Comments on: Improving your Alexa Rank without Using IE – 1 Week Update

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:02:33 +0000

So can anyone confirm that the widget actually does help? My site’s traffic is almost 80% firefox.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:14:37 +0000

Many Firefox users, myself included, use the Search Status extension which actually does report back to Alexa like their toolbar does — although I turn it off when I come here since I’m trying to catch up to your Alexa rank

By: stark

stark — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:07:31 +0000

A greater than 1 million Alexa ranking is nothing to be embarrassed about. If you have a site that is frequented by a strongly non-IE based community (this site has over 75% non-IE visitors) you really haven’t stood much a chance at all in improving your rank.

To be honest, I think the only reason Fuzzy Future has any rank at all is from random visits from StumbleUpon and Digg. Most of our regular readers are FireFox users or wouldn’t install the Alexa toolbar anyway.

That is the whole problem with Alexa in the first place. A good site with decent traffic can look MUCH worse then it actually is simply because it doesn’t get a very specific set of visitors. That’s why I hope the Alexa widget is at least helping out a bit.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:27:23 +0000

I recently installed it as well. I’d like to see if it makes a difference. It will be hard to tell though because my rank has been jumping a few thousand places every few days. I though in a little CSS to hide the ugly embarrassing widget though. If this does work, then why can’t we just load up like 5 widgets? Would that make a difference?

By: Frucomerci

Frucomerci — Wed, 02 May 2007 09:26:17 +0000

Though I am a bit embarrassed about my alexa ranking (>1m) I have just installed the widget to see what happens…
I’ll let you know!

By: Cade

Cade — Tue, 01 May 2007 20:48:08 +0000

I just installed the widget recently. It will be interesting to see how it impacts the growth of my site. I am surprised how significant it is.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 01 May 2007 20:41:12 +0000

I may be wrong, too. The important thing was just getting back above hem acharya on your Top Commentators

By: stark

stark — Tue, 01 May 2007 20:35:47 +0000

yeah, you might be right Shane. I might have gotten a little ahead of myself just because it made such a big jump in so little time. It’s probably more an artifact of Fuzzy Future traffic finally starting to register like you said…

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 01 May 2007 18:57:12 +0000

I wonder whether it actually did make a difference or not, Chris. Mine jumped even more than that without using the widget, and I don’t see a noticeable increase when looking at your Alexa graph.

What I do see, though, is you replacing a week that had no traffic 3 months ago with a week that had lots of traffic. Since Alexa is a three-month rolling average, you’ll see big jumps if your blog is new even if your traffic was flat week over week.