Alexa And Wealthymatters

Alexa is one of the big players in the search engine business, though its nowhere the size of Google .It  has been around since 1996. Alexa is a subsidiary of Amazon.com. Alexa  gives detailed site metrics and traffic reports with its search results, that a large number of tools and people,especially advertisers, use when evaluating a blog. Also, Alexa has an extensive set of APIs and web services that are commonly used by a large number of third party search tools.So a good Alexa rank is pretty important.

As Wealthymatters got into the List Of Top 30 Personal Finance Blogs In India via the Alexa India rankings, I decided to get to know about Alexa. The first thing that struck me was how Alexa merely counts the people who have the Alexa Toolbar installed.These are mainly SEO experts and other tech savvy people.So Wealthymatters traffic is bound to be under reported.To count every visitor, I now have the Alexa Traffic Widget installed on my blog.You can get one for your blog here:Link .Unfortunately installing these widgets on WordPress.com blogs is not straight forward.You have to use the Firefox browser and open the Alexa page and generate the code and image of the widget first.Then right click on the image and select the ‘copy image location’option. Then you have to use notepad to edit the code you have copied so that it reads :- Read more of this post