Nathan said:
Alycium said:
Excellent accomplishment! I did a quick view of your Alexa rank and from what I saw, you have a little bit of work to do but you're in a good position to skyrocket.
Alexa Statistics of your website...
Global Alexa Rank: 982,926
This is a pretty bad global rank for a site that has been around for 10 years. Which I believe the below has a lot to do with this rank.
Total Sites Linking In: 48
48 sites linking in is not what I expected to see from a 10 year old forum. This should be a much larger number. I would focus on working on building quality backlinks. I would also sort through low quality spammy backlinks and disavow them so that they don't have an impact on your ranking. It wouldn't hurt to get rid of old broken backlinks (if possible or any?).
Bound Rate: 82.50%
Your bounce rate is EXTREMELY high. This shows that visitors are quick to move on from your website once visiting one page. To change this, you will need to build helpful tips, tutorials and more quality post with good titles. Think of your forum as a blog. Most blogs you see will have a keyword rich title that is catchy to draw the reader in. They will also provide quality content that offers good advice and tips, which, keeps your visitor on your page for a longer period of time. By creating good content that will keep your readers interest, this will ultimately lower your bounce rate.
You're receiving a good amount of organic traffic from search engines, which is wonderful! Also, you have some great keywords that you're dominating. Your domain name alone, is keyword dominant for your niche. Just a little bit of effort to build quality backlinks and some good content, you'll be on the road for great success 😀
Alexa rank is definitely not a way to determine a website's popularity.. It's a guide but a very uninformative one at the very least.. It's determined only via users who have the Alexa toolbar installed which is very unreliable. Being the owner of a "webmaster" forum you'd think this is pretty standard knowledge..
"Myth #1: Alexa only measures traffic from people who have installed the Alexa toolbar.
Not true! Alexa’s measurement panel is based on a very large and diverse set of browser extensions and plug-ins. The Alexa Toolbar is just one of many browser extensions that include Alexa data. And, for sites that have installed the Alexa Certify code, Alexa directly measures traffic from all visitors to the website whether or not they have a browser extension installed."
I never said it was the most accurate information for his website. But, it's a website that is widely used to judge one's website popularity. Why else would Alexa be so popular? What's the point of even having Alexa and the information it provides if it is of no value? Why do potential advertisers look at it? Why do people want to take Alexa rank into consideration when buying or selling an established website?
It is a guide and an estimator, which I'm aware of. I was just giving a quick look at some of the fields he could possibly improve.
No need to be rude, I don't appreciate that at all. Yes, I am an owner of a webmaster forum, never claimed to be Matt Cutts. Webmaster isn't just one skill set or one field. I've been a graphic designer for most of my life and dealt with coding for quite some time. Again, I never claimed to be an SEO expert, just trying to help someone along the way based on limited information at a quick glance.
