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Steve's Tech Blog · 2 years ago

I do agree with you that Alexa is not the best but it's still "one" of the benchmark that we must live with. Review site use it.

But if you want to improve your Alexa, put the widget on your blog.
I have a post on this on my blog(got numbers of my site) and see the amazing result in just a few week. I will be able to ask more fro reviews when my ranking is updated next time. :D

Improving your site ranking on Alexa

I started to diversify my streams of income more lately ;) Every cents(USD or CAD) counts ;)

Dave · 2 years ago

Congrats on a good month! I don't know if you discussed it in the past or not, but is there a reason you don't post any specific numbers?

Joshua Dorkin · 2 years ago

Thanks Dave! I don't discuss actual numbers because it really is no one's business. It amazes me that people put themselves out there and share the exact details on their personal finances. The only people who have a right to know this info are our investors. Please don't take this as any kind of attack at you, because it is absolutely not one.

As for traffic, using inaccurate tools like Alexa and Compete, people can easily look at traffic data for any site. I prefer to keep my exact numbers proprietary.

Thanks again Dave!

Tom · 2 years ago

Joshua

I know exactly what you mean by the numbers on Alexa. One of our overlap markets is miserable for Alexa and it is costing me every month. If the numbers matched up with the reality the revenue on the site from a couple of sources would jump significantly.

Steve, thanks for the link on the Alexa tools, I will try a couple.

Tom

Steve · 2 years ago

The thing that amazes me about these sorts of stats is how few people actually use them!

Really, it is almost unbelievable how many are out there trying to make money online, with little or no comprehension of how they are doing on a weekly or monthly basis.

There again, some of those people are probably our competition, so we shouldn't really complain!

Steve

andy · 2 years ago

PR might be meaningless and alexa might be inaccurate but they both are used by advertisers. If you are trying to monitize your blog, those are important, unfortunately.

uway · 2 years ago

i use google analytics. i like how they give me even how long each keyword or referring sites stick around. With awstats it just gives you a average of your sites time but no details. Traffic is so hard to predict but i know one thing i rather have natural traffic flow over any type of traffic boosting to my site. I have noticed that traffic that comes quick like from digg or stumble they mess with the average time to my site because they don't stay long just brows for less then a minute and there gone and rarely come back. I like that i am gradually acquiring readers and my traffic continues to rise as long as i continue to post daily. If i had one draw back to blogging is in order to keep readers you must continue posting no matter how insignificant you think your post is someone is reading it.

Joshua Dorkin · 2 years ago

You're all right that Alexa is important, because advertisers use it. Web publishers, as a result, are forced to try and manipulate their Alexa data.

johnsons · 2 years ago

good gracious! thanks for this informative information.keep it up,goahead.

Dev · 2 years ago

I'm considering doing a roundup of my blog's monthly results next month. You've done a great roundup what the traffic and financial analysis ought to look like!

Blogging Mix · 2 years ago

Very informative blog. I've been monitoring my blog's performance for the past weeks since I've started it. I think one of the mistakes that bloggers do is to give less attention on analyzing their blog's performance, comparing their actual performance with that of their blog objectives. Even worse, some bloggers do not have an objective to start with.

Thanks for the post. Really useful.

cheers!

AffiliateMarketing · 1 year ago

Good post. It is very informative. It is not easy to earn good money from blogging. Seeing your stat is attractive.

california bail bonds agency · 6 months ago

Yeah...good Post.And i want to learn more about affiliate marketing...and i want to know about how to index a page in alexa,alltheweb and alltavista..
Please provide some information for the above question.

joel · 2 months ago

Hi, I didn't know the importance of Alexa ranking till now. I was bothered only about the page ranks and totally ignored Alexa. I would start analyzing my blog the way you mentioned.
Thanks for the nice information.