By A. Sayed
Every webmaster at some point starts to worry about his/her website's rankings and how much traffic the site is receiving on a daily basis. They work hard every chance they get to promote their site through social networks and by commenting on other blogs. But what happens when you work hard for a few hours per day and then you wait till the midnight update to check your stats only to find that you've gained nothing or at least nothing close to the amount of work you put into it?
In order to measure how fast your site is gaining traffic, you need to know what to check for and more importantly when to check. Two things that matter so much especially to advertisers when they evaluate your site are Alexa Rank and Google PageRank.
If you have an Alexa Rank lower than one hundred thousand, it simply means that your site is in the top 0.1 percentile which is an indication that your site has a high amount of traffic, however the quality of your site depends on the quality of back-links it has with other high quality sites. This is where Google PageRank play a very important role.
Google divided their page ranks between 1-10. Usually websites with a rank of at least 4 are considered very high on quality, and those with a page rank 6 or higher are considered superb. It's very difficult to get a page rank higher than 6 unless you're a big company or perhaps even a search engine.
This brings us to our main topic today of when should you check your website's stats? Alexa updates their ranks every night usually around midnight, so this means that if you left "DOFOLLOW" comments on high quality blogs then an hour later you check your Alexa Rank, you simply will not see any difference. You have to wait until Alexa updates their database.
Also if you leave your comments after an Alexa crawler had already visited that website and checked any new links coming out of it, then waiting for the midnight update still wont help, since Alexa already visited that website once that day, you're going to have to wait till the next visit by Alexa on the next day. Keep in mind that part of Alexa's evaluation to your site includes how many people visited your site while having the Alexa Tool-Bar installed.
Now, if you think that Google's page ranks are any easier, think again! Google usually updates its ranks once every few months, usually a few times per year. So if you keep checking your Google PageRank everyday especially if you're a new website, you will get discouraged and disappointed every time you check because not only is it very difficult to gain a rank with Google, it also takes a long time.
Make sure to do all your site promotions before any search engines (at least Google) or other services (such as Alexa) visit the sites your promoting on in order to make it into the update cycle of that day.
In order to measure how fast your site is gaining traffic, you need to know what to check for and more importantly when to check. Two things that matter so much especially to advertisers when they evaluate your site are Alexa Rank and Google PageRank.
If you have an Alexa Rank lower than one hundred thousand, it simply means that your site is in the top 0.1 percentile which is an indication that your site has a high amount of traffic, however the quality of your site depends on the quality of back-links it has with other high quality sites. This is where Google PageRank play a very important role.
Google divided their page ranks between 1-10. Usually websites with a rank of at least 4 are considered very high on quality, and those with a page rank 6 or higher are considered superb. It's very difficult to get a page rank higher than 6 unless you're a big company or perhaps even a search engine.
This brings us to our main topic today of when should you check your website's stats? Alexa updates their ranks every night usually around midnight, so this means that if you left "DOFOLLOW" comments on high quality blogs then an hour later you check your Alexa Rank, you simply will not see any difference. You have to wait until Alexa updates their database.
Also if you leave your comments after an Alexa crawler had already visited that website and checked any new links coming out of it, then waiting for the midnight update still wont help, since Alexa already visited that website once that day, you're going to have to wait till the next visit by Alexa on the next day. Keep in mind that part of Alexa's evaluation to your site includes how many people visited your site while having the Alexa Tool-Bar installed.
Now, if you think that Google's page ranks are any easier, think again! Google usually updates its ranks once every few months, usually a few times per year. So if you keep checking your Google PageRank everyday especially if you're a new website, you will get discouraged and disappointed every time you check because not only is it very difficult to gain a rank with Google, it also takes a long time.
Make sure to do all your site promotions before any search engines (at least Google) or other services (such as Alexa) visit the sites your promoting on in order to make it into the update cycle of that day.
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