[BUSINESS] why does my Alexa rank go up and down so much every week

[Abby]

Some weeks my best ranked site is at 820K then it will go to 2 million and another week or two be at 1.4 million and all that time my traffic is even and my sales are even. What is this ?

[TheButcher]

I don;t see why anyone cares about Alexa to be honest

[BOB777]

That scale I can never figure out

[T.B.W]

They compare sites so your traffic may be the same but if another site comes up yours will go down. It's a stupid scale.

[ricco]

I've moved on to using SEMrush

[xxxman]

Alexa is shit

[BrasSmonkey]

because more people enter and have more traffic when they do

[britporn_mike]

It's a comparative scale so one site goes up another will come down.

[workman]

My sales are all that means dick. No counter or site ranking my sites.

[ispdn]

Alexa goes up and down for my sites but I never lose sleep over it unless I see a drop in sales.

[AlexO]

My dick goes up and down and I know why it does

[gotonudecom]

I have written several posts in this forum on this subject.

First off all Alexa is guessing at your traffic, for the most part.

Second it is a ranking system, similar to a physical straight line race. The site in the lead is number one. DUH!
The other sites are ranked by their current assumed traffic in relation to the number one position.
Thus if another sites starts receiving more traffic than the sites in front of them or another sites stop receiving as much traffic as the sites behind them their their rank will change accordingly.

One reason to use Alexa is to gauge where you are in relation to other sites in your category.
Then you can go see what they are doing to increase their traffic.

Use it as a gauge to see where you might be at a given time in relation to other sites.

Again the Alexa algorithm is mostly a big guess using math and estimates.

[bucksm]

gotonudecom understands how Alexa works.

[bbwlover]

I check some of my sites once in a while but not that often, why do I care, nothing much I can do about it.

[killah]

My dick goes up and down and I know why it does

lmafao that made my afternoon