The Alexa ToolbarAlexa is a service used for ranking web sites according to the volume of their traffic. The Alexa Toolbar is a quick way of getting traffic info on any web site and great for researching your competition. Notice that the Alexa Toolbar does not reveal how much visitors each site receives, it only gives you a relative rank.
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Why use this toolHow do you know if the site you are browsing is trully popular? Knowing the caliber of the site you are on is very important for webmasters. Let's say that you are comparing two PFI (Paid for Inclusion) directories. Considering that they both deal the same niche and they both have the same PageRank, in which would you purchase a link? |
Problems with the toolSites below top 40,000 have fairly unnacurate traffic ratings. Alexa bases its rankings primarily upon surfers who use the Alexa Toolbar. Surfers who have the toolbar are not representative of the entire internet population. Most non-English web sites for example, rank a lot worse than they should.
Amazon has an affiliate program which pays affiliates for purchases made through the Alexa Toolbar (as long as the user acquired the toolbar through the affiliate's web site). For some interesting reason, Adaware programs seem to frown upon the Alexa Toolbar.
Get the Alexa toolbar and visit your site a couple of times from different computers (or varying IP addresses.) If you persistently do this for a number of days in a row, your Alexa Rank will experience a significant boost. |
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