Alexa widget improves traffic
Recently, I installed the Alexa site stats button on my site as I read at several blogs that doing so would improve traffic. My stats before was in the region of 699,000. Now, after a few weeks, stats show 614,506. It would seem that it worked for me although others have reported little or no change.
I don’t pretend to fully understand the workings of Alexa but general consensus among experts is that it is not a good measure of traffic since it only registers visitors who have installed the Alexa toolbar. Unfortunately, most advertisers use it as one of their criteria for determining a blog’s worth and whether they want to pay for a review or text link.
If you’d like to try this out, you can get the widget here.
Maybe the increase of traffic has nothing to to with the widget?
Maybe….who knows?
I would be willing to try this out on my personal blog.
I know that I am not even ranked anymore on alexa, however around 2004 I once had my domain in the 250,000 range for about 6 months until I had entered college at UA. Now, I am willing to try this out again and see how it goes.
Any tips and tricks on getting traffic would be greatly appreciated. I know that the market has changed so much in 3 years, I’m like a noob again
do you really think this has improved your traffic rate???can’t see how it would do so.
It helps with rankings because the widget records visitors who have the Alexa toolbar installed. Without the widget, your ranking would be much higher.
A very flawed measuring tool – what about all those visitors without the toolbar? Don’t they count as traffic? If you don’t monetize your website, I guess there’s no need to bother with the ranking because advertisers DO look at Alexa ranking to consider how much to pay you.