Alexa rankings are best way to determine (guess) traffic to a blog/website. The lower you’re Alexa, the more popular your website is in terms of traffic and website popularity. Some days back Alexa updated it’s algorithm to provide more accurate rankings by using improved methodologies to rank websites for all countries than gathering the page views data with Alexa toolbar installed on user’s computer. It seems that Alexa is tracking sites very well now.
The new Alexa traffic update is creating a lot of buzz among bloggers and directory owners with many money making blogs like Shoe Money, John Chow and ProBlogger falling high on the alexa rankings. Directory owners are also hit with the Alexa Update.
Analysis of Alexa Update on some random web directories.
- Zorg Directory Alexa rankings dropped from 120K to 91K.
- Web-Directories.ws Alexa rankings dropped from 48K to 83K.
- Gii.in Alexa rankings dropped from 66K to 45K.
Alexa trying to improve it’s tracking has left us with mixed feelings with some directories moving up and some going down. But what is good that at least now Alexa rankings seems to be more accurate and now toolbar dependent.
Post your comments on whether your directory moved up or down after the Alexa update and I will update the list.
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2 Comments Received
April 20th, 2008 @3:50 pm
We’ll have to see how the changes affect rankings over the next few months too.
Nice post Amit.
April 24th, 2008 @2:53 am
My blog went from 110K to 69K!
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