Factors that Affect Alexa Ranking?

[PrasanthMohanachandran]

Hi All,
Can any one please help in the factors that effects Alexa ranking.
My website Alexa rank got increased at all of sudden. It was 600000 last month it got increased to 1000000 by today and i cant even find the rank in own country which was 22000 before.

Please help me in this, my organic traffic and over all traffic is constant only, how ever my website got effected. Please suggest me on this

[csfarnsworth]

Yup you are right and so is MR ALEXA. They all count on traffic. My words sounds like stupid for you but Let me share a real experience with you.

http://muslim-academy.com/ This site was in 63k alexa with 800 visitors per day but it goes down to 189K with increase number of visitors per day.

On the other hand I started one of my other site http://forumlist.info/ It gives people free list of forums online.Now its a value based site.I am getting max 50 visitors per day but my bounce rate is around 40% and time on site always above 3 min per visitor on average.

In My experience that even Alexa the traffic estimator rank based looks into all factors like

--Page views

--Quality and diversity of these views

--Bounce Rate

--Time on site

Reviews on alexa do not matter as much so do not waste your time doing it.

[Devanur-Rafi]

Hi Prashanth, don't be obsessed with Alexa Rank as its highly volatile with lot of factors that are out of a webmaster's control. A growing Alexa Rank does not necessarily mean that your website is doing bad, it might also be because of other websites out there doing well.

However, if you want to lower the Alexa Rank for your website, you can ask all your people to install Alexa toolbar on their systems and access your website. Within no time, you will see a drastic improvement in your Alexa Rank.

You would be doing good on all fronts if you work towards improving the quality of the content on your website and making the user experience better there by making the site sticky that will result in better site engagement times. This will eventually bring all the SEO goodies to your website and ultimately to you.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.