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.

If you own and run a web site you want to know how your web site is ranked. Alexa provides this data to you for free. You can download the latest Search Status from here. This is only for Firefox and Mozilla. Search Status allows you to see the performance of any website in the world, including yours when you have your web site opened in Firefox or Mozilla. It is located at the bottom right of your browsers status bar.

It’s important that you know your ranking to see how well your site is doing. Alexa provides you exactly what you need. It’s also a good tool to use when you’re visiting other sites that talk about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). If that site isn’t ranked in the top 100K than they’re selling you a pipe dream. I have just started and my site has moved from 12 million to 8 million in matter of weeks. It takes a lot of work to get ranked in the top 100K. There are some great SEO plugins for WordPress that work really well.

How does Alexa Ranking work?

Alexa’s traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users over a rolling 3 month period. A site’s ranking is based on a combined measure of reach and pageviews. Reach is determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day. Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site. However, multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are counted as a single pageview. The site with the highest combination of users and pageviews is ranked #1.

Alexa’s traffic rankings are for top level domains only (e.g. domain.com). We do not provide separate rankings for subpages within a domain (e.g. www.domain.com/subpage.html) or subdomains (e.g. subdomain.domain.com) unless we are able to automatically identify them as personal home pages or blogs, like those hosted on Geocities and Tripod. If a site is identified as a personal home page or blog, its traffic ranking will have an asterisk (*) next to it: Personal Page Avg. Traffic Rank: 3,456*. Personal pages are ranked on the same scale as a regular domain, so a personal page ranked 3,456* is the 3,456th most popular page among Alexa users.