Another question for you all, does the Alexa rank/rating mean anything to you? Since I've been keeping any eye on my company website (almost 2 months now) I've seen a rise in our rating from (I can't actually remember what it started at but think it was around 1.4 Million) to 734 Thousand.
It's a CGI (perl) generated site so lots of main.cgi?var1=xxx&var2=xxxx which I've replaced a lot of with /func/var2.html type links (using Melkiors htaccess article) which I gather is more search engine friendly, I've also submitted a sitemap although not a good one and tweaked the keyword and title tags.
I messed up a couple of times, both were the result of an unset variable I was using and easily fixed but I did get a chance to see what effect they had on our rating in Alexa, the 1st saw a drop of 10k and the 2nd 26k, Google Webmaster tools highlighted the issue as bad urls which is how I found out. I just wish these two tools updated more often.
It's not really a high traffic site though.
I guess the same reasoning applies to why I can't seem to get above page rank 5 seemingly no matter how many articles we put out.
Are Alexa rank and page rank related? I assume if you increase one you should increase the other, though not necessarily proportionatly?
I realise that on their own neither of these figures mean much, I'm mearly using them as a guide so that I can "see" what effect my changes are having.
I only started all this in an attempt to get the extra links under ours in Google (like sections of the site, I can't remember the technical term), still not figured that one out. Still it's been interesting and I fully intend to keep at it.
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It's a CGI (perl) generated site so lots of main.cgi?var1=xxx&var2=xxxx which I've replaced a lot of with /func/var2.html type links (using Melkiors htaccess article) which I gather is more search engine friendly, I've also submitted a sitemap although not a good one and tweaked the keyword and title tags.
I messed up a couple of times, both were the result of an unset variable I was using and easily fixed but I did get a chance to see what effect they had on our rating in Alexa, the 1st saw a drop of 10k and the 2nd 26k, Google Webmaster tools highlighted the issue as bad urls which is how I found out. I just wish these two tools updated more often.
It's not really a high traffic site though.
I guess the same reasoning applies to why I can't seem to get above page rank 5 seemingly no matter how many articles we put out.
Are Alexa rank and page rank related? I assume if you increase one you should increase the other, though not necessarily proportionatly?
I realise that on their own neither of these figures mean much, I'm mearly using them as a guide so that I can "see" what effect my changes are having.
I only started all this in an attempt to get the extra links under ours in Google (like sections of the site, I can't remember the technical term), still not figured that one out. Still it's been interesting and I fully intend to keep at it.
Humous
