Alexa Poised To Reach a Milestone
No big news really, I’m just noting the fact that the Alexa ranking of this site is set to finally drop below a million. My experience with another blog has been that adding the Alexa widget and taking part in a normal amount of blogosphere social networking will quickly get your number below 500,000. As you rise in the ranks, gains are much harder to earn. I have a blog in the neighborhood of 300,000 and it is updated multiple times every day and I take part in lots of self promotion. I used to get improvements of over 10,000 every time Alexa updates. Now it is more like 3,000.
Alexa works quite a bit like the Nielson ratings, except for one crucial difference, if you find out about a group of people that have the Alexa toolbar, you can shamelessly target them, thus giving your website a misleadingly good ranking.
