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QUESTION:

How important is a good Alexa ranking and how do I improve mine?

ANSWER:

The quick answer is that your Alexa ranking is unimportant.

First, a bit of background for those who may not be familiar with Alexa. Alexa offers a toolbar for download that has a bunch of features. It calculates 'site rankings' based on how many toolbar users visit a website. That is, the more traffic a website gets from Alexa toolbar users, the higher that site's 'rank'.

Alexa is primarily used by 'marketing' people, and since its rankings are taken only from those who use the toolbar, it's not a particularly good measure of traffic.

However, that's not the primary reason why your Alexa ranking isn't important.

It isn't important because you're presumably after sales and profits, not an ego-boosting 'site rank'. I'm sure you'll agree that a website that makes $100 a day with just 100 visitors is better than a site that makes $10 a day with 500 visitors.

My advice? Don't sweat it. :-) Concentrate on bringing in sales instead.

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