http://the-small-internet-business-blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/measuring-search-rank-of-this-blog.html
and the Top One 500 to One Million sites in the World.
http://the-small-internet-business-blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/top-500-sites-on-web.html
So what has happened to the search rankings of this blog, and several other sites we run since then?
Where were we?
Back in mid February this blog, my career blog: http://careerblog.owenmcnamara.com/ and our new and very rough at the time company website: http://www.knowledgestream.com.au/ were all unranked. That is if you went into Alexa (http://www.alexa.com/) there was insufficient data for any of our new sites and so they had no ranking.
Now where are we now?
Today this blog ranks at 3,400,745
(http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/the-small-internet-business-blog.blogspot.com)
The Career Blog ranks at 2,503,229
(http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/next-career-move.blogspot.com)
Our company website, definitely better than it was, ranks at 2,093,571 (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.knowledgestream.com.au)
My new, as yet empty, WordPress (or Joomla and Wordpress - still thinking on that) blog ranks at 3,220,059 (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/owenmcnamara.com)
And our new e-commerce web site, launched just one month ago already ranks at: 1,456, 787
How we did that, in such a short time, is a long story and I will put together a blog sometime. I wonder where all those sites and more will be in 3, 6, 9 months from now? I expect they will slowly grow and then plateau, but I am not sure what the level of that is as yet.
To put those numbers above in perspective go to the SiteInfo section of Alexa (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo) and try out a few company sites you know to see where they are. Some will be very high and some much lower than you expect.
What does it all mean?
Does the Alexa ranking of your site matter? What is the relationship, if any, with the organic search results for your site? Should you care?
Well, like most things, it depends. I will continue this very interesting topic in my next blog later in the week.
Until then, below is a presentation I came across that has some useful information.
Owen
Top 10 SEO Public Relations Tips: TopRank
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