Hi,<br /><br />I'v been wondering, do any of you know a good rank to aim for in Alexa to be considered a "worthy" rank? Obviously top 10 would be amazing, but seriously, what do you think is a realistic ranking to have or at least a rank that indicates your><img src='http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->i'd say 4 is a good starting place to aim for<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />Yes your site should be as big and popular as youtube <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> <br /><br /><br />As for an indication your style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":huh:" border="0" alt="huh.gif" /><!--content-->
I think it depends style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> ) then you'll start tracking at 100,000. That's fairly respectable.<br /><br />To give it a tiny bit of perspective, I know of a very popular site that was ranking between 30k-40k a few years ago, then MTV bought it and it went up to its current ranking of 9k. It's currently the most visited site of its genre... and it's still style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" /><!--content-->
Very interesting Expat! <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> Thank you very much for the info. <br /><br />So as WDF is a year old 157,738 isn't too bad I guess compared to the whole world?? Thanks for the insight, i'll keep an eye style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":good:" border="0" alt="good.gif" /><!--content-->
Anything less than 100,000 is considered to be good style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/yahoo.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yahoo:" border="0" alt="yahoo.gif" /> <br /><br /><!--content-->
<!--quoteo(post=11235:date=Sep 25 2007, 11:09 AM:name=Dizi)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dizi @ Sep 25 2007, 11:09 AM) <img src='http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Yes your site should be as big and popular as youtube <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> <br />As for an indication your style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":huh:" border="0" alt="huh.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />Sorry I thought she meant page rank! <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" /><!--content-->
Alexa rank is useless. Ratings are style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /><!--content-->
I wouldn't say Alexa rankings are "useless" - it's a sample size, and not an altogether bad style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> ) it begins to represent a general trend, particularly for the higher ranked sites (i.e. sites that your average Alexa/Internet user visits daily, like Google).<br /><br />Even Google's algorithms - PageRank, search engine ranking, etc. - are a fairly relative definition of "usefulness" as defined by their own mathematicians. We've all seen Google screw-ups and it is possible to manipulate the results somewhat (e.g. Googlebombing "miserable failure") but for the most part the amount of reliable data coming in will offset the outliers.<br /><br />IMHO YMMV <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /><br /><br />I found this interesting tidbit style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><!--content-->
I dont think that would work even theoretically speaking, lol <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><!--content-->
Looking at Google's Alexa rank, I don't think that there is enough time in the day for you to do that...<br /><br />1 hour = 3600 seconds, so 24 hours = 86,400 seconds<br /><br />Even with high speed internet, assuming you could visit three times every second, you could style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> But yeah, beating something like Google would be practically impossible for a smaller site.<br /><br />You can certainly influence the rankings to a surprising level though. Try it yourself, just install the toolbar and visit your own website a few times a day and watch your Alexa ranking go up.<br /><br />It's obviously harder to influence the top sites in this way but you'll certainly notice a difference if the site is ranked lower than the 100'000 mark.<br /><br />Yes, it's maybe not completely useless as something ranked number 100 is obviously going to be receiving a fair amount of traffic but comparing sites within a few thousand positions doesn't represent anything and even comparing a site ranked at 200k with><img src='http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->i can't understand alexa ranking i have a alexa ranked 78 domain name parked at sedo which should in theory earn me a fortune how come i style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":unsure:" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /> <br /><br />A quick scan of the Top 500 and I see a lot of established sites in the vicinity of 78 but nothing parked and/or new.<br /><br />Did you get your ranking from Alexa.org?<!--content-->
no,sedo listed it with rank 78,actually just checked and it now says 61,i haven't checked with alexa<br /><br />http://www.sedo.co.uk/search/details.php4?...&language=e<br /><br />if you click><img src='http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Woop! <br /><br />WDF is now up to 146,570! 10k different than 2 weeks ago <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/yahoo.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yahoo:" border="0" alt="yahoo.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />Wooooo <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/yahoo.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yahoo:" border="0" alt="yahoo.gif" /> <br /><br />We are now ranked at 104,334 quite a nice increase! <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><br /><!--content-->
nice!<!--content-->
" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> <br /><br /><br />As for an indication your style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":huh:" border="0" alt="huh.gif" /><!--content-->I think it depends style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> ) then you'll start tracking at 100,000. That's fairly respectable.<br /><br />To give it a tiny bit of perspective, I know of a very popular site that was ranking between 30k-40k a few years ago, then MTV bought it and it went up to its current ranking of 9k. It's currently the most visited site of its genre... and it's still style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" /><!--content-->Very interesting Expat! <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> Thank you very much for the info. <br /><br />So as WDF is a year old 157,738 isn't too bad I guess compared to the whole world?? Thanks for the insight, i'll keep an eye style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":good:" border="0" alt="good.gif" /><!--content-->Anything less than 100,000 is considered to be good style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/yahoo.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yahoo:" border="0" alt="yahoo.gif" /> <br /><br /><!--content--><!--quoteo(post=11235:date=Sep 25 2007, 11:09 AM:name=Dizi)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dizi @ Sep 25 2007, 11:09 AM) <img src='http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Yes your site should be as big and popular as youtube <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> <br />As for an indication your style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":huh:" border="0" alt="huh.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />Sorry I thought she meant page rank! <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" /><!--content-->Alexa rank is useless. Ratings are style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /><!--content-->I wouldn't say Alexa rankings are "useless" - it's a sample size, and not an altogether bad style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> ) it begins to represent a general trend, particularly for the higher ranked sites (i.e. sites that your average Alexa/Internet user visits daily, like Google).<br /><br />Even Google's algorithms - PageRank, search engine ranking, etc. - are a fairly relative definition of "usefulness" as defined by their own mathematicians. We've all seen Google screw-ups and it is possible to manipulate the results somewhat (e.g. Googlebombing "miserable failure") but for the most part the amount of reliable data coming in will offset the outliers.<br /><br />IMHO YMMV <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /><br /><br />I found this interesting tidbit style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><!--content-->I dont think that would work even theoretically speaking, lol <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><!--content-->Looking at Google's Alexa rank, I don't think that there is enough time in the day for you to do that...<br /><br />1 hour = 3600 seconds, so 24 hours = 86,400 seconds<br /><br />Even with high speed internet, assuming you could visit three times every second, you could style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> But yeah, beating something like Google would be practically impossible for a smaller site.<br /><br />You can certainly influence the rankings to a surprising level though. Try it yourself, just install the toolbar and visit your own website a few times a day and watch your Alexa ranking go up.<br /><br />It's obviously harder to influence the top sites in this way but you'll certainly notice a difference if the site is ranked lower than the 100'000 mark.<br /><br />Yes, it's maybe not completely useless as something ranked number 100 is obviously going to be receiving a fair amount of traffic but comparing sites within a few thousand positions doesn't represent anything and even comparing a site ranked at 200k with><img src='http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->i can't understand alexa ranking i have a alexa ranked 78 domain name parked at sedo which should in theory earn me a fortune how come i style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":unsure:" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /> <br /><br />A quick scan of the Top 500 and I see a lot of established sites in the vicinity of 78 but nothing parked and/or new.<br /><br />Did you get your ranking from Alexa.org?<!--content-->no,sedo listed it with rank 78,actually just checked and it now says 61,i haven't checked with alexa<br /><br />http://www.sedo.co.uk/search/details.php4?...&language=e<br /><br />if you click><img src='http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Woop! <br /><br />WDF is now up to 146,570! 10k different than 2 weeks ago <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/yahoo.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yahoo:" border="0" alt="yahoo.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />Wooooo <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/yahoo.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yahoo:" border="0" alt="yahoo.gif" /> <br /><br />We are now ranked at 104,334 quite a nice increase! <img src="http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /><br /><!--content-->nice!<!--content-->