I’m sure some of you may have been notified that Alexa.com upgraded their ranking system, but the changes really didn’t come through until just today. This is great news for the blogging community, they have effectively done away with the old system that relied much too heavily on the installed “alexa.com toolbar” to track traffic. :)

You’ve heard my complaints, and I think they were well-backed. Just take a look at how much my ranking has jumped since they updated the system!

Alexa has noted a few major differences in the way they are ranking websites. First, and most interesting, is that they are now using more sources of data “to give a better indicator of a website’s popularity.” Other than this, they are also grabbing more accurate (normalized) readings from different countries.

Long-range graphs are history. I think this is a good move, because the old results should no longer be a factor. They try to back this by basically saying they weren’t “wrong” before, just different. That’s a bunch of baloney, the rankings were wrong before and they finally admitted to it by changing things around. ;)

Bottom Line: when a “new algorithm” changes your ranking so dramatically as it has done for mine (115,000 to around 55,000), you know something was wrong before. Old and outdated websites were getting much better rankings than they deserved. Now the power is to those that update often and actually grab new traffic!

-The Net Fool

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