ILovePhotoblogs.com Demographics – Alexa

ilovephotoblogscom traffic details from alexa1 ILovePhotoblogs.com Demographics   Alexa picturesSure you’re a photographer/photoblogger, but have you checked your Alexa data lately? If not,  you may notice some enhanced features and overall improvement in the application. Alexa, in the past, seemed to be slow to update traffic data and was a good place to research sites, other than your own. Recently, the frequency of the ranking appeared to be daily so I went to the site to check it out. I was impressed with the amount of data available for my site, particularly the demographics . Kinda cool! While my traffic is a victim of my ADD of late,  school is now over which leaves more time for photoblogging, or least writing about it.

Another cool feature I discovered was Clickstream. This is awesome info if you’re interested in knowing what site people were on before landing on your site and where they went upon departure. Looks like I need to mend a few fences with the good folks at Mixx.com (there seemed to be an issue over something about self-promotion)  for all the traffic they’re sending me.

Thanks again to everyone who visits us on a regular basis, especially all the grad school male Gen X-ers, with children, finding the time to browse us from home…your support is much appreciated!

How to quickly improve your Alexa rank

Improving my Alexa rank for ILovePhotoblogs.com has become a primary point of interest. What is Alexa? Alexa.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.com and is a website which provides information on traffic levels for websites. The Alexa rank is measured according to the amount of users who’ve visited a website with the Alexa toolbar installed. Having said that, let’s recap my initial goals with this project.

How to quickly improve your Alexa ranking? I have done several searches and one of the best I have found on this topic is 20 Quick Ways to Increase Your Alexa Rank. Here are just a few tips from the article I will be incorporating this week.

  • Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension
  • Write or Blog about Alexa. Webmaster and bloggers love to hear about ways to increase their Alexa rank. (One of the purposes of this posting besides my need to keep viewers updated on my progress.
  • Optimize your popular posts. Got a popular post that consistently receives traffic from the search engines? Include a widget/graph at the bottom of the post, link to your Alexa post or use Alexa redirection on your internal URLs. (Look at bottom of this post)
  • Create an Alexa category on your blog and use it to include any articles or news about Alexa. This acts as an easily accessible resource for webmasters or casual search visitors while helping you rank in the search engines.(Just did it)
  • Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website. I did this a few days ago and receive a fair amount of clicks every day. According to some, each click counts as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor.

Perhaps it is ego, but I want a better Alexa ranking. A few weeks ago when I started my ranking was around 4.5 million. Not much to write home about, that’s for sure. As I write this post, my Alexa rank is 1,029,023. Statistically a great improvement, but nowhere near the rank I wish to achieve. I know that one way to increase traffic is through better organic rankings with advanced link building tactics. So what is my Alexa rank goal? Well, my short term goal is to be under 100k by May 31. Not sure if this is realistic, but you need to have goals, so this is mine.
I will keep you posted as to any progress I have experienced using these techniques.

**updated May 09, 2008 – Alexa Rank is 371,595**