Another follow up to my Alexa posts

The posts I am refereeing to are here and here

The Alexa rank of this site keeps climbing. I am pretty sure its because of blog items like this that are keworded to specifically bring in people that are interested in the Alexa rank, and are likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed, which in turn will increase the rank even further.

Although having a rank number associated with a site may see purely academic and of no real importance, some people do measure a sites worth based on this rank. Wikipedia is a classic example. If you try to put your own site onto Wikipedia, one of the factors people use to decide if your site is notable is to look at your Alexa rank.

Recently, one of my blogs inspired another web master who has in turn written about his experience of the Alexa rank and he has linked directly to my site. The very fact that he linked to me made me view his website and go through some pages with the Alexa tool bar turned on. This will have affected his Alexa rank. After writing this, I am going to head over there again and check out what else he has to say, hopefully he will do the same, and we will probably share some of the collective traffic targeted to finding more about Alexa.

To view the blog post I am talking about, click here