An Alexa Rank is another one of the metrics that advertisers, ad networks and PR look at to measure your site’s popularity. Since we are all about taking your Blog to a Business, your Alexa Ranking is an important area to focus on.
Honestly, I was oblivious to the Alexa Rankings until last year. It seems like there is so much information out there for who looks at what, and the good PR will look at your overall influence rather than just a number. But, after talking to Bargain Briana about how easy it was to increase your Alexa Ranking, I thought I’d experiment and try it.
One way to increase your Alexa Ranking is with the Firefox Add-on, Alexa Sparky. Once loaded, whenever you visit your own site, or other sites, it gives out Alexa juice. After subsequent visits, your ranking will slowly decrease (which is a good thing. The closer to zero you are the better).
When I did this with my previous domain name, I was under 100,000 within a month. Then eventually down to 50,000. Now that I have a new domain name, there are some things I’ve had to do to ensure my ranking comes back (and it will eventually). I fully anticipate to have my ranking back very soon!
I was out nothing, it was simple and Alexa Sparky worked!
Now, will that help me in the future? Who knows at this point. I think the more that you are established and connect in various social media channels, the better off you are. It’s just another thing that is like icing on the cake for companies who are into that information.
If you are up for an experiment, let’s try one.
This will be interesting to see how much the Alexa Sparky Add-on affects your Alexa Ranking. It really worked for me with my previous domain name. Mine is a bit of an anomoly now because of my site’s name change (and I’m tracking a different metric for Alexa). So, let’s do this:
- Download Alexa Sparky.
- Leave your current Alexa Ranking in the comments.
- One month later, we will post another post to ask for updated Alexa Rankings.
At that time we’ll ask you to share your new rankings.
If you’ve gone through a similar experiment already, feel free to share your results in the comments as well. I was amazed at the results I achieved in such a short amount of time for literally doing nothing but visiting my site!
Andrea publishes Savings Lifestyle (formerly Mommy Snacks.net). Her mission is to “Save on what you need. Spend on what you want.” She’s doing that as they anticipate finally getting rid of their jacked up car.
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That meant my Alexa ranking went in freefall from 350,000ish in April to around 759,000 in August. Since then, I’ve switched themes, dropped a few plugins and switched hosting companies. Today my ranking is 605,000 and hopefully on an upward trend.
So in the past few months I’ve learned more about hosting companies, themes and plugins than I ever really wanted to know but hopefully I can get back to concentrating on writing now. I’ll be interested to see where I’ll be in a month’s time.
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3,563,331
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Rachel Reply:
October 3rd, 2010 at 11:16 pm
9,937,681 bwah-haha-ha-ha!!!
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Sarah Reply:
October 1st, 2010 at 1:04 pm
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google is #1
facebook is #2
YouTube #3
Yahoo #4
Wikipedia #7
Blogger #8
Twitter is #9
Amazon #15
Ebay #21
Bing #22
Microsoft #23
LinkedIn #26
Myspace #30
Craigslist #31
Apple #44
Ask.com #53
Mozilla Firefox #58
Digg #114
Wordpress #138
Stumbleupon #171
Dell #195
HP #201
HULU #220
Mapquest #319
FoodNetwork #856
Nick Jr #1412
Ellen DeGeneres #1967
Problogger #2056
Oprah #2523
at least for today – of course now I am on a mission to find all top 10…
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lynn @ Maven of Savin Reply:
October 1st, 2010 at 1:35 pm
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Mine is 606,416 & can’t wait to see the results!
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537,082
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for http://littlebgcgreviews dot blogspot dot com–2,869,077 US 527,956
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I am at 373,438 right now
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Thanks!
Jennifer
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*FYI- anyone can put in your site and get your ranking!! When you have the tool bar on, you can see where every site is ranked.
Susie
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# Alexa Traffic Rank: 747,370
# United States Flag Traffic Rank in US: 164,345
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Always so much to learn! Thank you!!!
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Andrea @ Savings Lifestyle Reply:
October 4th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
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Katie @ goodLife {eats} Reply:
October 4th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
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Andrea @ Savings Lifestyle Reply:
October 5th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
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Jen @ Happy Little Homemaker Reply:
October 15th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
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483,069
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Thanks for the tip, though! If it weren’t for that, my husband and I would both employ it.
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Andrea @ Savings Lifestyle Reply:
October 6th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
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Carrie @ Springs Bargains Reply:
October 7th, 2010 at 9:39 am
http://www.alexa.com/toolbar
I installed it a few months ago and am tracking my ranking – need to compare and then I’ll update!
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My ranking for iGoBOGO.com is 718,091.
My ranking for WhenYouRiseUp.com is 9,069,769
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Pretty dramatic difference! However, I’m going to insert that I think it’s crazy that a PR firm would look at Alexa as a factor in whether or not a site is worthwhile. It is very clearly skewed toward sites that have an audience geared towards tech-savvy readership.
For instance, the traffic rank of savvyblogging.net is 96, 268. No idea what kind of traffic this site gets, but I’m pretty confident I get quite a bit more.
Yet, because the readership (especially any search result hits) is more likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed, it ranks much higher.
All that to say, I am trying to increase my Alexa ranking, but it really holds no value except to the people who don’t know how it works.
As an aside, since we know that PR firms DO look at Alexa ranking, I’ve left a few reviews of blogs on Alexa.com. I figure if someone is going to be looking at a site’s Alexa ranking, even if you don’t have a high ranking it looks good to have five stars from reviews!
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Kaley @ Cha-Ching on a Shoestring Reply:
October 7th, 2010 at 10:44 am
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Carrie from Springs Bargains Reply:
October 7th, 2010 at 11:47 am
So, if your site mainly reaches moms who don’t typically have the Alexa toolbar installed, your ranking isn’t going to be very high. But that’s why you add the toolbar yourself to help your ranking.
(Which is why I don’t put much stock in Alexa rating since it can be so easily manipulated!)
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Current rankings as of today are:
World: 888,247
US: 171,004
I don’t think its too bad considering, I have never tracked or even messed with thinking about my Alexa Ranking. Let’s see how it goes! Hope it drops in a month a little closer to 780,000 and then keeps taking its plummet downward!
Thanks for the tips!
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Gina Maddox Reply:
October 10th, 2010 at 8:04 am
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My ranking as of today 10/13 is: 460,974
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1,115,652 as of 10/24/10
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Hope to have it go up after this.
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funny?
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