Showing up on Alexa

[rgerick]

My name is Roger and I am rainchute.com and freightmovers.com

The traffic rankings on Alexa.com show for Rainchute.com, but not for my sub-domain of freightmovers.com In fact, Alexa says there is "No traffic data" available for freightmovers.com

Does anyone know if it is because freightmovers is a sub-domain? Will Alexa start gathering traffic data if I switch freightmovers to its own hosted space here on Bluehost?

Thanks,

Roger

[charlesgan]

new domain name or domain with low traffic... usually not getting the alexa traffic indication.

and for sample the subdomain will reflecting the traffic of the main domain.
eg.
http://directory.v7n.com/ = 959
http://www.v7n.com/ = 959

[felgall]

Does anyone know if it is because freightmovers is a sub-domain? Will Alexa start gathering traffic data if I switch freightmovers to its own hosted space here on Bluehost?


With that name it is NOT a sub-domain - it is a full domain treated the same whether it has its own separate hosting account or is sharing an account with another site.

All that Alexa not listing it means is that there have not been enough visitors to the site with the Alexa spyware bar installed for Alexa to assign a ranking to it yet. Only people with that toolbar installed in their browser so as to report all the sites they visit to Alexa get included in those stats.

[W3Daryl]

Personally I don't even bother with Alexa as very few people actually use the toolbar. I'd more concentrate on link building to that site to generate organic traffic that may help you get listed naturally. Cheers.

[felgall]

Even Amazon who own Alexa admit that given the small percentage of people who use their toolbar, the stats are completely meaningless outside of the top 100,000 web sites. For the top thousand sites the position is probably +/- 100, for the top 10,000 sites it would be +/- 2000, for the top 100,000 sites +/- 30,000 and for sites outside the top 100,000 +/- 500,000.

[redsox9]

Even Amazon who own Alexa admit that given the small percentage of people who use their toolbar, the stats are completely meaningless outside of the top 100,000 web sites. For the top thousand sites the position is probably +/- 100, for the top 10,000 sites it would be +/- 2000, for the top 100,000 sites +/- 30,000 and for sites outside the top 100,000 +/- 500,000.

That is an interesting tidbit of knowledge and I'm going to save this for the next time an advertiser tries to low-ball me by using my Alexa "statistics." It sounds like they are as useful as tits on a bull. ;)

[rgerick]

Apparently, it is all horsefeathers. When you type in any phrase at all related to either of my websites, they come up number one or two anyway....and that's all I care about. I'll not focus on the ants at the back door, when the elephants are trampling down the front any more! Roger

[rgerick]

Personally I don't even bother with Alexa as very few people actually use the toolbar. I'd more concentrate on link building to that site to generate organic traffic that may help you get listed naturally. Cheers.


Thanks Daryl!

Roger