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.