Alexa Toolbar for Firefox
Alexa has released a toolbar for Firefox. Alexa measures web traffic of websites then ranks then according to their algorithm. The catch with Alexa is that sites that are visited by those who have installed the Alexa toolbar are the sites getting votes and have a better rating.
I use the Alexa toolbar in Internet Explorer for quite some time. My websites have slowly gotten a lower Alexa ranking. The lower the number is, the more traffic it is receiving. Recently I stated using the Firefox browser, so I haven’t been surfing in Internet Explorer. Yesterday I used Internet Explorer for the first time in about two weeks. I’ve noticed that my rankings have fallen slightly across the board. It makes me wonder just how much voting power one Alexa user has on the system.
Now I have the Alexa toolbar installed on Firefox, so we’ll see if there is a change in my rankings. I do like the toolbar better for Firefox as the rankings show up in the bottom right-hand corner.
The current ranking for SEODance is 442,585. Alexa updates their rankings at least twice a week. After the next update I will post the new SEODance ranking for comparison.
July 23rd, 2007 at 8:45 am
I tend to be against the Alexa toolbar (for the reason of the ranks being out of whack because of people who use the toolbar vs those who don’t), but as long as some major sites like to throw in the face of other sites “My rank is higher than yours!”.. it is of no use to fight it
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:32 am
[...] determined through Alexa tool bar users or through Alexa redirect links. Friday I had revealed the Alexa ranking for SEODance.com as 442,585. Usually rankings are updated over the weekend and during the week at least once. [...]