Alexa and screenshot of site

[pmkpmk]

Hi,

my main site has a traffic rank of ~1.800.000 in Alexa. Alexa shows NO thumbnail for that site.

Another specialty product site of mine with only a few pages and a traffic rank of ~4.800.000 DOES have a thumbnail in Alexa.

Not that it is utterly important, but does anybody has an explanation?

[figment88]

Few things going on.

Those sites don't have that much traffic so they won't be crawled much by Alexa and less likely to have screenshots.

Up until about a week ago there screenshot program was busted (personal communiucation with Alexa).

You can get an image refresh in about 2 days by submitting here
[thumbnails.alexa.com...]

[cbpayne]

Why not just install the Alexa Toolbar on your computer and click on your site and some internal links 2 - 3 times day for a few weeks. That should get your Alexa ranking down to under 100 000 ... should get cralwed by them then :-) (it would be even better if you had a friend on a different IP address do the same) ....

[pmkpmk]

The Alexa bot is a frequent visitor on my site. I also noticed, that "something" from Alexa pays a visit each time your site is requested from within Alexa. Seems to be a "just checking it's still there" algorithm.

I have - like probably most webmasters - the Alexa toolbar installed. That's what probably brought me below the ~2.000.000 in the first place :-)

Another strange thing: even though I'm not under the top 100.000, still it shows a traffic diagram for my site...