10 May 2008

Does Alexa Rank Mean Anything ?

Posted by Mike Behnken, MS, CSCS

I have been keeping a watchful eye on my Alexa toolbar as of late. I have been getting over 1000 visitors a day to my exercise information site AskTheTrainer.com I knew the site would go up. To my surprise it went WAY up.

In just over 1 month since publishing the first page, I now have around 30 or so the Alexa Rank went from 9,000,000 to 478,641 From what I read, that is pretty good. It says my rank during the week was 83,032.

I’m pretty stoked about it but really need to get back to writing. It seems every time I get out of my writer’s block, I have something to do. I think it is very hard to write sometimes when I have like 20 things on my mind. I have Japanese class tomorrow and I haven’t did my homework yet, so there’s another distraction.
My San Francisco Personal Training Site’s Alexa Rank went up too. It currently sits at 610,782 which is not bad for a local site. I just spent a couple hours updating it for maybe the final time. I added a new google search which is way better than the old one.

On the subject of google, I was wondering how good a page rank 3 is? I have that on many pages and wonder if I can shoot for higher or I should just count my blessings. My youtube channel also increased in Alexa ranking all the way to 1.6 Mil. I have erroneously putting the wrong link on all my sites and posts for my youtube channel. It should be http://youtube.com/user/askpersonaltrainers, not http://youtube.com/askpersonaltrainers

I actually should go back and update all my blog posts, strictly for SEO purposes. I had a chance to talk to a friend of a client who is a big database guy. His gaming site is crispygamer.com which has climbed high in the traffic ranks and gets over 500k visitors a month.

I’m sure I had a bunch of questions for him, but forget to ask :( I hate when I forget something I previously wanted to ask. I would have asked him a question about joomla which I was recommended to solve my javascript needs by some forum moderator.

I went to the joomla website and was astonished how confusing their site was. Maybe it’s just me, but I couldn’t find anything I needed to figure out. I’m looking for a popup which I can install on my site, which looks exactly like kontera ads.

I want to have a dictionary on my website. There will be html pages with the definitions, but I want to have javascript popups to come up when a user hovers the mouse over the word for 2 or 3 seconds. I know how you can add the built in popup with the <SPAN title=" description here " class="popup">text</SPAN> tag, which I like, but I my idea has more flexibility.

If anybody knows any programs or anything, please let me know. I’m not an expert in any code so it probably has to be template based. I’m willing to buy a script.

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