I’m ranked on Alexa!
Not that I’m ranked highly, quite the opposite, at 15,926,847 I’m probably about as low as Alexa rankings get (look out, 15,926,846, I’m gunning for your spot!). If you’re unfamiliar with Alexa, it’s a subsidiary of Amazon that tracks website traffic. You can download the SearchStatus toolbar for Firefox, and it’ll track the sites you hit, adding to their Alexa rankings. What this really means is that web developers – who are the people most likely to even know about Alexa’s existence, much less use it – are the ones who decide which sites are highest ranked. So the Bible was right, the geeks will inherit the earth.
Warning: some consider the toolbar to be spyware or adware, so take that into consideration before you download it.
I could, theoretically, try to get my friends and family to use the toolbar and visit my site in an attempt to increase my ranking, but that’d be an exercise in futility. My family has steadfastly refused to ever look at my blog here, and, oh yeah, I don’t have any friends. In fact I don’t think one single person other than myself has ever been here.
If you use Alexa, please comment and tell me your opinion, I’d love to hear it.
You do so have friends! Who have been here! It’s just that at least one of your friends (hi) sucks about following blogs, or about commenting when she does.
Actually I started to make a comment the first time I visited – you only had two posts up, I think – but.. I don’t remember what happened, either I decided that what I was going to say was stupid or the internet went down or something shiny distracted me…
I don’t use Alexa or anything similar – when I first started blogging I was insane about checking stats; I even kept a spreadsheet in Excel (I shit you not) with ISPs so I could see how many people were “regulars” and how many were just flybys. Now… I don’t think I’ve checked my stats or referrals or numbers in more than a year. Anyway, I just went to their site and all I can find is “no data” and that I’m not in the top 100,000 – according to at least one “check your Alexa ranking” site, I’m at 0. LOL!
My Alexa rating has actually gone down since then (aw!). Oh well, not like I was going to make huge stats there anyway.