Hi,

Are there any guidelines concerning the Alexa ranking numbers?

I mean, which type of sites that get a certain ranking range.

I'm developing a web page with ranks and would like to give
a description in words, for example "medium site" and
"top-100" site for certain rank ranges etc.

There must be some rule of thumb here.

Mike

"Mike" <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Are there any guidelines concerning the Alexa ranking numbers?
>
> I mean, which type of sites that get a certain ranking range.
>
> I'm developing a web page with ranks and would like to give
> a description in words, for example "medium site" and
> "top-100" site for certain rank ranges etc.
>
> There must be some rule of thumb here.
>
> Mike
>

Well, top 100 would be Alexa Ranks 1-100....

>
> Well, top 100 would be Alexa Ranks 1-100....
>

But is the ranking carried out with respect to the number of visitors only?

Isn't there any other quality parameter involved, for example how long a
visitor stays on the site and how many sub pages he/she visits and so on?

Mike

"Mike" <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote in message
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> >
>> Well, top 100 would be Alexa Ranks 1-100....
>>
>
> But is the ranking carried out with respect to the number of visitors
> only?
>
> Isn't there any other quality parameter involved, for example how long a
> visitor stays on the site and how many sub pages he/she visits and so on?
>
> Mike
>

Alexa says the rankings are based upon 2 factors: reach and pageviews. In
other words, how many Alexa toolbar users visit the site, and how many pages
do they view? See: http://www.alexa.com/site/help/?index=12

best,
Denise

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> "Mike" <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote in message
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>> >
>>> Well, top 100 would be Alexa Ranks 1-100....
>>>
>>
>> But is the ranking carried out with respect to the number of visitors
>> only?
>>
>> Isn't there any other quality parameter involved, for example how long a
>> visitor stays on the site and how many sub pages he/she visits and so on?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
> Alexa says the rankings are based upon 2 factors: reach and pageviews. In
> other words, how many Alexa toolbar users visit the site, and how many
> pages do they view? See: http://www.alexa.com/site/help/?index=12

....and how many do not mind being spied on. There are also Netcraft ranks,
which seem to be gamed far less.

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Op Wed, 30 May 2007 18:19:00 GMT schreef Mike:

> Hi,
>
> Are there any guidelines concerning the Alexa ranking numbers?
>
> I mean, which type of sites that get a certain ranking range.
>
> I'm developing a web page with ranks and would like to give
> a description in words, for example "medium site" and
> "top-100" site for certain rank ranges etc.
>
> There must be some rule of thumb here.
>
> Mike

It is my belief that the Alexa ranking is determined by the users of the
Alexa toolbar - hence mostly people who are involved with SEO and/or web
development. I saw the Alexa ranking from some management page I use
increase from 1,900,000 to 128.000 over a few months. I am the only user.

__/ [ Jan Paul van de Berg ] on Thursday 31 May 2007 12:44 \__

> Op Wed, 30 May 2007 18:19:00 GMT schreef Mike:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Are there any guidelines concerning the Alexa ranking numbers?
>>
>> I mean, which type of sites that get a certain ranking range.
>>
>> I'm developing a web page with ranks and would like to give
>> a description in words, for example "medium site" and
>> "top-100" site for certain rank ranges etc.
>>
>> There must be some rule of thumb here.
>>
>> Mike
>
> It is my belief that the Alexa ranking is determined by the users of the
> Alexa toolbar - hence mostly people who are involved with SEO and/or web
> development. I saw the Alexa ranking from some management page I use
> increase from 1,900,000 to 128.000 over a few months. I am the only user.

That sounds about right. I bet you aren't even using that site quite so
often. Otherwise, you could even go well below 50,000. To Alexa, allowing
people to game the system is a win-win situation. It encourages more people
to have the darn thing installed and therefore their sample set increases.
Having experimented with the tool for about a year (until last year), I have
a good sense for how it works (e.g. when one goes on holiday, when the
3-month sample set reaches completeness, and so forth). It's also affected
tremendously by the audience. Linux Web sites, for example, have poor Alexa
ranks becuase there's no longer a toolbar for Linux (A9 used to do the trick
before Microsoft took over and shot it down for competing with their own
services... and it's a true story by the way! :-) ).

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I was never sure about the ranking of Alexa, one of my site shows rank 12 while other site shows 11,000 something, which one is better site? Can you let me know. I get good and targeted traffic to the second site with rank 11,000 and not much to the first one. Which is the best site among both?

I never cared on ALexa Ranking since it only ****s those traffic from alexa toolbar, no more! no less!,. it simply means its traffic is not accurate,. Beside Alexa is just important for those after on buying and selling of domains