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What is Alexa Ranking?

Date Added : June 16, 2010 | Views : 1362



Alexa is a tool used mainly by techies, but it is rapidly becoming the general population using the Internet. Alexa is a very powerful tool to visualize and compare the website traffic of a site for the rest of the web. Basically, Alexa says that this is the most visited site on the Internet. But what is Alexa and how to rank sites?

Alexa is a company owned by Amazon.com which has as main objective to improve the web browsing through the participation of its users. Ranking does much more than simple Web sites rank, but also have data services and services designed to improve the webmaster of the site. However, the focus of this article is the Alexa ranking system.

First, to see even a ranking on a site that has to go to www. alexa.com and type of site you want information and do what most people do: install the Alexa toolbar on your browser. When installing the Alexa toolbar in your browser any site you visit displays your Alexa ranking in the toolbar. Just click on this ranking (a number), and then be directed to the Alexa website, where you can get more information on the website, including comments posted by users and viewing a detailed traffic analysis for the site. But the most important aspect of the installation of the toolbar is that you can not see the listing of a site easy, but installing the Alexa toolbar every site you visit is monitored and recorded by Alexa. Now Alexa is not keep up with you, but this is how they rank sites.

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