Recent Alexa Shakeup

Posted on May 22, 2008
Filed Under Blog Resources, Site Traffic, Site Updates

Alexa ripple Some of you might notice a “shakeup” in Alexa’s rank figures lately. After the last major Alexa Rank update, I went from 195,973 to 179,560 since two weeks ago. Yesterday, my Alexa Toolbar and Alexa Rank Widget both gave a bit disappointing numbers - 189,144, a slide of almost 10,000.

But it was something I already expected as traffic to my blog were not as good as last month - perhaps partly because I have only written 2 or 3 posts per week for the last 3 weeks now.

But today, my Alexa Toolbar is displaying a different number as against the Alexa Rank widget. My Alexa Rank today went back to 179,560. The Alexa Site also displays the same rank but my Widget still displays 189,144.

What does this means? Is Alexa going to make another wave of major update soon? Are they going to introduce new changes to their ranking algorithm? Or this ‘erratic” and seemingly conflicting numbers between the Alexa Toolbar and the Alexa Rank Widget normal?

I should have stopped looking at my Alexa Rank already. But I could not help it, everyday, I always see it. Is the Alexa Rank change even worthy to blog about?

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9 Responses to “Recent Alexa Shakeup”

Deimos Tel`Arin on May 22nd, 2008 4:50 pm

Bah.

Stupid Alexa Traffic Ranking.

New algorithm is still ridiculous.

Sites with much less traffic are better ranked than sites with much more traffic.

Just pure bull crap! -_-

Bloody better to focus the time and energy on producing quality content, spend quality time on promotion, or SEO in order to get good SERP etc

Bah! Stupid Alexa! Stupid! Baka! Baka!

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Javi on May 23rd, 2008 1:38 pm

At least you’re still in the under 200K. That still counts for something I think. My blog has been languishing in the 500K for some time now.
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bloggista on May 23rd, 2008 5:42 pm

@Deimos, LOL, yeah, me thinks me should stop looking at Alexa (now its back to 188,091).

@Javi, the way you’re blogging in there, there’s no doubt you’ll surpass my numbers in a few weeks time. You’re now under 500K.
levian on May 24th, 2008 11:02 pm

haha, it’s difficult not to look at it.
just as i looked through my visitors each day,
just so i can pay them a visit as well.
a continuous effort to support each others.
do let me know if you’re interested in exchanging links.

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Frank J on May 25th, 2008 4:29 am

It’s much better that Alexa changed the way they rank. It’s fair and not over-rated.
MAke Money w/ Gusher on May 26th, 2008 11:56 am

I’ve also noticed the change in my blogs Alexa rank, and my alexa rank on my blog’s alexa widget was different on my toolbar’s alexa rank. hmmmmmm, maybe alexa widget we’re having some problems on updating our blog’s alexa rank.
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Mojics on June 23rd, 2008 6:51 pm

Me myself i don’t get too excited on Alexa’s ranking even PR. I just focus on getting traffic from SE
inday on July 27th, 2008 10:33 am

you have a good alexa rank. my blog is still at 4 million something.. waah! this july lang din naman kasi ako ng update ng todo at ng promote eh.. any tips on how i can increase my alexa rank?

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