Alexa ranking system which is generally counted to be wrong by several webmasters have changed their ranking system with improved methodology and now the traffic is tracked from several different sources which may be toolbars installed on user’s computers.
Here are some of the biggest changes i have seen :
Shoemoney.com : Was 2xxx Rank : Now 19818 Rank
Problogger : Was 3xxx Rank : Now 12917 Rank
JohnChow : Was 5xxx Rank : Now 17088 Rank
DigitalPoint : Was 3xxRank : Now 938 Rank
Global Internet Index : Was 66000 Rank : Now 45323 Rank
JimKarter : Was 40xxxRank : Now 187845 Rank
AmitBhawani : Was 70000Rank : Now 54006 Rank
Labnol : Was 19000 Rank : Now 14626 Rank
This clearly shows that Alexa previously used to track down websites based on webmaster’s traffic and give webmaster related websites a better rank but now it seems to be perfectly tracking everything.
Here is some info from Alexa Announcement page
When Alexa began displaying rankings in 1998 it was with the goal of showing Alexa Toolbar users how popular any given site was within the Alexa community. We generated the rankings through an analysis of Internet usage by people who use the Alexa Toolbar. Since that time we’ve been delighted to see that the Alexa Rankings have become a yardstick by which website popularity is measured. We are grateful to the thousands of people who come to Alexa.com each day to check the Alexa Rankings.
In recent months we’ve heard from our Alexa users that understanding Internet usage beyond Alexa Toolbar users was increasingly of interest. Ask and you shall receive!
We listened to your suggestions, and we believe that our new rankings system is much closer to what you asked for. We now aggregate data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users.
My site’s ranking has changed. Was it wrong before?
Will you change the rankings again?
I liked the old rankings better. Are they still available somewhere?
Did you gain/lose any rankings in Alexa?
April 17th, 2008 at 5:33 am
I have gained & lost on few of my websites.
April 17th, 2008 at 5:33 am
Yes I personally noticed these changes on my webmasters forums, before forum was improving in terms of Alexa Ranking, whereas, over the past few weeks, it is continuously loosing Alexa Ranking (may be the fact they have improved it)
April 17th, 2008 at 5:35 am
Asim these changes were made today itself and if your rankings are dropping from a couple days then thats another issue. Check out your website’s rankings today and see the changes.
April 17th, 2008 at 5:49 am
Thats great. Atleast for you….
I personally never bother much about ALEXA.
Congrats.
April 17th, 2008 at 5:58 am
So now the ranking systems goes better huh? Have to start taking care of alexa rank too haha
April 17th, 2008 at 6:53 am
It does not help you much but at times some advertisers would advertise on your website based on your alexa ranks.
April 17th, 2008 at 8:20 am
My Blog got a boost of 10k straight compared to what was last night. I know from my traffic sources that kind of people land up on my site are not geeky. They are very regular people who look around tips on computer usage or anything similar to that. Good news for me anyway
April 17th, 2008 at 8:25 am
I did check out your website and yes thats a amazing jump, though joint bloggers always can build better blogs
April 17th, 2008 at 9:01 am
I lost a LOT of my rank - I was at 750,000-something and went to 1,508,000.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:37 am
My site jumped from 207k to 150k overnight. woohoo. My traffic has been going downhill the last month or two, so I was shocked when I saw the jump this morning.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Yes my ranking improved and i think this is the fair move by alexa as the data is not inspired by any source as was previously
April 17th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Doh, from 50,000ish to “Not in top 100,000″
This said, who cares about this metrics.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Ya I can see the changes.My rank increases over 300,000.Its a good sign.Thanks for the information.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Yes. I also lost my ranking
April 17th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
My blog alexa rank is gained wonderfully and by 200000.
It is jumped from 500K to 300K.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
i got a huge heap … from 160000’s to 74000.
i was really surprized .. hope now traffic will improve
April 17th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Mine went a bit down
April 17th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I am happy with my new Rank
April 17th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
My blog gained Alexa this time but went down to PR0 from PR2 with google.
Dunno whats the heck is happening
April 18th, 2008 at 2:48 am
I just started a few months ago so my websites are not yet or small ranked. But both ranked went up. I read that there are better websites than alexa.
April 18th, 2008 at 5:06 am
PPP coined the term Spanked Rank when Google handed out big fat 0s to a lot of bloggers PageRank. So here’s the new headline:
Lady Alexa Spanks Blog Ranks!
(yeah, sorry can’t help it, I know it’s cheesy
http://silvertooth26.blogspot.com
April 18th, 2008 at 6:26 am
I too got an increase in rank. t was somewhere in 83k and now its 64k.
April 18th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Yeah, Alexa is up… but PR is still stuck, hope Google also wakes up!
April 18th, 2008 at 8:11 am
I’m new to blogging. My blog’s rank has moved up by 300K in this week slightly slower than my previous weeks movements of 1000K per week.
Any idea what other sources they are looking to apart from this toolbar?
April 18th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Wow … thats gr888 Amit …
Alexa of ur blog is getting high on a good speed
share few tips here too
April 18th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Indeed alot of blogs and website are affected from going up to going down. But its a good thing that i saw your alexa rank is better.
April 18th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
It seems most of the big names in blogosphere have lost ranking. Fortunately for me, it’s the other way around. I jumped from 22xxx to 8,696!! Yay!!
June 5th, 2008 (5 weeks ago) at 12:34 pm
I got 8k+UV in May’08 & 25k page impression and getting something double this month… then too my alexa for http://www.BollywoodHott.com is far high than what it should be.. I get 1/10th traffic for another blog which has 6digit alexa and the one getting more traffic has 7 digit alexa
June 27th, 2008 (1 weeks ago) at 8:54 am
Very nice artice, good job