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My Alexa went from 10M to 1.3M in a little over two weeks. In the last few days, the decline has been steady and slow. However, after several days of decline, it went up slight by about 1000 points. I'm still at 1.3M, but slightly higher. I'm baffled and disappointed. I'm trying to get it below 1M within the next couple of weeks.

I've been consistently writing posts, commenting on other sites, and participating in the Yakezie forum. But yet, it went up. Is this natural?

Also, I've gotten about 4 new nofollow links from other sites. Could that be the reason?

Anthony,

I check these forums pretty often and it seems like you are OBSESSED with metrics.  I will be as honest and possible…you are going to quit blogging unless you change your views.  It is not a maybe, it is a certainty. PR, Alexa, Quantcast, etc., yes they are important but when you only have a 60 posts (at 4 a week we are talking about 15 weeks of blogging) they don't mean shit.

Just keep plugging along and ignore the noise for a bit!

P.S. can we laugh together about the irony that your latest post is about ignoring negative voices…

Don't be too concerned about it. It will fluctuate, and 1000 is really not much. It will also drop a lot slower once you get out of the millions – and even slower when you get under 300K or so. That's ok. It's a process, and really, Alexa doesn't matter. It's just a fun metric.

Daisy said:

Don't be too concerned about it. It will fluctuate, and 1000 is really not much. It will also drop a lot slower once you get out of the millions – and even slower when you get under 300K or so. That's ok. It's a process, and really, Alexa doesn't matter. It's just a fun metric.

I appreciate that, Daisy. Thank you.

Glencap said:

I know I haven't built it yet. I understand slow and steady. I was a bit perplexed, and needed a little clarification as well as a little bit of reassurance and encouragement. I know that there's no rush. I'm not rushing anything. I'm just doing the work. I look at my stats just to see how things are moving. And if something seems a bit out of place to me that I don't understand, then I feel that I should ask. This is not about focusing too much on my stats. If anything, I try to focus more on my content. What has this got to do with negative voices? Gee whiz!

In any case, thank you for your input, and I'll take your suggestions to heart.

You're definitely doing great, Anthony, so don't get discouraged (also, I didn't intend to suggest that you were doing anything wrong, I really enjoy interacting with you here and around the blogosphere.)  Definitely keep up the good work and touch base often!

Glencap said:

MyJourneytoMillions said:

Anthony,

 

I check these forums pretty often and it seems like you are OBSESSED with metrics.  I will be as honest and possible…you are going to quit blogging unless you change your views.  It is not a maybe, it is a certainty. PR, Alexa, Quantcast, etc., yes they are important but when you only have a 60 posts (at 4 a week we are talking about 15 weeks of blogging) they don't mean shit.

 

Just keep plugging along and ignore the noise for a bit!

 

P.S. can we laugh together about the irony that your latest post is about ignoring negative voices…

I think it's a bit cruel for you to suggest that I seem obsessed with metrics when all I'm trying to do is make sense out of what I don't understand. I've seen others on the forum ask blogging and metrics questions, and it never seemed to be a problem. I've done my best to be as supportive as I can on the forum, as well as ask questions about certain things that bugged me regarding my blog. I didn't come here to be ridiculed by you or anyone else, and I won't tolerate this type of mean-spirited behavior from you. And, this not about negative voices…. It's about seeking valuable information, so that I can get better. How dare you tell what I will end up doing when you don't even know me. If my questions bug you to the point where you feel like you have to be nasty, then do me a big, big, big favor and "step the f… off". How's that for irony? Would you like to share a laugh about that?

Anthony, I don't think Evan (or I) were trying to be negative or anything like that and, if anything, we were just trying to suggest that you've done nothing wrong and stats are really tough to understand (I definitely don't get them all).  I don't want to put words in his mouth but he's definitely been very helpful to a bunch of people and think he was just trying to help, give you a pep talk. 

Also, my reference to the post was also tongue in cheek, suggesting that, while useful to some extent, it's really just noise and not very important yet.  I hope I didn't offend you; I certainly was just trying to give somewhat of an Alexa is a bit random because it involves the toolbar as well as both your traffic and that of other blogs.  The only thing you can control is the content and your interaction, both of which you're ROCKING! 

Glencap, it takes a long time to see results on a blog. Many people expect instant results after a few weeks or even after a few months. This isn't realistic, you need to be in this game for at least a year before you see significant results.

Just keep plugging away man! Quit worrying about checking your stats regularly, focus on content and quality, and just do it! The rankings will come in time.

Cheers

I would suggest spending a weekend just reading the boards going back a month or three.  All of your questions are almost guaranteed to be answered in a thread that someone else had already asked.  The questions you have are questions that everyone has at one point early on in their blogging endeavors.

Now, for my personal insights.  Alexa shouldn't matter to you very much right now.  You need to be concentrating on building a solid reader base that will interact with you.  The fact you visit other sites and comment, and come into the forums to post, doesn't automatically equate to people coming to your site.  You need to make it worth their time to read your posts and to comment on them.  This isn't for everyone.  I care about engagement on my site, on facebook (sort of), google plus and twitter. The number of visitors, Alexa rank, subscribers aren't worth a damn to me if I am only talking to myself with no one responding.  

Shift your focus away from the numbers for now, write consistently good material, interact with others all over the place, worry about community. Everything else will fall into place if you do all those things.

Oh, and please make sure to go back and read all of the board posts for a few months so you can self-answer as many possible concerns your may have.  There is a large amount of information that has already been passed on.  Trust me, I know first hand!

Eric J. Nisall said:

I would suggest spending a weekend just reading the boards going back a month or three.  All of your questions are almost guaranteed to be answered in a thread that someone else had already asked.  The questions you have are questions that everyone has at one point early on in their blogging endeavors.

 

Now, for my personal insights.  Alexa shouldn't matter to you very much right now.  You need to be concentrating on building a solid reader base that will interact with you.  The fact you visit other sites and comment, and come into the forums to post, doesn't automatically equate to people coming to your site.  You need to make it worth their time to read your posts and to comment on them.  This isn't for everyone.  I care about engagement on my site, on facebook (sort of), google plus and twitter. The number of visitors, Alexa rank, subscribers aren't worth a damn to me if I am only talking to myself with no one responding.  

 

Shift your focus away from the numbers for now, write consistently good material, interact with others all over the place, worry about community. Everything else will fall into place if you do all those things.

 

Oh, and please make sure to go back and read all of the board posts for a few months so you can self-answer as many possible concerns your may have.  There is a large amount of information that has already been passed on.  Trust me, I know first hand!

Good points! I appreciate your feedback and advice. Thanks a millions.

MyJourneytoMillions said:

Didn't mean anything mean spirited…just calling them like I see it.  Am I wrong have you not asked 7 different metric questions in 132 posts here? 

But your response has pushed me towards the I don't give a shit end of the spectrum.  Good luck, I am sure others here will help you out. 

Great! Call it as you see it. That's your business. I don't know whether you're right or wrong about the number of metrics questions that I've asked thus far, and quite frankly I don't even see where it matters. My point is that asking 2, 50, 132, 232 does not automatically equate with my being obsessed with the metrics. A bit too inquisitive or concerned, maybe! But obsessed? Gee, thanks! I don't just think it was just my response that pushed you towards the "I don't give a shit end of the spectrum" as you so eloquently put it. It's your attitude. Thanks for your help anyway, and good luck to you as well. End of discussion!!