Have you noticed your ranking went the other way? Yes it did. We were ranked at 80K and were hoping we would break into the 70K barrier. Alexa has changed their overall ranking. I for one think it’s a great update, and really puts things into perspective. Here’s the good news! The sites that have a Google PR will more than likely move up in rank! The sites that have a relatively high bounce rate with no Google PR rank will move down in rank. The sites that claim there ranking is this and that, including me, will now be more humble.

Alexa Statements:

We’ve been working hard behind the scenes for several months and are excited to announce that our new Alexa Rankings system is available.

When Alexa began displaying rankings in 1998 it was with the goal of showing Alexa Toolbar users how popular any given site was within the Alexa community. We generated the rankings through an analysis of Internet usage by people who use the Alexa Toolbar. Since that time we’ve been delighted to see that the Alexa Rankings have become a yardstick by which website popularity is measured. We are grateful to the thousands of people who come to Alexa.com each day to check the Alexa Rankings.

In recent months we’ve heard from our Alexa users that understanding Internet usage beyond Alexa Toolbar users was increasingly of interest. Ask and you shall receive!

We listened to your suggestions, and we believe that our new rankings system is much closer to what you asked for. We now aggregate data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users.

You gave us many other suggestions as well, and we are working hard to implement them. We won’t tell any secrets just yet, but you can expect to see new features rolled out over the coming weeks and months.

Below are a few common questions we anticipate from the Alexa community, along with our answers.

My site’s ranking has changed. Was it wrong before?

Your ranking wasn’t wrong before, but it was different. Alexa toolbar users’ interests and surfing habits could differ from those of the general population in a number of ways, and we described some of those possible differences on our website. While the vast majority of sites’ rankings were unaffected by such differences, we’ve worked hard on our new ranking system to adjust for situations in which they could matter.

The new rankings should better reflect the interests and surfing habits of the broader population of Web users.

Why are the long range graphs gone? I can only get 9 months of historical data.

We are recalculating historic traffic data and will continue to add it over the coming weeks. We apologize for the inconvenience, but should have several years of data back on line shortly.

Will you change the rankings again?

We are constantly working to ensure that we provide the most useful data that we can. We will continue to fine tune our algorithms but don’t foresee any additional big changes. If you think something is amiss please let us know.

I liked the old rankings better. Are they still available somewhere?

We liked the old rankings as well. However, we developed the new system in response to the huge number of requests we got from users like you, and now that it’s done we like it even better. We hope you will too.

We think that having more than one ranking system at a time would be confusing, so we have removed the old rankings.

Do you want to know what I think about this?

Definitely. We’ve been collecting suggestions and ideas for months now, and would love to hear more. If you have thoughts on what we’ve done so far, or ideas on what we should do next, please share them with us.

Quantcast.com this is what it’s all about! This is what web rankings should be!

BlogTBT.com has only been live for 8 weeks since launching on January 23rd 2008. We broke the Alexa 100K barrier in such a short period of time. Don’t be fooled, I worked really hard during these 8 weeks to achieve this mark. Our current ranking is 99,820 and we thank everyone who has been a visitor here. The most important visitor is one that reads my blogs and leaves a comment.

I have provided a lot of information on how to increase traffic to your blog site. Here are some of the blog posts I would like to share once again:

http://blogtbt.com/wordpress/improve-web-traffic-using-multiple-campaigns/

http://blogtbt.com/wordpress/how-to-increase-web-traffic-with-wordpress/

http://blogtbt.com/wordpress/web-site-promotion-techniques/

It’s important that you have fresh original content that will provide interest to your readers based on your niche. This is how you can create a fan base that will frequent your blog site. Be creative and write something that visitors will gain knowledge based on your niche.

There’s a blog site that provides excellent, original and helpful content. It’s a blog site I visit each day Josh’s Unconventional Marketing Blog. Josh provides some of the best techniques in getting the most out of marketing your blog site. His latest blog provides insight and strategy on how to capitalize on Entrecard. This is how you get your readers to become fans based on the value of information that you author. Way to go Josh, you have a fan!

Josh’s latest blog on “How to capitalize on Entrecard”

To celebrate our achievement, I am rewarding 100 Entrecard Credits for the first ten comments about this blog, plus the best 3 comments will get a link with a brief description on the top fold of the web site for one Month! Even if you missed out on the 100 EC’s you still can get your site listed.

I have written 2 other blogs on web site ranking according to Alexa. I use both Alexa and Quantcast to see how well my site is performing rank wise. Alexa ranks from 1 to 16+ million and Quantcast ranks 1 to 21+ million web sites.

After 15 days Alexa finally updated, and I am very pleased with this update. We have improved from 411,877 to 182,673 from February 20th to March 6th! In 6 weeks here’s how we have progressed in ranking.

I realized that this significant gain in web ranking was not only a result from Entrecard who makes up 29.03% of our total traffic. I am currently advertising with 2 adverts and 3 social bookmark sites. I really took a close look at my detailed traffic according to Google Analytics and was impressed with my uniques, page views and bounce rate.

I am sure many of you will flock to see your updated ranking and why not, you deserve it!

One more thing I would like to add. In my last post about Alexa ranking update, I asked everyone to guess my Alexa ranking on the next update. The one who guessed closest would get 7 days of advertising!

We have a winner! Daily Tech Impressions. His guess was 250K.

I am always excited to see my ranking move up in the Alexa ranking. Alexa updates on a regular bases every 4 1/2 days, however this update is going into day 8. This is not a bad thing as your site is still receiving traffic each day.

Alexa has been a great tool for me to measure not only my site, but other sites. It allows me to see what sites I want to advertise on based on that sites ranking. The add-on Sparky is a must have for any blog site that is looking to advertise on other web sites. More on add-ons below.

Add-ons

Alexa the “Web Information Company” has been around for a long time (1996). I recommend that you download “Sparky” at Alexa. This will show you every sites ranking you browse to. The add-on is free and is located in your browser status bar and it’s non-intrusive with your web browsing.

My results so far in just 4 weeks

1/23 - 12,345,537
1/31 - 3,799,956
2/4 - 1,978,769
2/6 - 1,530,879
2/12 - 1,098,281
2/13 - 714,467
2/18 - 501,992
2/20 - 411,877
x/xx - Guess our next ranking and will run your ad for 7 days!

Alexa Info:

Alexa currently gathers approximately 1.6 Terabytes (1600 gigabytes) of Web content per day. After each snapshot of the Web, which takes approximately two months to complete, Alexa has gathered 4.5 Billion pages from over 16 million sites. This information tells us that Alexa ranking is from 1 to 16+ million.

As promised, I gave Entrecard a chance and put a lot of effort into it for the last 7 days.

My test plan:

1. Drop at least 100 EC’s daily out of the 300 allowed.
2. Write 5 to 10 recommendations per day.
3. Leave at least 10 comments daily on other blogs within the EC network.

Here’s my drops over the last 9 days (Almost 300 per day)

I have made many site recommendations as well as posting comments on other blog sites based on my interests.

Traffic details:

515 clicks from entrecard.com to you

Alexa ranking went from 3,120,430 to 1,530,879. That’s a 100% improvement.

26 comments in 8 days (3+ per day)

Conclusion: Yes it does help, and I will stay with Entrecard for another 3 weeks and review my site statistics again. I appreciate all the comments!

I think we all can help by dropping on everyone who drops on you consistently.