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Did Alexa miss the real traffic of your web site?
I believe that you do something about it.

How to Improve Your Alexa Ranking

Install Sparky: Alexa Toolbar

You can install your Firefox Alexa Toolbar and set your own site as your default home page. Your own traffic to your site may contribute a bit. But nobody can really understand how they calculate the ranking.

Alexa Widget does not help Alexa Ranking – Proven or Not

Someone post a blog saying he has proven that Alexa Widget is useless in helping your Alexa ranking. The reason:

To prove my point, I checked the code of the alexa widget which is a script pointing to a .js script. Curiously, I opened it and to my surprise found nothing but three functions, namely: AlexaSiteStatsWidget (For getting the code of the widget) , getFullURL(For getting the webite’s URL) and encode64(For putting both onto the page).

This observation is not really correct as fwaggle.org said

What browser you use, what operating system you use, your geographic location, and how many times you’ve been to the site – all of these things can be trivially tracked just by you loading an image from a remote server. The fact there’s no obvious javascript to track this information doesn’t mean that it’s not done.”

I agree with Fwaggle in that point. Whether or not Alexa put that tracking into their ranking calculation is always a myth.( or trade secrete?)

It doesn’t hurt much if you just put it on your site. So one way that may help Alexa record your traffic like Sparky is to put Alexa Site Widget on most pages of your site like this one:
<SCRIPT type=’text/javascript’ language=’JavaScript’ src=’http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/s/a?url=99people.com’></SCRIPT>

<SCRIPT type=’text/javascript’ language=’JavaScript’ src=’http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/s/a?url=chinesebay.com’></SCRIPT>

( I know the ranking is low now. Kaibo2.com was one higher ranking than 200,000 , the bigger the number, the lower the ranking )

Update Site information

Update Alexa Site Information using their Site Owner Tools at http://www.alexa.com/edit/ This may be pretty useful for brand new domain.

To many people, Alexa ranking does not mean anything because they complain about its inaccuracy. Estimates or stats may never be accurate, but still it is a benchmark, something better than nothing. Some people sing praise about Compete, but their number can be much worst when we look at my clients’ site rankings and their web server logs and Google Analytics as they do not listen to users’ input and feedback, only doing what they ‘think’ is correct.

It was still working yesterday. But today all is changed, for the good, I hope.
Alexa site traffic ranking interface change happened today. It breaks Firefox Extension Search Status and Opera Wedgit Alexa Site Info. When click from the Extension, we got “Page Not Found” http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=kaibo2.com. I hope the author can update with the change soon.