Alexa Rank

[heris charles]

what is alexa rank in seo?

[seoindia1]

Alexa ranking is one of the major factor which advertisers look at to decide blog reputation. The lower your Alexa ranking is, the more traffic your website is getting. You want your site to be at least in top 1 million sites, but if you want to do great, try to be in top 100,000 sites.

[nico_aggelies]

Does Google use this information to calculate SERP position and/or PageRank?

Answer : No

Alexa calculate only the ranking by using statistics coming from the alexa toolbar : it's pretty easy to cheat the alexa ranking, you can have a great website with million of visitors, if you don t have any of your visitor having the alexa toolbar installed your alexa ranking will stay pretty bad, in opposite you have a seo blog with very few audience : your alexa will grow up pretty fast because fast all the seo interested people are using the toolbar

[arindamdutta16]

Alexa Rank is more of your visitors are getting alerted of the Alexa Ranking. The alexa improved due to your traffic increase, not the opposite way. And alexa ranking can be boost by using tools, it is not accurate enough. Alexa Ranking provides you an immediate view of you and your competitors' performance comparison.

[zanuda]

Unfortunately there are no reliable method to check somebody's traffic. That's why advertisers take Alexa into account. By the way, they count not only the data from toolbar but later got more value (in their algorithms).

[stonewood]

This is a ranking system set by alexa.com (a subsidiary of amazon.com) that basically audits and makes public the frequency of visits on various Web sites. The algorithm according to which Alexa traffic ranking is calculated, is simple. It is based on the amount of traffic recorded from users that have the Alexa toolbar installed over a period of three months. For SEO point of view less alexa will be great.

[Worldeyeglasses]

It is just a point system given by alexa.com It indicate Points earned by each site based on their Unique Page-views & Visitors.

[jasonhalle]

Alexa rank is a metric which shows popularity of a website. If your website has high traffic to your website, then your website has low Alexa rank. It totally depends upon daily visits on your website.

[HarshadaT]

It plays vital role for competitors analysis.

Hello Daniel,

Can you please explain how Alexa Rank plays vital role for Competitor analysis?

[aliciasmith123]

Alexa is best for SEO. Alexa Calculate the ranking using statistics coming from the alexa toolbar .Alexa ranking is one of the major factor which advertisers look at to decide blog reputation. The lower your Alexa ranking is, the more traffic your website is getting. You want your site to be at least in top 1 million sites, but if you want to do great, try to be in top 100,000 sites.