July 20th, 2007 | Internet
For those of you who care about your Alexa ranking, they have released a toolbar for firefox.
It’s relatively small and out of the way, you can almost forget that it’s there - down in the lower right corner, and a ‘Related Links’ menu is placed on the top menu bar.
To me, Alexa ranking was always a bit useless but I believe that Text Links Ads uses your ranking to help determine the cost for your site.
So all you Firefox users get off your lazy bums and go download the toolbar!
Tokio |
Only thing alexa is good for is getting the general direction of a site (up or down), that’s about it.
I personally use the search status extension, shows Alexa, Pagerank, and Compete rankings.
I got it just for testing out purposes and I actually like the little bugger. I’m keeping it ^_^
I think alexa’s rankings are crap though but at least now (hopefully) the rankings will be a little better
I don’t think alexa toolbar will have a large effect on the ranking of your own website. I heard that installing the widget will track visitors to your site, so I have done it.
I’m not sure how much it will effect it either. I had it installed for a day or so and then disabled it.
My site went from 190,000ish to 185,308 - but I don’t know if that was from having the toolbar installed or not.
How has the widget worked out for you? Any good?
My rank did improve after installing the widget. Summarised in this post:
http://komirad.com/use-alexa-widget-to-improve-your-alexa-ranking