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Alexa is based on the number of people who go to your site with the Alexa toolbar installed, so there's a weak link between total traffic and Alexa rank.

 Lots of webmaster traffic (even a few people a day) is a pretty easy way to get a low Alexa.  Yakezie member traffic is especially important, since we all have the bar installed.  

Post edited 3:20 pm – May 26, 2011 by JT_McGee

March – 1864 uniques, Alexa around 300k 

April – 2,143 uniques, Alexa wavering around 200k

May – 2400-2700, depending on Google gods, and Alexa right at 199k

May traffic is far more SE dominant this month than the other two.  So far in May, 49% is search engine, 36% is referral (blog carnivals, commenting…mostly Yakezie blogs), 15% is direct.  March and April had a lot of social bookmarking traffic, this month there has been 0.  Social bookmarking brings more Alexa traffic (lots of webmasters/SEOs/SEMs/SMOs use it), search engines are weak on the Alexa end.  Referral traffic is probably in the middle…if it's Yakezie members coming through referrals then ballin! Otherwise, middle of the road in terms of % Alexa.

Another variable worth considering is posts per week.  I think daily posters get a one-up here, since you get 20 posts a month X 3 months.  I post…oh, maybe 2.5 times a week, on average.  Posting 5 times a week would probably be an easier way to beat Alexa, but I just couldn't do it.

Edit: I'm a moron…I just saw your PM.  I post these publicly anyway, so whatever.

I don't think there is any direct correlation.

We found that when we joined the challenge a number of people started to check us out but i'm not sure that number increased significantly after the first 6 weeks, if at all – and since we completed the challenge at 8 weeks our rank continued to drop for another month but since then it has creeped back up.  Our traffic is growing as per our uniques and the comments we get – but those comments are increasingly from people outside the network.

At best, Alexa is a weak indicator of a site's popularity.  I say weak, because, as others have pointed out, it only indicates popularity among those who have the toolbar installed.  You're real indicator of popularity/success is your traffic and subscriber numbers.  If those are increasing, then you're doing well.  For instance, when I began the Yakezie challenge, I was getting somewhere around 15-30 unique visitors a day.  Now, through participation in Yakezie and improving my blog and blogging, I get 60-75 uniques a day.  Of course, my alexa has gone down, but I don't think you can draw the direct correlation that you're looking to.  Keep involved in the group, and with other blogs, grow your blog and build upon your blogging/writing skills.  That's the sure way to success.

My Alexa has been doing crappier as of late… my page views are also down a bit but I remember I was able to get this Alexa with half the page views in the past. I think it depends mostly on how much referral traffic I get; SE traffic doesn't seem to alter it much.