What is Alexa Traffic Rank?
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If you’ve owned a website for a while, you’ve probably heard the phrase “Alexa Rank”.
Although you wouldn’t guess it from the name, the Alexa ranking system is one that ranks every website on the Internet in order of traffic.
Each day, every website is ranked – the website with the most traffic is ranked first, the website with the second most traffic is ranked second, etc.
Unlike the Google PageRank system, you actually want your Alexa score to be lower, rather than higher.
A website’s Alexa rank is based off of traffic. However, it’s not just pure hits that boost your score, otherwise it would be very easy to game the system by refreshing your browser a few hundred times each day. Continued
