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Hey all,

I just got assigned my very first Alexa rank on Financial Ramblings and I thought I'd post it here for posterity. This is a brand new site, launched eight days ago, and my rank is currently…

Wait for it…

11,743,192

So I only need to drop by 11,543,192 slots. Any bets on when I'll get there?

I'll update periodically as I make my way down toward respectability.

Thanks, michael

Just keep up with consistent postings and you'll automatically get most of the way there without having to exert much effort over that.  I'd also recommend learning SEO and posting about what readers will like to see, not only what you feel like writing.  The more "rankable" posts you have (on topics people are searching for), the more important your site will become.

Welcome to the challenge! Alexa falls like rain around here.

Day #2 with a ranking and I've dropped to 4,463,288. That's an improvement of 7,279,904 slots…

Another day like this and I'll be at -2,816,616 tomorrow. :-)

I'm kidding, of course. Regardless, I'm sure there's a very long (and flat) tail with things like Alexa rankings so it's very easy to move up early on. That is, the difference between 10 million and 5 million in terms of raw Alexa visitor #s (which is really what we're measuring here; it's not necessarily well correlated with raw traffic) can't be that great.

michael @ financial ramblings said:

Day #2 with a ranking and I've dropped to 4,463,288. That's an improvement of 7,279,904 slots…

Another day like this and I'll be at -2,816,616 tomorrow. :-)

 

Congrats, Michael! I'm still waiting for my Alexa ranking to come through. Hoping to see drastic change in number like that. Psyched! Keep up the good work.

Post edited 9:57 am – September 19, 2012 by michael @ financial ramblings

Day #3, ranking is unchanged from Day #2.

Don't worry, I don't plan on doing daily updates forever. Just trying to get a feel for the "pulse" of Alexa and I thought others might be interested. Will probably update this thread (when I think of it) for a little while, though.

Edit to add: Actually, it did update later in the day. Now at 3,024,367… Another day, another 1.4 million improvement.

Haha like all blogging stats, I've found it's so easy to become obsessed. I created an Evernote page for myself and although I'll look at my Alexa rank every day, I only really pay attention once a week and I'll just log the number, improvement over the last week, and then chart it.

The rankings seem incredibly dynamic. Just for fun I checked the current rankings of several of the member sites and most of them are way off from their listed ranking on the members page. It's a real reminder that even once you've established a great blog, blogging is never "passive" income. It requires a lot of ongoing work and dedication.

Gen Y Finance Journey said:

The rankings seem incredibly dynamic.

Yeah, I'm mostly tracking this to see where the free fall stops and the real work begins.

Day #4: 2,583,750 — improved by roughly 0.5 million.

I'm becoming fascinated with Alexa rankings. I was just on the website of one of the top law firms in the world, and their Alexa ranking is in the 100k's – significantly higher than Yakezie and many of its members! It's a little daunting to think that my goal is to get my blog to the same status as the website of a top global law firm.