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Will new Alexa Traffic Ranking System kill StumbleUpOn?

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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?

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Why do you need a blog for you e-commerce online store

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Do you have e-commerce online stores? Do you sell goods for profit? How do you market your site in your niche? Do communicate your customers without interact with them on the phone or face to face?

If you are running e-commerce online store and are having some troubles to reach your customers, you need a blog to rescue your online store. Personally, I am a believer about marketing and branding. I am also a believer of my e-commerce golden rule. I believe that spending time marketing is somehow more important than spending time make perfect products. You can read my golden rule at How to succeed in the e-commerce world? Follow the 30/70 golden rule. You can also join my discussion about your thoughts on that.

What can a blog do for your e-commerce online store?

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Filed Under: Alexa, Blog, e-commerce, Make Money Online, Marketing

Boost Alexa traffic ranking – Enough or not enough

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Even since I re-start my Blah Blah Blog, I decided to give it a boost hand. I have researched on many ways to increase my web site traffic since June 1st, 2007. I have also post many traffic booster related posts. Many of them actually brought in more traffic to my site. Some of them are still at #1 position in Google search result and above DoshDosh’s famous post. I was surprised.

You can find more about those traffic boost tips I have in the related post section.

So how do I do with my Alexa Traffic Ranking now? Is that enough or not enough?

StumbleUpOn – The No-Magic facts of building traffic

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Since you come to this page, I assume that you are one of us. Stumbler!. And I believe that you are curious about building traffic to your web site or blog. Recently, I have been getting huge traffic from stumbleUpOn. Thanks to all stumbleUpOn friends. With my additional efforts to increase my Alexa traffic ranking, I have been doing great on my personal blog.

You may have seen many blogs or web sites telling you how to build traffic to your sites or blog pages. Do you wonder why you still not getting the traffic you expect after following all those steps? I do! I get some huge traffic on some of the pages people stumbled, but not all my pages. Are those web sites or blogs telling you the truth?

Blogline list – A new page ranking booster

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Just visited Search Engine Marketing : Darin Carter‘s blog and find the new train of page ranking booster with BlogLine. It will be interesting to see how it will boost the page ranking in short of period time. I believe it will first boost your readership, traffic, alexa traffic ranking, and the Google page ranking the last. It will be interesting to see how ASK.com react to compete with Google in the search engine market. Read on to get on the Blogline train to boost your traffic.

Stumble a page without StumbleUpOn Toolbar – One click to review a page

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For the past few weeks, I have received a lot of traffic from StumbleUpOn.com, You can see my profile at http://terencechang.stumbleupon.com/. I also provided a small bookmark Javascript tool for people who don’t have StumpleUpOn toolbar installed for any reasons. It’s a very small shortcut that you can drag to your FireFox browser bookmark toolbar folder or save to your IE favorite links. You can just one click on the shortcut to see if any page is stumbled. The bookmarklet can be found at How do you know if a page is stumbled? – One click to check it If you come to my site from somewhere else and have no idea what StumbleUpOn is all about. You should check it out. Add me as your friend and send me message if you have question.

Just today, I received a question from a new StumbleUpOn friend Witchywife, who happened to be a very good cooker. (please add her as your friend). You can find her delicious web site at Janet is Hungry. She asked me if there is a way to stumble a page without StumbleUpOn tool bar installed on her company computers. Absolute yes. However, it will just be not as pretty as toolbar installed. How can I do that with one click?

Manipulating Alexa Traffic Rankings – Does it work?

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[UPDATE 2007-07-18] In the past few weeks, I have been manipulate my Alexa Traffic Ranking with StumbleUpOn. My Alexa Traffic Ranking has since jumped to 207,742. You can read my newest update on Boost Alexa traffic ranking – Enough or not enough.

Since I started my new blog on June 1st. I post Increase page ranking with DIY marketing strategies on my site. I have continued researching, testing and manipulating Alexa Traffic Ranking. On June 11, I updated the Alexa traffic ranking status on Increase Alexa traffic ranking by 5 million points in 10 days – Just Stumble!. My Alexa traffic ranking went from 5.8 million points to 1.7 million points. That was interesting. I start believing that manipulating Alexa traffic rankings is as easy as social with friends and strangers online. Does it really work?

Now, it’s June 20th. Have I made any progress since June 11th? What is my current Alexa traffic ranking?

StumbleUpOn + Alexa Traffic Ranking = Traffic Traffic Traffic

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Do you stumbleUpOn? Are you a fan of Alexa Traffic Ranking? Do you make money online with your blog or web site, which requirs high Alexa Traffic Ranking? Would you like to increase you Alexa Traffic Ranking with just one click?

We all know that StumbleUpon and Alexa Traffic Ranking can bring you a lot of traffic, but how do you do it more efficiently? Especially for those who do not have Alexa ToolBar installed? This is just an experiment to see how easily you can increase your Alexa Traffic Ranking and got stumbled by your viewers at the same time. More people stumble your page, more traffic you will get. More traffic you get, higher Alexa Traffic Ranking you will earn. It’s a chain reaction.

Click on the graphic and see it in action.