Don’t take in consideration Alexa Traffic Ranking

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Many of you think that Alexa Rank is important, but it’s not important at all, you’ll be disappointed to find out that your traffic will not increase significantly if you’re planning to advertise on websites with a high rank. Why? Because Alexa has a stupid way of ranking websites, based on users that have Alexa Toolbar installed which comes with Internet Explorer and so it cannot be thought of as an unbiased statistical measure.

I got fooled a few times by this ranking method, when I tried to buy a link and I thought that by comparing the traffic rank from one of my websites (around 2100 unique visitors/day | Alexa: 75223) with the sellers website rank (Alexa: 32400) will result in a precise number of uqv/day. But it was all wrong, until I asked the owner for some serious statistics and I found out that he had less traffic than me (around 1600/day). This means that he had many more visitors with Internet Explorer browsing his website.

A big problem nowadays is that Alexa Rank is taken in consideration when buying links or ad spaces (ex: text link ads) because publishers can set a higher price per link if they have a nice rank. There are a few ways to increase your Alexa rank but in my opinion it’s a waste of precious time, here is a little list of things you should do:

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Domain names researching

Domain names are very important for SEO when you try to build a niche website that will bring you money. All internet monetizers know that buying a domain that contains one or two keywords is better than having a subdomain with the same words.
When researching for domain names try to locate names with as many important keywords for you. If you don’t find your desired domain name, try using dashes.I think and from my experince, seperating the domain with dashesis good for serch engine optimization, for example www.computerparts.na the google bot tends to take the domain as it is and it will interpret it like www.computerp arts… using dashes is easyer for the bot to read.

So for customer friendly domains try to chose short names that can be memorated by people, easy to type and good for branding. For search engines and niche websites that help you make money try to chose long, keyword rich names that can be easy to find.

Oh, and for the domains you can chose from all the extensions because they are all treated the same by bots, especialy by the google bot, (content has a big influence for this), but if you don’t want to lose some traffic try tor register the dot com domain because people tend to memorize and type this extension first. Good luck with your domain hunting