kit (if it’s favorable for you, of course ;) . However, I’m standing firm to say that no number or list can possibly quantify the amazing blogger, and business owner, you have become! Your relationships will show you the true results. I’m proof of that.

Andrea publishes Savings Lifestyle (formerly Mommy Snacks.net). Stop by just to say “Hi!”

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Kristi at Spend Less and Save More November 2, 2010 at 9:18 am
I was at 606,416 and am now 313,284 so I’d say it works!

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Judy November 2, 2010 at 9:50 am
I went from 3,344,851 to 1,552,412! Thanks so much for telling us about this tool!

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Mrs. Little November 2, 2010 at 10:39 am
I don’t remember the exact nuber but it was around 4,100,000. Now I am at 1,915,174!

Yes, it really does work!!!

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Kristi @ Creative Kristi November 2, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Mine started at 1,024,471 and the last time I looked at it it was below 800,000 so I’d say it works! (My blog isn’t accessible right now bc of a blogger-wordpress move but that’s the last number I remember!)

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Kelleigh @ Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs November 2, 2010 at 4:39 pm
I was at 483,069 and now I’m at 419,275!

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Amber @Saving Money Wisely November 2, 2010 at 8:44 pm
I started at 555,957 and I’m now at 311,945! I’m hoping that the results continue to improve :-)

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Andrea November 3, 2010 at 5:26 pm
1,115,652 as of 10/24/10

936,427 as of 11/3/10

What is that? A week and a half? This seems so odd. I have to agree with Carrie I – why would anyone look at this if it can be so easily manipulated?

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Krystyn November 3, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Mine improved, but then it went up slightly. Guess it’s time to visit a little more often.

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Sherri @ Luv a Bargain November 6, 2010 at 11:33 am
On 10/2/10, mine was 891,895.

And as of today, 11/6/10, it’s 548,088.

Hopefully it will continue to improve…fun :) Thanks for sharing!

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Jen @ Happy Little Homemaker November 6, 2010 at 4:37 pm
i started out at 15,439,571. Now i have 1,615,734.

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Melissa November 7, 2010 at 12:03 am
I only put the Alexa toolbar on about a week and a half to two weeks ago. I was at 960,582 and now it is down to 860,538.

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Gina @ The Crave to Save November 8, 2010 at 7:31 am
On 10/8 I was at 1,389,900 and today, one month later, I am at 616,089! This definitely did the trick!

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Robin @ Pink Coupon Cafe November 8, 2010 at 12:11 pm
I don’t know how I missed this before, but I want to try it!! How can I find out what my Alexa rating is now? When I go to the Alexa site and try to search for it, I get a message saying “no information found” or “it took too long to process your request.

I know my blog is small, but surely I have an Alexa ranking somewhere!

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Rhoda @ Southern Hospitality November 13, 2010 at 11:37 am
Thanks for this tip! I tried it too and went from around 275,000 down to 213,000 in just about 4 weeks. Amazing, don’t know how it works, but glad it does! And it’s fun to see the ranking of whatever page I’m on just by glancing at the toolbar.

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Kristi @ Frugally Thrifty November 15, 2010 at 1:44 am
I started @ 888,247 and now I am currently @ 412, 320! That’s awesome! I love this experiment! Any more easy PR experiments we can try now or how about a SEO experiment? I need help with that!

Thanks Savvy Blogging for all your tips!

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Andrea @ Savings Lifestyle Reply:
November 18th, 2010 at 4:29 pm

WOW Kristi, that’s awesome!

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Jen Knox November 17, 2010 at 9:03 am
I started tracking on October 12th and was at 4,060,219 and jumped down to 2,471,642 on October 23rd without doing much else except for using it. Now, on November 17th I’m at 2,302,936 but I actually forgot to use it for the past week and a half so it would probably be even lower than that if I’d remembers. Firefox isn’t my default browser for a few reasons so I had to remember to use it. ;) Still, a really nice change! Considering this was a rather neglected blog beforehand and since, I’m impressed with it.

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Melissa @ The Sassy Saver November 20, 2010 at 1:48 am
I started at 1,093,554 and am now at 440,219!!!!! I am so excited that it went down so much. but I agree with you, it is just another bullet point, but if it gives me a chance to work with PR then great!

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Jacki December 26, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Mine was somewhere around 639,000 and now it’s down to 170,959. Woo hoo! I’d love some SEO tips.

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