Tagged: Alexa

The Cellulite Case Study – 10/14/09 Report

Posted on October 14th, 2009 by Urbain

Last night, I finally finished the CelluliteIs.com site.  I have some more autoresponder messages to write and some other things to do, but for now, there’s something workable to start sending traffic to.  We started this project on October 4 with a domain and hosting purchase.
Currently, two pages of the blogs are listed in Google [...]

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Alexa Sparky is Back!

Posted on October 13th, 2009 by Urbain

After Firefox’s recent upgrades, the Alexa Sparky add on has not been functioning.  Well, today it finally updated.
If you don’t have the plugin, you can get it here.  It’s a great “at a glance” way to see how traffic on any particular website is reported on Alexa.  The plugin will allow you to see Alexa [...]

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Did Adding the Alexa Widget Increase Traffic Rank?

Posted on December 18th, 2008 by Urbain

Earlier this month, I reported on some techniques that were speculated to increase the Alexa Traffic Rank.  One of the suggested ways to increase Alexa ranking was to add the Alexa badge to a site.  I added a badge on November 30 to test the theory out.  At that time,  Alexa was reporting two different [...]

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How to Boost Your Alexa Rankings

Posted on December 5th, 2008 by Urbain

Your beautiful web page will be a waste of effort if it does not receive traffic.  There are a lot of ways to attract visitors to your web page, but today, we’ll take a look specifically at the Alexa traffic rank, which is the service that is relied on by most advertisers on determining the [...]

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Useful Information You’ll Find at Alexa

Posted on December 4th, 2008 by Urbain

Understanding your traffic patterns is useful, particularly given the fact that advertisers or others who wish to purchase links on your site will consider your traffic rank reported at Alexa.
As mentioned yesterday, there are a number of ways that you can quickly access your Alexa data.  Today we’ll take a quick look at the information [...]

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Discover Your Site’s Alexa Rank

Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by Urbain

In yesterday’s post, we wrote that Alexa rankings are now shown on the results reported by the major search engines, Yahoo, MSN and Google.  If you are a mom and pop business site owner, you’re probably wondering what is reported about your Alexa traffic ranking.  Here’s how you can find out.
Method #1 – The Direct [...]

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New Features in Search Results – Alexa Rankings

Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by Urbain

Regardless of whether your favorite search engine is MSN, Yahoo or Google, you have probably noticed something new.  It looks like a bar in the lower left corner.  This represents your Alexa traffic rank.  Here’s a look, using the search term, Christmas special:

What in the World is Alexa?
Alexa has been around since 1996, recording Internet [...]

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