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I have submited our site to Alexa and it started with a rank around the 4 million mark it has in just two and a half month dropped to a little over the one hundred thousand mark. My question, is this common for sites to drop fast with Alexa and is Alexa a valid tool for webmasters to find their overall site rank?
Also some types of sites, eg those related to web developement for example, will have a user base more likely to use the toolbar, and so can have an artificially high ranking.
Basically they are mildly interesting but pretty useless.
alexa is spyware IMHO. It tracks user information and sends it back to Alexa for ad processing
And this has what to do with the question being asked?
Getting back to the original question, your initial rank was basically "unranked", because Alexa hadn't known about your site previously. Subsequently, you became ranked. Any rank higher than 100,000 is irrelevant. The rank is the relative popularity among those who use the Alexa toolbar. Obviously this does have some bearing, and as the Alexa rank is averaged out over 3 months, unless you are using their toolbar and revisiting hourly every day, the results will be fairly pertinent - I can not see anyone else spending hours everyday for a few months visiting just to try and skew your site's rank!
Matt
