Wow my Alex rankings hitting the roof BUT no sales??

by smak
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I launched my website with inital Alex traffic ranking I remember to be at 6 million mark.

That was early January 2010. But now gradually every day the figure is coming down at alarming rate (remember in Alexa ranking, the lower the better).

So Now my site ranking is down to 937,419 as of today - that is from the 6 million mark it was at the start.

Thats probably due to concrete effort on my part to promote it. I have done some classified ad marketing, lot of directory submission, forum signature, created 2 blogs and have links coming to my site from few web 2.0 sites like squidoo, flickr, weebly, Issu and facebook. But I haven't done any article or ppc marketing.

Obviously I am chuffed at seeing the site's alexa ranking improving daily but yet I see no Sales yet. I suppose the conversion rate is too poor and thats what I need to focus on improving.

Anybody else also in the same boat as me on this one then?
#alex #hitting #rankings #roof #sales #wow
  • Alexa of 900,000 is too low to see sales. Anything above 300,000 in my experience is a marginal website with probably less than 100 unique visitors per day. That's what I've gathered off my own sites comparing Alexa rank and Google Analytics.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Why are you worried? You already are making $500/day...

    For the record: Alexa ranking is irrelevant (mostly). It is based on visitors who installed their toolbar.

    Do you track the actual number of visitors to the site with some kind of stats script?
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  • Profile picture of the author TheRichJerksNet
    Why are you paying attnetion to Alexa and not your own stats ??? Alexa stats are 100% wrong in 99% of the cases...

    James
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    • Profile picture of the author smak
      Very funny Istovan...u seem to have a keen eye for attention to detail
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      • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
        Originally Posted by smak View Post

        Very funny Istovan...u seem to have a keen eye for attention to detail
        Aha... especially when it comes about the correct spelling of my name
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  • Profile picture of the author MrDay
    What niche is this site for?

    You gotta remember, most people who have a Alexa toolbar are already Computer Savvy and probably also know a thing or two about banners, adsense and affiliate links. They are harder to sell to. I know, one of my blogs is in the "internet marketing" niche. It's my toughest sales because they all know what my purpose is, but it helps sharpen my skills.

    Another thing is your Alexa #'s are still quite high. Wait until you get closer to 100,000 and you'll start getting decent traffic.

    You need to be comparing actual click ratio to the amount of visitors, then your click ratio to how many conversions. Don't compare your sales ratio to your Alexa ranking.

    I hope that helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author NikkiG
    Traffic does not always equal buyers.

    I can get you 60000 visitors this month no trouble for under a hundred bucks...and not one of them is likely to buy.

    But your Alexa rank will likely get a great boost.

    Sure you need traffic but traffic quality, your offer and sales funnel are far more important than shear volume.

    Some people make six figures from 50 uniques a month....and their sites have so little traffic that Alexa doesn't really rate them....
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