Welcome up and downswings! I have installed the Alexa toolbar last week, to start checking my Alexa ranking. For those of you who are unaware of what the Alexa ranking is, it is a tool that analyzes browsing behavior and gives you a score based on how many people visited your site, linked back to your site, commented on your site, and so on.
The lower your Alexa ranking, the better your website. Facebook is #1, Google is #2 and Youtube is #3. When I started watching my ranking, I was near the #6M mark. A couple of weeks later, my ranking is 1 414 189. I read that there were about 20 million websites, so if you want to rank in the top 5%, you would have to have an Alexa ranking of under 1 million, and the top 1% would be a score of under 200K.
While I am still very far from those goals, they are certainly achievable with patience and hard work! I have installed the Alexa toolbar on Firefox and every time I visit my website, I can see my score dropping, or going back. And you can of become addicted to it! Like when you climb on the scale every morning when you are dieting, and worry about being heavier. Finding out that you are lighter will lift up your mood for the day!
Alexa is kind of the same at the moment. I know it doesn’t mean much since I have to stabilize (like my weight!!) for a few weeks before I can officially say that I am under a certain number. But at the moment I am doing well, my ranking went from 3.6M to 1.4M in just over a week, and I am happy about it 🙂
Still, I will not live by it and try not to watch it so closely!
Funny, I was thinking the same thing a few weeks back. I installed mine right as I launched my blog as it something like 15M and it has come down quite a bit. While that’s good, I know it’s not the only measurement to watch and that you can be a slave to it. Glad to know that I am not alone in my thoughts. 🙂
”quite a bit” is an understatement, congratulations John on the great achievement! You’ll have to share your secrets someday!
Pauline, watching my Alexa score used to drive me crazy! Then I started looking harder into it and found out that it is really not that tough to get it to come down. The secret is to just get other bloggers to visit your site more often. In just a few more weeks, I think you will be surprised at how low your number gets!
Everything I learned about the process, I published in this very long post:
http://www.mymoneydesign.com/passive-income-2/blogging-passive-income-2/how-i-got-my-alexa-ranking-below-200000/
I hope this helps you and you enjoy!
what am experiencing right now is kinda annoying me , I started Blogging two months ago and my alexa traffic is increasing globally but decreasing in my country. what can I do please?
I run a couple of different websites and I also got caught up in the same type of activity – although mine was with google analytics.
Keep up the good work and I hope you get into the top 1% 🙂
Thanks for your kind words Glen!
I have looked into google analytics, too complicated for me for the moment 🙂 all the best with your blog too!
Alexa, Google Analytics and the free tool Cute Rank to track keyword rankings are my daily fixes. The Alexa rank does bob up and down so actually checking once a month would be better for my health! If you are targeting specific keywords at all it is critical to check your position in Google at least once a week in case a new website springs up the nabs some of your traffic! If it does then you can rewrite some posts and optimise them to climb back up. Have failed to find a really good free back link checker….they all seem to be unreliable….so the best thing there is probably ignore the tracking and stick to posting and commenting!
Thanks for the info! I was looking for a backlink checker a few days ago and couldn’t find one either. I mainly write for fun and am way too lazy to rewrite my articles, so if people want to steal my readers, they can! I’d rather have fun. For now.
Thanks for all the information! About backlinks checker – try ahrefs.com
Regards!
Correctly said, I cannot stay one day without checking my sites alexa rank, though I know that it has no effect on SEO ranking.
It is addictive!
Yes, it is.
Correctly said, I cannot stay one day without checking my sites alexa rank, I know that it has no effect on SEO ranking but I can’t stay one day without checking it.
Alexa seemed recently lauched a new charged service which is certified site metrics.
Great post, I find myself doing the same, I just dropped below 1 Million. and was searching to see if that is a good mark or, not. Either way it sure does feel like I accomplished something 😉
Congrats! 1M is good, that means you have more traffic than over 90% of websites so keep it up!
indeed, alexa could be some kind of addicting watching the numbers went down, I just started blogging 4 months ago and I have seen a positive results everyday, thank you for sharing your success with Alexa.
My Alexa rank to start with was 8million, 4 months up to this day I was down to 2.8, it improves daily, so excited to wake up when you see your Alexa improves…
Yes kind of addicting but, work to keep an eye on it, working on your blog daily is the main thing.
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