I admit that I love stats very much. Every point is counted. So when I woke up this morning and at opening blogjer, ah.. I see that blogjer’s Alexa rank has increased, so Alexa is still alive.. intermittently though.
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Couple of days ago, I read an article in Teknobites, TheInquisitr, Centernetworks, and other couple of blogs to see if Alexa rank is still alive and relevant and how often it is updated. I myself has written about the inconsistency of the Alexa update before.
I tried to refrain myself from looking on the article before April 15th, when Alexa announces the changes on how their ranking system work. Back then, the algo is totally useless and sometimes even sounds sarcastic.
Time will tell if Alexa can compete with the like of Compete and Hitwise.
If they are going to die soon, fortunately hubdub has prepared a tombstone for them.
photo: credit to dubdub
I know everyone loves ranking, so do I. In fact, ranking is one thing that motivates me to write and blog (other than $$$). The undisputed and most sought after, is nothing else than Google PageRank. Alexa ranking comes as the second most recognized ranking to me.
It’s been 2 weeks since Alexa changed how their ranking system works. Blogjer dropped 150k rank down to 300k from around 150K initially. And I’m not alone here. Almost all major blogs and websites experienced drop in ranking as well. I believe you’re one of the ‘victim’ too.
How hard had I achieved this rank, since I gave this blog a new life starting last December, but it’s gone in a blink of an eye. I’m not blaming Alexa though, even though I feel a little bit frustrated, since the old system is inaccurate. As most of us aware of, it was calculated mostly based on the number of hit from the visitors who has Alexa toolbar installed.
Well now, is the new system trustworthy? I know, it’s still 2 weeks, and if it is judged by the UAT (user acceptance test) that is normally done on newly deployed system, 2 weeks is too short (lol, but this is free system, so no UAT). But the new system must has been in Beta prior to roll out on all websites.
On the previous system, Alexa rank was updated on weekly or bi-weekly basis (but sometimes in months). So there is the questions popped out on my head
- How frequent Alexa ranking would get updated?
- At the moment, Alexa only calculating traffic for the past 9 month. When the rest of data will be in?
- How accurate the new system would be? What is the new rank algorithm?
I can’t wait to see the next Alexa rank update. Would blogjer.com get a better rank?? I wish to achieve the rank that I have had before, the least..
