New Alexa Ranking Algorithms
Alexa ranking is a very useful indictor to see how much traffic flowed to the website I concerned, and the level of popularity. But it had its own deficiency is that it only count the visits from those who have installed Alexa Toolbar. To many people, like me, who are disgusted to install too many toolbars in browser, they will refuse to install the Alexa Toolbar, and hence the number of visits will never be counted.
To solve this problem, Alexa has made a great improvement to change its algorithms, and have taken multiple sources into consideration. Though it hasn’t mentioned what kinds of sources it has taken into account, it is always good to hear this great news. At least, all these have provided consistently accurate data to my websites/blogs.
In this update, the Alexa Ranking for DaGsenseCodes.com has increase to 200,000 level, which is not too far to my target of 100,000. I gotta keep on hard working to promote my blog. Of course, you mutual support is also highly appreciated.
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.
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.
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.
To solve this problem, Alexa has made a great improvement to change its algorithms, and have taken multiple sources into consideration. Though it hasn’t mentioned what kinds of sources it has taken into account, it is always good to hear this great news. At least, all these have provided consistently accurate data to my websites/blogs.
In this update, the Alexa Ranking for DaGsenseCodes.com has increase to 200,000 level, which is not too far to my target of 100,000. I gotta keep on hard working to promote my blog. Of course, you mutual support is also highly appreciated.
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.
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.
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.
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posted by Joe Li @ 11:24 AM
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Alexa.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.com. It is a website which provides information on traffic levels for websites. The Alexa rank is measured according to the amount of users who’ve visited a website with the Alexa toolbar installed. Alexa toolbar is an application developed by Alexa Internet. Its primary use is to measure website statistics. This toolbar collects as well as gives some valuable information. Once you install it, the Alexa toolbar monitors all your surfing and collects information about what domains you visit. They use this data to rank web sites. The traffic rank they assign to websites is based on 3 months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of other users and is a combined measure of page views and users. Webmasters, advertisers and ad networks use your blog’s Alexa rank as a gauge to determine the worth of a link on your website. If you depend on link or site selling as a form of monetization you’ll definitely want to increase your Alexa rank, because it’ll increase your bargaining power when it comes to ad pricing.
Thanks for your explanation.
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