lthough Alexa's search use what you learn to raise your
results are driven by rankings in the search engines,
Google, this is a definite as well as find better keywords
must in your search engine for your website.
marketing plan.
Alexa also has its own crawler,
The reason is that Alexa will and eventhough you may show up in
provide statistics about your the search results powered by
website that no other search Google, you still want to have
engine or web directory will Alexa crawl your site.
provide.
Alexa, like Google, may discover
These statistics include: your site on its own. However,
it's been my experience that
* Your site ranking on the Alexa only updates my site when I
internet visit Alexa and make updates.
* What sites are linking to yours This includes the thumbnails.
* Detailed traffic statistics
* Site thumbnails The first step that you should
* Site Speed take before submitting to Alexa
is to type in the domain name of
These are just a few examples. your site to see if you are
listed.
You can also use Alexa to search
for your keywords. This will tell If you are listed, study the
you who your competition is for thumbnail for your site and see
the keywords you have selected. if needs to be updated. You
You can more carefully study your should also check your site
competition, find out who is description, as well as contact
linking to your competition, and information, and if it needs to
be updated, update it. information on creating a
robots.txt file.
Alexa will require that you
verify your website in one of two You can get more information, as
ways. The first is to enter your well as submit your site to be
email address, and Alexa will crawled, at this link:
send you a confirmation email. http://pages.alexa.com/help/webma
The other way is that you can sters/index.html.
verified is to create an info.txt
file and upload it to the root If you want to find out who your
directory of your website. You competition is, and get a
can then click the verification competitive edge, then Alexa is
link and Alexa will verify your an indispensible tool to help
site. you. Use the detailed information
you'll find on this site, and you
If your site isn't listed for can easily raise your rankings in
some reason, you will need to the search engines and get more
submit. Alexa gives detailed traffic.
instructions, as well as
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