Since I do touch on categories such as blogging tips, traffic and also page rank, at least I can show you that whatever tips that I gave you – works.

If it works for me, on a non niche blog, it will work on you too.

Page Rank

Didn’t expect this to be so soon after the algorithm changed. Got PR2 in less than 2 months. Since I got it fast, I could loose it the same way too.

Alexa Rank

For Alexa, you can refer to my Alexa review post.

Traffic Stastistic

Traffic has started to increase. Looks like when I decided to concentrate on onpage optimization first, has started to pay off. Can’t wait to see more traffic when the offpage optimization process starts. I have started with a social bookmarking site, more about this later ok

Other rankings? How about Technorati?

Although I have a Technorati account, I haven’t been paying much attention to it. Technorati calculates Technorati Authority and also Technorati Rank. Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the more Technorati Authority the blog has. Technorati Rank shows you how far are you from being number one. More on how to use Technorati for your blog later. Currently my authority is very low :

View blog authority

PR, Alexa and Traffic might not be so important for some people. Some IMs also do not care for PR nor Alexa. Their main concern is targeted traffic and most have a list of emails to market their products. Only minisites are required and a list of emails to direct the traffic to. I am beginning to explore that area too myself , but for those who are making money online through advertising, links selling, adsense etc .. etc .. these 3 (and a few others) are important.

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Don’t worry, my personal blog will not move anymore. This site is permanent unless I forget to pay my renewal fees

We didn’t make the challenge public nor set a specific time frame. Anyway, mine is currenlty at 737,479 while his is 1,575,379.

Traffic source has also started to come from outside Malaysia, about 60%. Compare this with my kids, looks like their blog is getting a bigger share

A higher Alexa Ranking does not mean that the traffic of that site is high. Alexa rank is measured by visits from users with the Alexa Toolbars installed.

Alexa’s traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users and data collected from other, diverse sources over a rolling 3 month period. A site’s ranking is based on a combined measure of reach and pageviews. Reach is determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day. Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site. However, multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are counted as a single pageview. The site with the highest combination of users and pageviews is ranked #1. More info at Alexa FAQ

Although there are tips being given to increase Alexa page ranking, you can refer to Dosh Dosh, I didn’t use any of them. The experiment I am doing at azwan.my is solely based on SEO for organic traffic.

The first thing to do is to build the traffic. I am giving myself 3 months from now for this site to be as the same level as the old site in terms of traffic. At the same time, I’ll try to increase the blog Alexa Ranking and also Google Page Rank.

azwan dot my started with a traffic rank of 29M. After 4 days of blogging, it is now 15,693,449. Traffic, as above, is 100% from Malaysia while the previous blog is only 30% from Malaysia. The target is to get an Alexa Ranking of below 1M in a month and at the level of 500K ++ by the second month, and also to diversify the traffic source.

As for Google Page Rank, that will be the last thing on my mind. For the time being traffic is more important than PR.

More Traffic = More Money, High PR is a bonus
High PR, but No Traffic = No Money

Since Konsiblog is challenging Knizam in terms of traffic rank, I might be able to use some of their tips to increase the Alexa Traffci Ranking of my blog.