That’s a problem we’ve had with our site. We hit tremendous traffic spikes (usually by getting the scoop on new tablet info and getting picked up by the tech blog trifecta) and then hit lulls in traffic. That plays havok with Alexa. We’ll have some days where we’re under 50k. Then our one week average will begin creeping up to 200k or so.

I only state that to show I know your pain. Keep up the good work. It’s nice to see someone posting their Alexa progress. It will be a good tool for other blogs that are starting out.
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Yes, targeted traffic is what matters, I’ve been doing my best to comment on as many blogs in the IM and related niches as possible.

I hope to get around to them all eventually, and then keep commenting on the ones that are bringing me the most traffic.

Thanks for visiting and taking the time to comment, I know how valuable our time is, so I appreciate anyone who uses their time to comment on my blog.

Paul.

Congrats on building your traffic so quickly, and thanks for commenting at my blog. As you know only targeted traffic is worth having, and by raising your profile commenting on related blogs you’re able to keep your additional traffic highly targeted – kudos!

In my own case, I have 7 or 8 different blogs all within the IM niche, so my traffic is spread across those and each ranks more poorly because they don’t all get updated as often as they would if every post was on the same blog.

But that’s offset by the tighter focus of each blog, since one is IM, one is affiliate marketing, a PLR blog, a traffic blog, etc. That focus gives a slightly better SEO ranking for targeted keywords for each, so it’s 6 of one, half-dozen of the other as they say.

The main thing is that you’re taking positive, concerted action to build targeted traffic, which almost always results in an increase in earnings as well. So congratulations too for taking massive action towards a set goal – something everyone talks about but so few actually do.

To your continued and increased success…

Doug.
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Thanks for clarifying that Alexa algorithm (at least what we could understand of it).

I have yet to see too much traffic from the WarriorForum yet, but I’m hoping for more soon! In the meantime I’ll be posting over there like crazy.

As for my ranking, I’m down to 508,633 (that’s down over 100k in 3 days). I see yours went down to right around there, as well.

So keep it up, Paul. We’re both doing something right!!

Joe
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Finally installed the smilie plugin, lets test em…

See. Great minds think alike!

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Thank you, and 995,000 isn’t bad you know, considering that rank is out of a possible 190 million websites or something like that.

I’ve heard anything under 1 million and you’re doing OK, if you keep commenting on peoples blogs it will drop faster. This is because when you visit someones blog, they will usually come and visit your site. This is especially true of your fellow students, like me.

I’m off to visit your blog now!

Paul.

Mind not going much but at least it’s getting better from times to times for now it still around 995 hundred K rank.

You are absolutely right, there isn’t a day goes by now when I don’t check on my Alexa rank.

2.8 million to 846,692 is a great acheivement, especially in just 2 weeks!! Well done…

I think it’s really good that we are all improving our Alexa ranks together. Our blogs are doing better than some other active blogs that have been around for years, and we’re getting more comments than them!

Be sure to come back tomorrow, I’ll be sharing some tips I’ve found, that could help us improve our Alexa ranks even faster!

Paul.