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Re: Has Your Alexa Rank Gone South Recently?

TerryG — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:23:28 -0000

Thanks for this post. I checked my ranking and I too went south by half. I could not believe it as over recent weeks I have had a steady climb and though I was getting somewhere at last. Nice to know someone else has the same problem.

Re: Has Your Alexa Rank Gone South Recently?

Nirmal — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:31:18 -0000

I dont know if it has effected my ranking, but there has been change definitelty and may be its because of the new toobar for firefox.

Re: Has Your Alexa Rank Gone South Recently?

Derrick — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:23:16 -0000

Actually, your rank can go down even if your traffic increases if someone else's traffic increases more. For example, assume there are three sites: foo, bar, and qux. Week 1, foo has 3000 visitors, bar has 2000, and qux has 1000. Thus, they are ranked foo #1, bar #2, qux #3. If week 2, foo and bar each add 10% qux takes off and gets 2500 more, we have foo with 3300, bar with 2200, and qux with 3500. So even though bar has 10% more traffic, it goes from rank 2 to 3.

Re: Has Your Alexa Rank Gone South Recently?

Shashank — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:10:20 -0000

from the past few week my website was getting jumps in order of 25k but this week only 1k jump :(

Re: Has Your Alexa Rank Gone South Recently?

Everton — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:52:35 -0000

Oddly my daily rank has shot up yet my 3 month average is going down (despite the daily rank now being higher than the 3 month average).

That is possible....if your daily rank exactly 3 months ago was higher then your 3 month average will fall

Re: Has Your Alexa Rank Gone South Recently?

John — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:37:24 -0000

Oddly my daily rank has shot up yet my 3 month average is going down (despite the daily rank now being higher than the 3 month average).

Re: Has Your Alexa Rank Gone South Recently?

Bush Mackel — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:41:28 -0000

Yeah, I don't know what's going on either but things are certainly getting worse which sucks since at the moment, getting a better Alexa rank is def a priority.

Re: Has Your Alexa Rank Gone South Recently?

P Chandra — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:00:11 -0000

I think the official new firefox plugin Spark is showing effect. Maybe blogs with more "Firefox with sparky" readers will get better Alexa ranks...

Re: Has Your Alexa Rank Gone South Recently?

morris — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:13:21 -0000

I had lost my rankings due to a hacking attack and now i am getting back on track, would like to test the firefox plugin for sure

Re: Has Your Alexa Rank Gone South Recently?

Robert Irizarry — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:38:45 -0000

The new Firefox plugin may be a factor although based on traffic from Firefox users on my blog, I actually would have expected an improvement. I suppose its still to early to tell what the cause is.

Re: Has Your Alexa Rank Gone South Recently?

horisly — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:38:08 -0000

have not make effort to increase my alexa rank,so see no change

Re: Has Your Alexa Rank Gone South Recently?

listikal — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:39:22 -0000

I'm sure this is taking a bigger affect on those of you with higher rankings. I haven't gone down in a couple of months.

Re: Has Your Alexa Rank Gone South Recently?

gaman — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:27:01 -0000

I've noticed too. Perhaps after they release the Firefox plugin, they are getting closer to the real picture?

I've written about it here:

http://www.sabahan.com/2007...

Re: Has Your Alexa Rank Gone South Recently?

Robert Irizarry — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:38:09 -0000

I've noticed the same over the last two weeks. Despite some of the highest traffic weeks I've ever had, I've seen my Alexa rank get worse - not better! I've yet to come across any explanation for it. A change in their algorithm is as good as any.