Using the Alexa service on a blog or web site internet


Statistics, metrics and indicators that provides Alexa traffic of any website, use this data to improve our visibility, more visitors, success and popularity in our pages or blog. Importance and value of Alexa internet ranking.
Usar Alexa para mejorar el posicionamiento de un blog o sitio de internet
Alexa www.alexa.com , it is specialized in monitoring and securing Internet traffic statistics company.
Accessing your page, you can know various metrics anywhere, provided it is in its database.
You can also use various tools provided free to developers or anyone who has an Internet blog or website.
This service evaluates the importance of websites using a value called "Alexa Ranking."

What is Alexa Ranking?
Alexa uses a numeric indicator to measure traffic, the success and popularity of the sites, not of isolated sites, only sites.
It is a value to the extent that smaller, the more important.
It is known as Alexa ranking.
For example sites that are just beginning or take time but are not popular, Alexa value can be from 4 to 2 million, more traffic sites have a value below 100 000.

How does the information Alexa sites?
Alexa monitors and obtains information from the pages of your huge database draws in two ways, using a bot or spider've probably seen in the logs of your server name Alexa (IA Archiver), and the other way is by reports from users who use the Alexa toolbar.
Original Alexa toolbar is an extension for Internet Explorer browser, although currently there are versions available for Firefox and Google Chrome.
It supplies directly in the browser several options, the most useful is to know the value assigned to every website that is visited, similar to Google's PageRank, but unlike this is updated daily.
Install the Alexa toolbar
Alexa importance for navigation and Internet sites

Alexa users is useful to know the traffic that has every site you visit tool, which gives an idea of ​​the importance and popularity can have.
For developers and anyone with a blog or page on the Internet is an extremely useful tool.
Alexa is a web analytics, but its open to any user information unlike Google Analytics offers a professional service, but the result is only displayed to the owners.
Similar to Alexa and Compete Quantcast lends service, but only to sites visited by users in the United States.
Alexa Internet is more used to rate the traffic of any website. To be properly recognized and prestigious in the network, it is taken as a reference for any estimate.
A site with a good ranking on Alexa, can provide a solid reference to any analysis made.
Unfortunately Alexa service is not perfect, much depends on the use by users who access our site Alexa famous bar and our Spanish-speaking area is not as used as in English-speaking countries.
The consequence is that we are with some disadvantage with sites of this area, you can check to see the values ​​of sites with similar parameters, but one of them visitors have said rod installed, this is because the bar is Alexa critical to detect links and other metrics of our pages.
Information and statistics that Alexa offers
Alexa as a company, offers in addition to its essential function, a free, limited-service form, but for many it is very useful and we should suffice.
Col's may obtain information about some useful metrics to find acceptance with the pages of our site or blog on the Internet.
Since June 2013 some changes were made free service.
There are three improvements highlighted in the "Site Info page", where public information page is displayed on our site.
• A cleaner look and easier to interpret the various metrics.
• clearer answers to popular questions (popularity, traffic history graph, etc.)
Some metrics are not available now in the free version, including:
• The old panel "High Impact Search Queries" (Terms of searches of great impact), detailed information of keywords (keyword), most used to make the search (only 5 shown).
• The "Search Traffic" (State of queries made on the search engines), panel is now more simple.
• demographic details not available.
• Reviews (reviews of users, not available.)
The metrics displayed in the free version are:
Alexa main indicators
Now only shown in the panel of the main indicators a graph with the values ​​of the past three months, the Global Rank and corresponding in the country with more visitors.
In the example images capture the analysis of our website, at the time that the information in this article, which was written at a much earlier date is updated.
Alexa Traffic Rank. This index obtained according to our site traffic and page views, is a global value, to lower the better.
Rank in IS. Rank that our site has in a given country (not necessarily the lowest)

Alexa main indicators
Alexa Ranking


Origin of visitors and most used keywords

Panel provided little information compared to the existing above.
Now you need to pay for the Pro version to get more of the 5 keywords that are displayed.

Alexa Traffic Rank
Used keywords

Web sites linked to our site
Limited information panel which displays the total number of links to our site (only detected by the Alexa toolbar) and just 5 sites backlinks to our website.

Web sites linked to our site
linked to our site

 Traffic in the last three months
Graph report site traffic the last three months.
It has several tabs that know the scope, page views, time on site, etc.

 Traffic last three months
Traffic Map

Anyone who previously agreed to Alexa, you realize that the limitations are immense in information, although this is shown in a more accessible and easily understood by people without advanced knowledge.
For metrics of a website more comprehensive and detailed way, there are other free options such as Google Webmaster tool.
However the Alexa index remains the most important metrics provided by this useful service.
Certificate of a website metrics
Alexa is possible to obtain a certificate of metrics a site, pay for a Pro service that allows a more comprehensive traffic analysis.
In that case you need to insert a code on all pages of the site in a similar way as we do with Google Analytics.
How to Alexa statistics show my website?
Need to Register to Alexa, the basic option is free, only you need a valid email address.

You do need to show that you own your site or blog, you insert a simple code that will give you at the root of your server.
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