Alexa widget improves traffic

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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.

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6 Responses to “Alexa widget improves traffic”

Joseph on April 13th, 2007 7:20 pm

Maybe the increase of traffic has nothing to to with the widget?
emigre on April 14th, 2007 10:12 am

Maybe….who knows?
Will on April 18th, 2007 12:18 pm

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
Irvin Clifford on May 27th, 2007 10:53 pm

do you really think this has improved your traffic rate???can’t see how it would do so.
emigre on May 28th, 2007 11:07 am

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.
Alexa ranking jumps 50% in 30 days : Make Money Online with Some Useless Info on May 31st, 2007 12:47 pm

[…] I first installed the Alexa widget which shows my blog traffic ranking on April 13 at 614,506. Today, it ranks 290,368. That’s more than a 50% improvement in traffic ranking in just over 30 days. The jump wasn’t a sudden leap. It was a hundred thousand jump every week. Just how does installing an Alexa widget on your homepage improve traffic ranking? Many people have doubted if the widget has indeed any direct effect on a blogs’ ranking especially since some have reported little or no change in their ranking after doing so. […]