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Hey guys,

After months of amazing Alexa drops, I have settled just below 100,000.  Can't complain, but now I sometimes see it going the other way.

How do you guys deal with this?  Could this be from Google's new formula?  Is this a just a natural blogging scenario?

Thanks!

Mine went from 100000 up to almost 150000.  Now back below 120000.  I was not as active as I was working on a special project/course.  Keep on keepin on. 

I noticed Crystal encourages her readers to install the toolbar.  Haven't tried that, and it should work.

I try to look at the long term progress.  I also have days now where it goes up, but I write down my rank once a month.  When I look a month later, it has always dropped overall (just not as quickly as I would like!). 

Craig – Free From Broke said:

Keep in mind that the usual rank you see is a three month average.  If you had a big bump 3 months ago then it could have dropped off the average.  Same if you had a recent traffic surge – you might see your Alexa going up for a bit as past lower-scored days fall off.

Thanks Craig, that is interesting advice that I did not know.  It also explains a lot, like why one day last week I could have a huge day traffic-wise and barely see a change while another day could be my worst day traffic-wise in ages and the next day my rank dropped a lot.  Made no sense! 

My ranking is still dropping but much slower than I would like!  It has taken me 12 days to drop 150,000 in the rank and I still have 130,000 to go to hit the 200,000.  Each day the drop seems a little smaller than before.  At one point I was confident I would hit it but now I am getting worried. 

It sure does slow down Buck.  Since we broke 100k just over 3 weeks ago we're down to 85,801 24 days later.  Long gone are the days of dropping 15k or even 30k in a day!

I completely understand your concern/interest. It can be kind of addicting to try and maintain steady progress downward. I compare the ranking bar with life itself; you will have ups and downs, but the long term (months and years) is what really matters.

Try not to get too hyped up in the day to day or month to month, as long as you are continuing your blogging activities.

That said, I'll cofess that I get influenced by the ranking ups and downs, and try not too look at it every day!

SPF,

Yeah takes some adjusting to.  If I'm lucky I get a 1,000 point drop.  You are a machine, 85,000?  That's impressive work!

everydaytips,

Yeah I'm just working on writing these days.  Seems to be paying off.  Thanks!

nerdwallet and mark,

Good point about traffic.  I'm trying not to get hung up on stats these days.  Alexa has been our main metric since the challenge.  Weird when it doesn't drop or even goes the other way.  I'll adjust.  Thanks!

Barb,

Gonna focus on blog activities, too!

RB40,

Hopefully one day I'll get to 70K.  Congrats on your traffic!

Ha! I cracked the 200k mark, and got ready to write my Yakezie post. Now I'm back up to 237,000. One step forward, two back…

eemusings, I totally understand your frustration… I'll visit and try to help you out. 

Friday I had the best day that my site has ever seen, traffic-wise.  I logged in Saturday and expected to see a big Alexa drop and found hardly any change.  That happened once before… I had a great day and no change, then a couple days later I had a very bad day and the next day my ranking had dropped a lot.  I am just thrilled that my traffic seems to be increasing!