Anyone Still Using Alexa To Judge Traffic Levels?

Meh.

I've tried to understand how our membership can quadruple in the last year, our page views can septuple and our traffic can dectuple but our Alexa rating just goes up about double. I compare our traffic to the last site I worked for and see that their hills and valleys kinda match up.. when we have a spike, they have a spike, when we have a drop, they have a drop.

It's maybe a vague idea, but it's best to take a look a the 1 year look and not worry about the daily traffic.

It's also best to not worry about how much other people are making and look at your own bottom line... you have the members, you have the traffic, you have the revenue, then you just be happy and stop trying to positively comapre yourself to others...

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Originally Posted by Jasun

I've tried to understand how our membership can quadruple in the last year, our page views can septuple and our traffic can dectuple but our Alexa rating just goes up about double.

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That's probably because your site is moving into a new tier of competition. I don't imagine it is a linear formula that determines ranking. As you move higher up the ladder, you are fighting it out with other sites with similar traffic levels and it becomes more difficult to advance.

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Originally Posted by Xstr8guy

That's probably because your site is moving into a new tier of competition. I don't imagine it is a linear formula that determines ranking. As you move higher up the ladder, you are fighting it out with other sites with similar traffic levels and it becomes more difficult to advance.

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Thats exactly what it is Jim.

Unless you know how to 'inflate' the Alexa rankings of course, then you appear to have a lot more traffic than sites that are actually much larger and more popular than your own.

Common sense more than anything dictates that the higher up the Alexa rankings you go, the harder it is going to be to improve them, actually, thats pretty much the same for most things relating to web traffic.

Regards,

Lee