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Alexa - Overview

 
    Alexa.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.com. This is a website which provides information about millions of sites on the web, like traffic facts, information about the owner, competitors etc.
Alexa has developed an installed based of millions of toolbars, one of the largest Web crawls and an infrastructure to process and serve massive amounts of data.
The Alexa rank is measured according to the amount of users who’ve visited a website with the Alexa toolbar installed.
Alexa is based on the participation of the Alexa Toolbar community. Each member of the community participates in the ranking process. Simply by using the toolbar, each member contributes valuable information about the web, how it is used, what is important and what is not. This information is returned to the community as Related Links, Traffic Rankings and more.
Alexa does not give its rank by combination of few factors like the search engines; In fact it is compiled by website traffic analysis of browsing information by website surfers / visitors using the Alexa Toolbar.
So that means, the more visitors with Alexa Toolbar you have, the more visits will be logged by Alexa and you will get a higher Alexa ranking.
What is your websites Alexa Rank? If you do not know, then maybe you should check it out. Many users give this ranking big importance.
Read more about Alexa.com and how to increase alexa ranking
To download alexa tool bar:
For Internet Explorer - Click here
For Mozilla Firefox - Click here (SearchStatus)


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