Are the New Alexa Rankings More Accurate?

November 11, 2008

Alexa began displaying website popularity rankings in 1998, with the goal of showing Alexa Toolbar users how popular any given site was within the Alexa community. Alexa’s rankings were generated through an analysis of Internet usage by people who use the Alexa Toolbar. Over time, Alexa became the standard by which website popularity was measured.

However, one of the biggest complaints with Alexa is while it’s a useful tool, it’s not all that accurate.

Well, apparently, Alexa is trying to change that. According to information on their website, they now aggregate data from multiple sources to give users a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users. They are normalizing the traffic from their global panel to provide consistently accurate rankings for all countries.

Alexa toolbar users’ interests and surfing habits differed from those of the general population in a number of ways, and they describe some of those possible differences on their website.

Alexa claims the new rankings better reflect the interests and surfing habits of the broader population of web users.

Alexa says that they are constantly working to ensure that they provide the most useful data that they can, and will continue to fine tune their algorithms.

I tested out the “new” Alexa, before writing this article. So is it more accurate than before? To be perfectly honest, I didn’t notice any discernible difference in the way Alexa performs. Its results are still way off when compared to my own statistical data.

But your mileage may vary.

How to Increase Alexa Ranking of Your Website

October 26, 2008

Alexa toolbar also useful to Browse expired websites database. Many times when we visit any website we got error message that website is not available. We have to simply click The Wayback Machine button on Alexa toolbar and we can see the old data of that website.

How to Increase Alexa Ranking of your website?

Alexa Toolbar using millions of users. Alexa Gives Ranking by Analysing the web usage of millions of Alexa Toolbar Users. Alexa Sorting Millions of websites thru Alexa Toolbar and giving numerical rank for each website browsed by Alexa Toolbar.

First Step of increasing your websites Alexa Rank is Download Alexa Toolbar and start browsing your website regularly.

When you completed downloading of Alexa Toolbar, then you can see your websites Alexa Rank on Alexa Toolbar. May be if you dont have Alexa Rank it will Display “No Data” rank. Dont worry after couple of days your website will get Alexa Rank in number.

Keep browsing thru Alexa Toolbar within couple of months period your website will get good Alexa Ranking. Suggest & encourage your friends, relatives, your Company employees to download Alexa Toolbar in their computers. You will see the miracle your compnay websites will get very nice alexa rank.