There was recently one wrong rumour going through different web blogs where in bloggers started blogging about Alexa Rankings but from my experiance i have never found this to be right, because even though Alexa is not a perfect traffic measurer but still you can get a clear idea of the traffic gaining / lost on a website/blog.
Last week i sold one of my website @ TheTopTheBest.com which was getting around 5000-10000 Uniques daily and Alexa ranks also moved towards the north because of the traffic gain, and now the new owner seems to be working on it. The site when i sold had a Alexa rank of 8,96,331 and at the time of the sale the website was getting huge traffic which is still the same and you can check out the the blog has got a Alexa rank of 57,719 rank. Now this rank is gained because of the increasing traffic.
Here are some of the links of the links of the Blog posts which i was referring to in the first para , where in there were a lot of articles on Alexa posted in a belief that the Alexa rank would gain.
The best tweak in my view is just adding a Alexa Widget in your website in footer side in order to make the alexa image load whenever a visitor opens your website and the visitor is tracked hopefully, other than that posting about Alexa or its rankings would never help you out in gaining a better rank.
May 4th, 2008 at 10:13 am
It was an experiment from my side, and my final answer is that alexa doesnt care about it. Writing about alexa doesn’t affect rankings.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Agreed… blogging on Alexa will not improve rankings and it is just a myth.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:55 am
I have placed Alexa widget in the footer of one of my site … but not able to get under 1 lac…
and wat if we have a site with more then 12k pages ???
May 8th, 2008 at 7:38 am
wtf.. how do people come to such wonderful conclusions
May 8th, 2008 at 9:28 am
I heared the announcement that alexa has changed its ranking algorithm. I am little happy with this change because my website got little improvment. see new alexa ranking for http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=www.fortunehotels.in Fortune Park Hotels Ltd.
May 12th, 2008 at 10:38 am
today’s alexa ranking i saw of ur blog is 44,732
i think the changes in ranking algorithm of alexa got ur blog more better
Congrats Amit …
May 12th, 2008 at 11:03 am
No idea about the new algorithm but i can say that i have seen a increase in traffic which would be obviously visible in the alexa rank.