Alexa Latest search engine news blog articles from Alexa. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/publisher/Alexa.html Alexa News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=13246 Alexa keeps rolling out exciting new features. We recently made new features available on our Top Sites Lists, and those are being well-received by web professionals. While I work for Alexa Internet and am interested in that sort of data, I tend to like shiny things. So, for those of you who, like me, are interested in the new new thing, I would like to point out our newest homepage offering, Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:32:27 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12446 If you use Alexa's traffic data to make business decisions, you're going to love this. Now, for the first time, we are making data available in our downloadable Top Sites Lists that does not appear anywhere on Alexa.com. In response to your requests, our Top Sites Lists include Unique Monthly User estimates and Monthly Pageview estimates. How do you compare with your competitors? Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:27:21 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12430 When a news story broke a few days ago about Senator John McCain's technical adviser having said, "John McCain is aware of the Internet," I was reminded of McCain's own earlier admission that, "I'm an illiterate who has to rely on my wife for all the assistance I can get. Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:58:41 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11876 I'm very excited to tell you about Alexa's new and improved Related Links. For the last few months we have been toiling away developing devious new algorithms to tease better related links out of our Web crawl. While I can't divulge the secret sauce, I can say that the work paid off in a big way. If you have an Alexa Toolbar or Sparky (everybody does, right? Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:42:42 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6575 Though we had a brief glitch that prevented us from displaying Traffic Rank numbers for some sites, the error has been corrected. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming. Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Thu, 22 May 2008 18:28:39 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3873 Looking at the graph of the top three Movers, I'm reminded of how my job in Web metrics has made me (slightly) cooler. There was honestly a time when I had no idea what March Madness was-none at all. I think I occasionally heard it and associated it with springlike things: allergies and short pants. One glance at this graph (or the previous years' versions of it), Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:55:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3630 Sometimes, when I look at Alexa's Movers and Shakers, I discover some hip new site everyone's clicking on. And sometimes, I look at the graph and realize, oh, yeah, the Oscars just happened. Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:33:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3612 [Note: Alexa's traffic data are still delayed by about a week, so this post is a bit stale.] Today's Movers graph pretty much tells a short story about how if you're a scandal-plagued starlet recovering from substance abuse, and you pose as an American icon from the past, the site that posts your photos will get a lot of traffic. You're free to view the photos, Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:52:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3618 As some of you have noticed, our traffic data is a few days behind. We are working hard to catch up, and you will see new data appearing over the next several days. Thank you for your patience! Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:43:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3622 [Note: due to some technical difficulties, the Movers data have not been updated since Friday the 15th. Rather than hold them frozen at those posted Tuesday the 12th of February, I'm updating them to the last available, reliable Movers data.] You look at the graph and you see Mozilla. Your brain says, "Yeah, I just updated Firefox. Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:08:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3619 When I look at the current graph of the Movers and Shakers, I have three thoughts. 1) Oh right, I did just recently have a Firefox update. 2) Man, that Warcraft III Defense of the Ancients game is really popular. [note: I'm not a gamer and initially confused World of Warcraft with Warcraft III. A kind commenter named Ryan pointed out my mistake and I have corrected this item. Thank you, Ryan. Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:27:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3625 When you look at the graph of our Movers and Shakers, the most striking increase among the top three is from the Mover in the number-two position, NoScript. This Firefox add-on is already popular; it has a three-month Traffic Rank of 3,799. While the recent release of a new version of NoScript has certainly given the site's traffic a boost, Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:30:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3616 As some of you have noticed, we temporarily stopped updating Alexa traffic information on January 31. We discovered some anomalies in the traffic rankings, including some inexplicable drops in traffic for a number of sites in China. We decided to halt the traffic updates until we resolved the issue. We expect to correct the problems later this evening. Thank you for your patience! Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:52:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3611 One of the things I love about Alexa's Movers and Shakers is that you can sometimes find the cool thing everyone's clicking on-even if you're too busy to comb the websites like Slashdot and Digg that track these sorts of things. Such is the case with the adorable screen cleaner flash file on linein.org. Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:50:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3627 "Buy a List!" You have probably seen this link posted on Alexa's pages. This offering came about because we learned over the years that visitors to our website were interested in learning which sites were in a particular range of Traffic Rank according to our data. This Top Sites List has been a simple list of Alexa's top-ranked websites from 1 to 10,000-or even 100,000 sites. Over time, Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:07:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3631 About a month ago, Microsoft Live passed MSN in daily rank; you should expect to see this reflected in Alexa's three-month rank any day now. The next sites in line for succession - MySpace and Facebook - currently lack the reach to upset the Top5. In the middle of this Microsoft dance are Google and YouTube. The following graph illustrates some interesting trends. As you can see, Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:32:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3632 As a follow-up to my post about "The New Black," here are more graphs for your consideration. I actually intended to write this up last week but I guess late is the new early. Jumping right in, as a computer scientist, I'm interested in programing language trends. The graph below was seeded from the list of programming languages on Wikipedia. Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:01:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3610 Summer is over and I am putting together my to-do list for Alexa, trying to figure out what we are going to be working on for the next year. But before I break out my pencil, I thought I'd ask you first. If you have about a minute and a half, take this brief survey and tell me what's on the top of your Alexa wish list: Survey Thanks. Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:33:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3613 Many of you probably noticed inrainbows.com on our movers and shakers graph last week. This site is where Radiohead released their new album for free download in mp3 format on Oct 10th. If you want the official hard copy CD you can name your own price. This release and distribution method is a first by a well-known heavyweight artist and you can bet the record industry will be watching closely. Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:03:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3617 Inspired by a graph from DIAGRAM and an old meme, I decided to take a look and see if the internet could help me figure out what is the new what. Variations on this is the new that are fairly common on the web; using Alexa's Web Search Service to search for the phrase "* is the new *" turned up several million instances of documents that are on hand in our archive. Unlike other search services, Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:17:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3621 Some of you noticed that this week, Google and MSN traded places in Alexa's Top 10 list. Actually, it's better to say that google.com and msn.com traded places, in order to avoid getting confused. This is mostly due to a significant drop in traffic for msn.com; in fact, because Alexa's Top Sites list is based on three months of data, Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:27:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3628 Last week, the Google Blog posted a story about search trends and video game systems, namely a comparison between searches for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Wii. Looking at the Google Trends graph next to an Alexa Traffic Graph (reach) for xbox.com, playstation.com, and wii.com, you can see mostly the same trends. In 2005-Q4, the Xbox is clearly the winner in both searches and traffic, Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:36:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3620 Now that Fred Thompson has (finally) officially announced that he is running for the presidency, we can check his Web site's Alexa stats to see how popular he is with the online crowd. It turns out that he is popular. Here is the graph of the republican candidates: That red line with the big spike... that is Fred08.com. Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:56:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3615 Tennis was very popular when I was growing up. We had all the big stars like Connors, McEnroe and Borg. And the ladies were popular too, with Evert and Navratilova. Golf on the other hand was much less popular. Tennis waxed and Golf waned. Over the last 10 years or so, courses have changed. Golf is very popular now and tennis.... not so much. Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:19:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3633 For years sales, bizdev and marketing folks have used Alexa to identify sites in their target market and contact them. Alexa has been great at the first half of that equation - identifying sites - and poor at the second half. The contact info available on Alexa has been meager at best. Now, we have partnered with Jigsaw to complete the equation. 500, Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:27:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3614 I see this line in blogs just about every day: "How to boost your Alexa Rank." They are inevitably filled with misguided musings posted by fools who can't be bothered to learn the facts before blathering about some get-rich-quick scheme. Here's a perfect example. In this blog post, he says you can boost your rank EASILY by following his simple steps. That post was from August 9th, Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:30:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3624 As I mentioned in my last blog post, the traction that candidates get online, don't always follow when it comes to make a choice at the ballot box. But, in the case of the Democrats, there is a clear alignment. The 3 leading candidates all have ranks well within the Alexa Top 100,000 sites, while the rest, all fall well outside that mark. Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:20:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3634 Howard Dean's presidential campaign of 2004 seemed to prove that popularity on the Internet doesn't translate into votes in the primaries. Dean, by far the most popular candidate on the net, simply couldn't get the votes. Why the discrepancy? Is the Internet a skewed demographic that doesn't represent the voting public at large? Do people play it safe when they get to the ballot box? Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:50:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3623 We've had one or two folks ask us what is going on here at Alexa... the data looks to be out-of-date and customer service isn't responding. Did something go wrong? The answer is not very exciting. Our data center suffered a power outage a few days ago and it set us back by a day. Our traffic stats are a day behind now and should be current within the next few hours. Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:22:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3629 Today is the 10th anniversary of the Alexa Toolbar, originally released on July 17, 1997. Do you remember what the Net looked like back then? Netscape was the most popular browser. AOL had released it's first Instant Messenger program in Beta. Jodie Foster's new movie Contact was number one at the box office. Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:47:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3626 Perhaps you noticed... Alexa has a new look today. New Headers - At the very top of the page you'll notice that Alexa's search box is placed inside a new box with easy navigation. This should make it easier to navigate around the site from rankings, to search to directory, etc. By the way, have you tried Alexa's search lately? Search Engines News SEO News Alexa Alexa Mon, 14 May 2007 05:58:00 GMT