I’m sure some of you may have been notified that Alexa.com upgraded their ranking system, but the changes really didn’t come through until just today. This is great news for the blogging community, they have effectively done away with the old system that relied much too heavily on the installed “alexa.com toolbar” to track traffic. 
You’ve heard my complaints, and I think they were well-backed. Just take a look at how much my ranking has jumped since they updated the system!
Alexa has noted a few major differences in the way they are ranking websites. First, and most interesting, is that they are now using more sources of data “to give a better indicator of a website’s popularity.” Other than this, they are also grabbing more accurate (normalized) readings from different countries.
Long-range graphs are history. I think this is a good move, because the old results should no longer be a factor. They try to back this by basically saying they weren’t “wrong” before, just different. That’s a bunch of baloney, the rankings were wrong before and they finally admitted to it by changing things around. 
Bottom Line: when a “new algorithm” changes your ranking so dramatically as it has done for mine (115,000 to around 55,000), you know something was wrong before. Old and outdated websites were getting much better rankings than they deserved. Now the power is to those that update often and actually grab new traffic!
-Jimvesting
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I think your right. Our ranking jumped up about 10,000 or so. Whether or not it’s 100% accurate, I doubt it but atleast it’s a closer estimate than before.
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It’s an interesting one.
No stats are accurate, and no stats are totally innacurate. Maybe the wording for Alexa was wrong. If they had said that the rank was purely based on how many people have their toolbar installed rather than say “it’s the website traffic”, then they wouldn’t have to change.
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April 19, 2008 at 5:36 pm #
@ Rhys: Yeah, you know it wasn’t the only metric they used, but they admitted that they followed the toolbar ratings far too heavily… which was pretty much agreed upon in the blogging world.
I think stats can be accurate, its just a shame that they aren’t sometimes
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This looks like it could help out my blog! Thanks
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I came to know about it 2 days ago.Well not much of improvement for me.
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I read about it somewhere too. I don’t remember where though. Anyways, good articles.
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This is great news though .. I’m glad they have made this big step. Will Alexa Rankings be respected this time? Probably.
Mine went down 20,000 points. While accuracy is good, I hope to see an increment in weeks ahead.
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I hope we figure out what their other sources are soon
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Alexa is just a part of measurement ,it might not determine everything about your blog.As long as we do our best to deliver the best to our readers and readers satisfy what they read.It is a good sign already.
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I havt see any changes for my ranking
No stats are accurate but it really help to know about the traffic
Wow thats a pretty good alexa rank, lol. I’m jealous…
There is some controversy over how representative Alexa’s user base is of typical Internet behavior. If http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=www.fortunehotels.in Alexa’s user base is a fair statistical sample of the internet user population, Alexa’s ranking should be quite accurate.