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vishenda · 01-04-2007, 01:56 PM

Here's a concern from an internet marketer:

"I have seen PR1 websites having an alexa ranking. I have a PR2 website and still has no alexa ranking.
Can anybody provide some tip or solution?"

Your answers will be well taken
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As I understand it, Alexa ranking is based only on traffic, not PR (PageRank). PR is Google's way of determining a websites popularity. Google PageRank (PR) is based on the value of incoming links to your site. Alexa rankings are based on the number of times people who use the Alexa Toolbar visit a site. Alexa rankings are to websites what Nielsen ratings are to television.

Read the limitations of the ratings on the Alexa website. Short version: The ranking of web sites over 100,000 are increasingly less reliable. For example, there may not be much difference from a site ranked 750,000 and one ranked 900,000.

Here are two tips for increasing your Alexa ranking:

1. Continue to build a high-quality site with content people want and do all the other things you probably know about to attract more traffic to your site.

2. Install the Alexa Toolbar on Internet Explorer (it doesn't work with Firefox) and everytime you visit your site, make sure you use IE with the Alexa Toolbar on. I know it sounds crazy but do it as an experiment for 3 months and see if it makes a difference in your Alexa ranking. I bet it will.
Encourage your regular website visitors to use the Alexa Toolbar too.
Alexa ranking is based ONLY on the amount of times your site is visited by someone with the Alexa toolbar installed.

The Stealthy One · 01-04-2007, 02:40 PM

That is absolutely right! I think a lot of people are confused by the Alexa ranking, but in my opinion, it's the more valuable of the two (PR vs. Alexa).