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If you watch Alexa Traffic Ranking closely like I do, you probably notice that the traffic ranking was not updated for few days. Today, Alexa has made significant changes to their traffic ranking system. They claim that the ranking system will be more accurate by collecting more data from multiple sources from all over the world.

Alexa Traffic Ranking has been used by many bloggers, web sites and pay per click advertiser to determine the amount of traffic a web site is getting. They will them decide the value of the web site. I have post many articles about Alexa Traffic Ranking and StumbleUpOn. I was using both to gain a lot of attention on the Internet. Now the traffic ranking world is changing.

Will the Alexa Traffic ranking kill StumbleUpOn?

In the past, I have gotten so much traffic from StumbleUpOn, which indirectly boost my Alexa Traffic Ranking. I did not use the traffic ranking to gain any revenue through PPC advertise. However, it was my experiment and observation to see how easy you can manipulate Alexa Traffic ranking by using StumbleUpOn, Digg and many other black-hat tricks. Now those old trick and Alexa toolbar trick will no longer be useful.

In my posts, I talked using Alexa Traffic ranking to evaluate my competition web site’s traffic. In many case, my e-commerce stores has out perform my competitor’s stores. I also use Alexa Traffic Ranking to see they grow rate in the past. This gives me a lot of information about how their business is doing.

With the new changes, you Alexa traffic ranking will be more accurate. Just recently, I found one of my test blog’s traffic ranking dramatically dropped. That site has been getting a lot of StumbleUpOn traffic as sole traffic source. It indicates that StumbleUpOn traffic is no longer play important role to gain traffic.

The site effect is that those who tend to use StumbleUpOn as the traffic booster tool will give up StumbleUpOn. Or just don’t use StumbleUpOn that much any more. If I am correct, we should see StumbleUpOn traffic ranking drop as well.

Personally, I have been using StumbleUpOn for a while and have so much fun with it. I have made some great connection and friendship with StumbleUpOn. I am not giving it up. I think my experiment is finished. You can still add me as your StumbleUpOn friends. I am sure you will like my collections of sites.

What do you think about the Alexa Traffic Ranking System changes? Will that stop you using StumbleUpOn?

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