Alexa Ranking, Do I Care?
Today, I received a surprised back link from my good blogger colleague, Sir Azwan Hadzree, happily announcing that he has improved his 3 months old blog Alexa Rank. Yeah, we did thought of challenging each other on improving our Alexa rank but did not publicly announce it and the mutual agreement was signed about 3 months ago. However, due to 2 unique reasons, my Alexa not only dropped but I lost the saga. Those reasons are:
1) I forgot about the alexa war.
2) I was focusing on other net activities.
For record, presently, Azwan.my Alexa rank is 737,479 while cyza.us is 1,575,379. So, what should I do now? Should I challenge him again and try to kick his ass? Say another 3 months and we checked on our Alexa ranks and Google PR? What do you guys think? What do you think Azwan?
I’ll follow majority of the commenters input. Final decision will be made this Friday midnight.
What the hell is Alexa Ranking?
For the sake of those of you who aren’t sure what is Alexa Rank, Alexa is a very powerful tool used to rank web site traffic. You can find out how your web site traffic stacks up against all your competitors (in my case, Azwan.my)! Besides using alexa.com, you can also alexa ranking tool to find out how well your site ranks up against millions of other sites on the Web.
Remember: “The lower the Alexa ranking number the more heavily visited the site.” Some examples are:
cyza.us (rank 1,575,379 
), amazon.com (rank 14); weather.com (rank 64); cnn.com (rank 26); google.com (rank 5); Yahoo.com (rank 1). These rankings are generally consistent with the amount of traffic they have.
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Comments
Comment from azwan
Time February 24, 2009 at 3:35 pm
ni … dah kira macam public announcement ni
anyone else wants to join. next alexa review – 31st May 2009
no prize involve, just bragging rights 
Comment from budeen
Time February 25, 2009 at 3:24 am
Budeen.com has a traffic rank of: 2,556,641
cyza reply on February 25th, 2009 4:51 am:
Wow, cool. You can get to below 1,000,000 if you put the put some effort.
Comment from titan
Time February 25, 2009 at 1:54 pm
haha. alexa rank memang best. leh wat duit maa..
azwan reply on February 25th, 2009 7:02 pm:
kalau ada contest, titan tak boleh masuk .. sebab dia dah tinggi.
farahaznil reply on February 26th, 2009 1:50 am:
hahhaa..thats right man..titan just be the watching of us lah..hehe…
Comment from KNizam
Time February 25, 2009 at 8:59 pm
aku baru je dapat rank 400k ke bawah
hehe rasa cam best je. hehe
tapi azwan lagi power lah. hehe
azwan reply on February 25th, 2009 9:55 pm:
apa pulak lagi power, kau kan dah below 400K, aku masih di tahap 700K
KNizam reply on February 25th, 2009 10:01 pm:
eh blog lama ko bukan dah bawah 500k he. hehe
azwan reply on February 25th, 2009 10:11 pm:
ha..ha.. blog tu sudah naik ke 800K lah, bukan bawah 500 lagi
farahaznil reply on February 26th, 2009 1:51 am:
aiyark…everybody talking about alexa rank la..hi hi hi..how about my blog??ho ho ho..maybe not standing like u all..cewah..huhhhuu
Comment from samdaddycool
Time February 26, 2009 at 11:39 am
Aku punya pun sejuta lebih lagi .. berjuta-juta lemon!
cyza reply on February 26th, 2009 12:19 pm:
Same here bro…
farahaznil reply on February 26th, 2009 8:12 pm:
hohohoho…me also..ayark….byk fenin after see my ranking..hohohohoh…very bad…huhhuu
Comment from zaki blogjer
Time March 4, 2009 at 3:32 pm
I do care, because sometime advertisers quite choosy, they wanted to know Alexa rank
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cyza reply on February 24th, 2009 4:32 pm:
It would be better if someone want to sponsor something…isn’t it?
Budeen, what do you think? Want to grab the challenge?
Anybody else want to join?
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azwan reply on February 24th, 2009 4:38 pm:
sponsor?
ha .. ha .. out of internet funds. just bought 2 new domains and upgrade my hosting package.
on the other hand, normal funds are also drying. just upgraded tv from 25″ to 42″
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cyza reply on February 24th, 2009 5:38 pm:
I’m not referring to you on sponsorship. Maybe it’s just for fun …haha…
budeen reply on February 24th, 2009 5:56 pm:
if there’s another challenge, i’m in…
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cyza reply on February 24th, 2009 6:13 pm:
If you are in, please declare your alexa ranking please as of today. Thanks.