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Enhance your presence on the Internet
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Popularity Ranking
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What is Your Website's Popularity Rank?There are more than 320 million websites in the world. Where does your website stack up? Thanks to Alexa, you can find out now! What is Alexa and Website Popularity Ranking?By evaluating the number of pages users visit combined with the frequency of return to a particular site, Alexa is able to assign your site a "Traffic Rank" or how you rate amongst the millions of sites in the world. Any rank over 500,000 is considered excellent. Any rank over 100,000 and you're considered a "Top Site." Find out YOUR web site's rank at Alexa
now! How do they do it?Alexa computes traffic rankings by analyzing the Web usage of over 10 million Alexa users. Every three months, traffic data (a combined measure of page views and unique visitors) is sorted, sifted, anonymized, counted, and computed, until, finally, we get the traffic rankings shown in the Alexa service. The Alexa user base is very large and is a very good representation of relative web traffic. And now Alexa has a seperate
toolbar that will give you a website's rank plus other recommended links anytime you surf the internet.
The toolbar is free - download yours now and watch it in action! Why doesn't my site show up?Perhaps your site is too new or has not had much traffic yet. If you would like to tell Alexa to "crawl" your site, then visit http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmasters/#crawl_site. Alexa will include your site in the next crawl of the web, usually within 8 weeks of submission.How is Alexa's Popularity Rank different from Google's Page Rank? Alexa
measures website popularity for a given domain name (ie. kestrel-designs.com) based on number and frequency of visits. Google
measures link popularity (ie. http://www.kestrel-designs.com/articles/popularity.html) based on search terms. Google uses a sophisticated algorithm for given search terms that are linked by other reputable sites (measured by how many sites link to them, in a never-ending cycle of reputation measurement). Those sites are then given a "rank" between 0 and 10. The more a website page matches the keyword search algorithm, the higher the "rank" assigned to that page. (Ranks of 7+ are rarely seen on smaller websites. Those numbers are usually reserved for the big sites such as Google, AOL, MSN, etc.) Learn More... Where to next?I want to learn more about: Google Page Rank | Search Engine Optimization | Other Articles |
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