Thread: Tracking Alexa Ranks Over 100,000

Alexa have recently stated that its toolbar has achieved over 10 million downloads worldwide, but I am unsure as to the duration this claim refers to. I am confident to assume that a very large percentage of toolbars will remain installed are being installed and therefore continue to contribute to the accuracy of the Alexa ranking system. But, this does however highlight the need for webmasters, who wish to gain the best rank possible, to install an Alexa widget on their sites.


Although not everyone in the web development industry believes that Alexa is a reliable popularity ranking system, Alexa (an Amazon company) remains at the forefront of the website ranking world and receives worldwide recognition of this. I recently searched Google with the keyword "website ranking", and the results were clear. It was Alexa.Com who was at the top of the search results.
In contrast to Google Pagerank systems, the lower a site's Alexa rank number, the higher the rank is. Google operate a system in reverse where a higher number indicates a higher rank. At the time of writing this article, Goole ranked no. 1 on Alexa's Top Sites list, closely followed by Facebook, Youtube and Yahoo.
But, with all this said, what does having a high Alexa rank do for your site?


Your site's Alexa rank is very important for recognition and website monetization. Many website flipping businesses use Alexa rank to assist when making a calculated decision regarding the financial potential of a website on the open market. There are also websites that provide website value estimations, and once again a website's Alexa rank is used when making their calculations. Businesses such as these feel that the Alexa rank to be a very useful tool in determining the overall popularity of a site and in turn the potential financial viability of the site.


A high Alexa rank could imply high traffic and this often attracts advertisers when looking for potential advertising space. For those looking to move into the affiliate marketing industry, a high Alexa rank is often required by product and service sellers before they allow membership to their affiliate programs. This way they feel confident that their products or services are being advertised by sites with good traffic and therefore a good reputation. Websites with lower ranks are often rejected.


Tracking the movement of a site's Alexa rank is a very important practice for any web developer or blog owner. By keeping a close eye on the movement of the Alexa rank in relation to changes made to the site, a web developer or blog owner can make informed judgements on the effectiveness of changes or additions to the site and then act accordingly. But Alexa.Com does not offer tracking facilities to any websites that are ranked over 100,000 and as a result the only way to track changes has been to visit Alexa.Com every day to obtain the results yourself and record them in your own way. Perhaps as a spreadsheet or in a note book.


I am very pleased to announce that a new tool has been developed that does allow any site's Alexa rank to be tracked automatically and recorded for 90 days. The tool will then display the results in a graphical way as well as offer CSV data downloads. You can find this new Alexa tracking tool at www dot trackalexa dot com


In conclusion, although a million or two Alexa toolbar users and Alexa widgets cannot give us an exact ranking on the popularity of every website currently being served to the world wide web, the information Alexa provides can give us a basic idea on the general traffic a site receives and where the traffic is mostly being referred from. Alexa rank is important to any website because it provides recognition, increases the potential of monetization and provides important information that will help web developers improve the quality of their sites by improving the sites visitor experience. So tracking your site's rank is exceptionally important and if you are not lucky enough to have a rank higher than 100,000 you can now do this at www dot trackalexa dot com

Quarkbase is a free-tool to find complete information about a site. It is a mash-up of over 30 data-sources and numerous algorithms gather information from web on a range of topics like communal popularity, traffic, related people, etc. - and yes, actually complete starting from delicious, digg, technorati, reddit links ratings until RSS readers and traffic stats.

I like high rank on google than alexa rank

Alexa rank is absolute and very accurate.

I like alexa rank then google page rank........

Originally Posted by robin chris

I like alexa rank then google page rank........

Same.. cuz it ranks me higher

An essay sort of introduction , thanks for sharing mate..

Great guys.