Showing posts with label traffic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traffic. Show all posts

Monday, August 2, 2010

Alexa Ranking


As we know, page rank is Google's View of importance of that page and it won't help for business, what about Alexa rankings. It is a tool that is used rank web site's traffic. And how far we can trust the Alexa rank to judge a web page. Whether the rankings given by them are based on the real traffic.

And i would say that like Google PR, we can neglect alexa rankings too. Those rankings are based on the users who were using Alexa tool bar. For that we won't need too much of traffic. Just install Alexa tool bar and reload a page regularly with the reload every Firefox addon. We can increase Alexa ranking with just two steps like this. And there are some other ways too.

Being in this Internet marketing field of nearly a year there are many conflicts about these rankings. Once there, its Google Page Rank. Many of the SEO people still giving much more importance for that. It's not even going to help the business at any level. Then the Alexa Ranking, for a site which is receiving say 1000s of visitors a day we can't say how many of the users used the alexa toolbar.

Many of the end users will not have the knowledge about these Alexa toolbar or rankings. Then how can we judge the web page's traffic with the Alexa rankings. And here after i will not consider about this Alexa ranking too. The Alexa rank and the page rank are only useful for the people who are going to sell a domain with better rankings.Just concentrate in Search Engine Rankings and get targeted traffic for this business.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Traffic from Stumbleupon


Traffic - the word that every optimizers working for. Now there are so many easiest ways to gain traffic for a site through PPC Campaigns. However we want some more money on those campaigns than a SEO campaign. The usage of social media sites like Twitter, Facebook also driving some traffic for the site.

How about this site - Stumbleupon. Another Social Networking Site which can provide better traffic next to Search Engines. But, what makes me confusing is, the page views shown in Stumbleupon profile is much more differ than the traffic shown in Analytics. The Stumbleupon shows views in hundreds and thousands. Whereas the analytics shows only tens and units. It's acceptable if the difference is marginal since it may shows every single page load. But there won't be a huge difference like this.

The URL shortener of Stumbleupon - Su.pr, comes with the description Drive more traffic with short urls, whether Stumbleupon too showing fake views as the other URL shorteners doing. Its still confusing.

You can check this with My Stumbleupon Profile itself. Check that with the site ZS Cart, in my profile its showing 704 views(on 6th July '10) but in analytics it shows the overall traffic from Stumbleupon is just 54. Such a huge difference.