Comments on: Increase page ranking with DIY marketing strategies – Why Alexa traffic ranking won’t do any good to my site

By: kouji

kouji — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:12:35 +0000

interesting. i read though that advertisers take this rank into account when rating blogs. so perhaps that’s where it can come in handy?

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:10:31 +0000

@Tristan:

ha! You are right. We sometimes feel guilty not to check our Alexa ranking status. However, it is not very useful, if you don’t do advertisement on your site.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:37:54 +0000

I used to watch my Alexa rankings like a hawk. I now rely on Google analytics for my info. Alexa and PR are important if you are trying to get paid advertising, other than that, it is our own ego that keeps us refreshing the ranking sites.

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:45:59 +0000

@Manos:

There is company who buys the ad space on computer in the Internet cafe in China. If you can get your blog read by Chinese, you can pretty much get a great high Alexa ranking. I believe that there are software load the web page without user’s awareness.

By: Manos

Manos — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:11:10 +0000

Fake Alexa Rankings under top 100K
How many travelers from China visit Greece? About 50.000 – 70.000 per year according to Greece National Tourism Organization. So how can a Travel Guide for Greece have 74.3% visitors from China? (without Chinese language). View Greece Travel sites listed by Alexa Ranking at http://www.hit360.com/toptravelsites/ and see how fake Alexa ranking can be

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:10:45 +0000

@Karl Erfurt:

Thank you for stopping by. I have heard about that Alexa page ranking below 1M are basically useless. However, to get your blog or web site ranked top 100K is getting more more difficult. It’s possible to get in 100K in just one or two weeks. You simply invite people to stumbleUpOn your site frequently or get your post dugged.

As I mentioned in my post, you Alexa traffic ranking will boost dramatically, if you can get people read your blog from China.

By: Karl Erfurt

Karl Erfurt — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:57:07 +0000

Near the beginning of my blogging experience, I have found that it is possible to increase Alexa rank above 1 million by simply installing the Search Status Firefox extension and posting regularly from the WordPress interface. The number of hits and page views that get recorded by simply surfing around my own blog while writing and editing posts was enough to bring it up to about 400,000 pretty quickly.

To raise the ranking much above that, it seems that one has to be more proactive in the search for traffic – things like blog carnivals, social bookmarking sites, and interactions with other webmasters can help with this.

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:38:37 +0000

@Michael:

The key to get decent traffic is the quality of your content. Alex page ranking, Google page rank doesn’t mean anything. You need to get your content index by search engine to get decent traffic. Social with your viewers is also important.

If you just want to get short term traffic, check out StumbleUpOn related post on my blog. Get some traffic from StumbleUpOn will give you a good start.

Good luck!

By: Michael Weir

Michael Weir — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:53:27 +0000

I’ve had my first blog set up for about 2 weeks and these are my stats:

Alexa Rank: 3,205,059
Technorati Rank: 8,911,336
Average Unique Visitors Per Day: 3
Highest Unique Visitors Per Day: 6

It is connected to my main domain website (cashmachine101.com), though that has had less than 100 unique visitors in 3 months and the content and SEO is poor. I mainly advertise on a free traffic exchange, on which I use the Alexa redirect to my blog. I also submitted my website to search engines using a free service (before I added the blog). I’ve been adding a post or two every couple of days and plenty of outgoing links.

What do guys think? Maybe a combination of fresh blog content and the way the blog’s set up?

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:30:09 +0000

@Katina:

I have never trust those search engine submission. I always do that myself. Basically, I only pay attention on few search engines. Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com. It take times to get your site indexed. So be patient. You can read a post on my blog about “Easiest way to get listed on Google“.

The most important thing is to make your site for your viewers. When you have enough good quality content, people will come to you from search engine. Good luck!