Alexa Get Yer’ Game On
Posted on February 14th, 2006by Michael Gray in Business Issues, Grayhat SEO, Tools
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In certain circles and under certain circumstances having a good low Alexa rank is a very good thing, in fact it can even line your coffers quite nicely. Now there are some people who sell tools that are supposed to lower your Alexa rank, and I’m not going to comment on whether they work or not. However if you’re looking to do it on the cheap here’s a quick and easy way to do it. Visit Alexa and get one of those groovy on site traffic buttons. If your site has any decent traffic, you should see a nice little jump in a few months time. Don’t believe me check out the rank on this website.
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February 14th, 2006 at 6:33 am
is that because your traffic has gone up or because having the button increases the ranking from more of your readers being tracked…. ?
February 14th, 2006 at 7:54 am
Yes traffic has increased, but now that every reader is tracked instead of just those with the toolbar, things look more favorable.
February 14th, 2006 at 8:55 am
you mean every user is tracked because the button tracks their IP addy?
sorry - it’s late here and my head isn’t working
February 14th, 2006 at 11:07 am
color me stupid, but are you saying that by adding that ugly alexa button, that your existing rank will improve?
if my company’s website right now had an alexa rank of 7,500 just adding this traffic button would improve that rank without an increase in traffic?
one would then have to dismiss the rank of anybody that actually has one of those buttons.
February 14th, 2006 at 11:18 am
Yeah sorry, I’m not really understanding this that well either. And it’s mid-day here so I don’t have an excuse like Darren
February 14th, 2006 at 11:20 am
How can the alexa rank help your website?
I imagine making their “Movers and Shakers” list would drive some traffic, but for an e-commerce site what would the advantage be?
February 14th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
Yep every user is tracked.
February 14th, 2006 at 12:49 pm
Greg, on the contrary, those with the Alexa button would have the true rank because every visitor would be counted, not just those people who have an Alexa toolbar. Before, it was not fair because sites that tend to have a lot of visitors with Alexa toolbars would rank higher than other sites.
Graywolf, thanks so much for this tip!!!!
February 14th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
To Greg’s point about dismissing the button and rank, I’d say it’s kind of like kids who take SAT prep courses taking the same SAT test as kids who didn’t take prep courses. Who do you think is going to do better?
February 14th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
>>Before, it was not fair because sites that tend to have a lot of visitors with Alexa toolbars would rank higher than other sites.
but you would only be able to get a true picture if everybody had one of these buttons - and that is unlikely to happen.
as the users of the buttons are definitely in the minority, it would appear to me that by using the button, you would be giving an inaccurate depiction of what your alexa rank is.
please correct me if i am erroneous.
February 14th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Kind of makes me feel the same way I do when using one of Google’s “free” tools, you wonder if what they get is larger than what they give?
But I’m game, I will see if things change, current Alexa rank 47k on seobuzzbox.com, lower better? Hmm, ok…
February 14th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
It’s not my job to worry about alexa’s data being accurate or not. I’m not saying you should do it everywhere, but testing is good, provided you know how to take the desired result and do something for your own benefit with it.
February 16th, 2006 at 3:31 am
One possible benefit is that adbrite shows your alexa rank to people considering advertising on your site. They also show your traffic and CTR, so that’s probably just an extra. But, personally I probably won’t do this unless I informed my visitors this is another way they could be tracked.
February 27th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
[...] On a sidenote I’ve also noticed my Alexa Traffic Rank is dropping/increasing, depending on how you look at it. The traffic is increasing (this I can see in my stats anyhow), the figure is dropping. I’m going to try another little trick that I read about on Graywolf’s SEO Blog whereby I add the traffic rank button to this site and see if my figure drops any lower. Of course the figure is only currently accurate for the number of users with the Alexa toolbar, but I’m presuming that by having an actual image on the site it will hit Alexa for every visitor. It’s currently around 142,000 so lets see if I can get it into 5 figures I’ll be adding a new side column to take this along with some adsense. Now if only I could work out how Site Point do their snazzy ‘hide nav’ trick, then anyone who doesn’t want the ads could just hide them [...]
September 4th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
Gonna give this a whirl. I’ll let ya know my thoughts.
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:39 pm
There is no where on Alexa’s website mentioned that the button on your site will track the wisitors. I have the botton on one of my sites for months now, I get on average 100 visitors a day and I have never seen a “nice little jump”….
April 29th, 2007 at 12:20 am
I did what GW said and I went from 337K to a yesterday rank of 13K….
Thanks,
Ahmad
http://www.ezluv.com
July 14th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
How did the linked site increase the Alexa ranking?