Alexa is a website which calculates the traffic your site receives from the number of people who visit it with the Alexa Toolbar installed. The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users. Advertisers use it to determine your site's worth......
Hence if you are looking to monetize your blog you have to increase your Alexa Page Rank so that you can leverage the Ad. market. Alexa is a subsidiary of Amazon.com. To see if you are listed in Alexa Directory go here and paste your link in the text box and click Directory Search. If you are not submit your blog to the Open Directory Project here. You can also search for your blog in Alexa Weblogs.
To see the traffic details for your site go to :
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=BLOG URL HERE
Paste your actual blog URL instead of the CAPS.DOWNLOAD ALEXA TOOLBAR
Download the Alexa Toolbar. The Alexa toolbar is a program written by Alexa Internet that users install into the browser. Every time the user changes pages, the Alexa toolbar communicates with Alexa servers to retrieve information which is then displayed in the toolbar. If you are using Internet Explorer, go here and download the Alexa Toolbar. If you’re using Firefox, download the SearchStatus extension which displays the Alexa Rank and Google PageRank. The search Status Extension loads in the bottom right frame of Firefox and you can right click it for more options. The Alexa Toolbar for Internet Explorer is added at the top. See Below :
To increase your Alexa Rank install the toolbar and set your blog as the homepage in your browser.ALEXA TRAFFIC RANK WIDGET
Put a Alexa Traffic Rank widget on your website. For this go to Alexa Site Widgets and choose one of the widgets and paste your blog url and click the Build Widget button. Copy the Html code given. Login to dashboard of blog and click on Layouts. Click Add Page Element and choose Html/Javascript option and paste the Alexa code in contents and save.AMAZON ASSOCIATE SITE REPORT
To get a report on any broken links on your site as well as any out of stock or hard to find Amazon Items visit Amazon Associate Site Report. Paste your site URL and email address and click on Run Report. Alexa will run a program, called a crawler or a robot, which will visit your site and all follow all links on your site, except those that are specifically excluded by your robots.txt file. Alexa will analyze all pages retrieved by the crawl, finding broken links, links to out of stock items and more. Alexa will e-mail the final report to you.
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How Juicy is Your Blog? |
You have been blogging for some time now. As shown in Submit Site you have submitted blog to search engines. You have also pinged the after every post as directed in Pinging Simplified. Your blog has become fatter and fatter with all that content, but is it juicy enough? Has it ripened? Where does your blog stand alongside its peers? Well, here is a site which tells how much 'juice' your blog has...... Technorati Tags:blog juice, alexa, technorati, bloglines
This site measures your blog juice based on four parameters :
1. Approximate number of Bloglines subscribers (weightage - 40%).
2. Alexa Rank for your site (weightage - 15%).
3. Technorati Rank of your site (weightage - 30%).
4. Inbound Links to your blog as per Technorati (weightage - 15%).
Taken together they estimate your Blog Juice on a scale of 1 to 10. To calculate your Blog juice head over to the Blog Juice Calculator. and paste your blog url in the field given. Next Choose the category your blog is in and instantly your Blog Juice is calculated and displayed as a badge. See below :
If you wish to compare your juice with some other site you can enter the url of the other site in the compare to box and click on Add.
You can also add this badge to your blog. Copy the code and paste it in a Html/Javascript Page Element in the sidebar. To add it see How to add Widgets to your blog.












