Would You Add this as an Extra Key in Improving SEO?

[stacy131]

Today I went on the Alexa site to see if they noticed my site at all. Nothing, as usual, but I did come across their Alexa toolbar. Supposedly, if you use the Alexa toolbar, it makes it more likely for their crawlers to crawl the pages that you naturally visit.

Has anyone experimented with this? Does their toolbar truly do what it claims to? Also, the toolbar has different versions for IE and Mozilla. I run Vista so the only version available for me was the Mozilla toolbar. Does the browser make a difference in crawling as far as the toolbar goes?

This is of great importance to me because the thumbnail of my site that Alexa shows is almost half a year old and I have no ranking at all. I did submit my site to be crawled but saw no results. Therefore, any opinions as far as the Alexa toolbar may be of help.

As always, I appreciate the discussion.

[frederrick]

Hi,

Alexa toolbar is only for traffic statistic monitoring.

You should install the Alexa widget in your site.. that would be the best way for Alexa bots to crawl your site faster.


Regards

[dman_2007]

Not that it means much, but here's a way for you to increase your alexa rank. Install alexa toolbar in your browser (doesn't matter if it is IE version or Firefox version) and set your browsers homepage to your site, and you'll see a jump in your alexa ranking. If you can convince some of your friends to do this as well, you ranking will increase considerably.

[temyong]

Some are using alexa to compare competitors traffic but its not that accurate. And I don't use Alexa since then.

[x3mario]

Alexa is just an estimated traffic...not accurate and can be manipulated...

[stacy131]

dman, I already did that - had the toolbar and my site is my homepage. Guess I was accidentally doing the right thing.

The reason why I am interested in ranking high in Alexa - my site is an e-commerce site, I want to give off a professional look and add value to it down the road. It's not a casual site or a blog. I figured, what better way to add some value to your "internet piece of land" than ranking higher in Alexa? Down the road, I'm hoping that it will translate into better sponsors and advertisements, and who knows, maybe someone who wishes to purchase from my site will base their trust on my Alexa rank.

I think I should pay attention to Alexa. It's nothing extra out of my time and the toolbar at the bottom of my screen doesn't bother me at all. And it might be just that little extra push to beat my (almost non-existent) competitors and sit one step higher up.

[redeemer_spawn]

they are right., Alexa were just giving the estimated traffic of a site.,