Alexa Top 50,000 and Technorati Top 3,000
July 17th, 2007 by CourtDuring this last week CourtneyTuttle.com pushed through two fairly significant milestones. It cracked the Technorati Top 3,000 and also broke into Alexa’s top 50,000 sites. 
The official ranking as of right now in Technorati is 2,985. If you look closely at the image to the left, you’ll see that the Technorati authority of CourtneyTuttle.com is 843. This means that in order to break the Technorati top 3,000, it takes links from about 840 different blogs.
Technorati calculates the rankings by the number of unique blogs that link to you. The total number of links this site has from blogs is 2,224, but that doesn’t really matter to Technorati. I could have 500,000 links and it wouldn’t improve my ranking at all if all of them were from the same 843 blogs.
I’m really happy with my Technorati ranking, but the truth is that getting into the top 50,000 of Alexa is actually a lot more difficult than breaking the Technorati top 3,000.
Alexa calculates their rankings by using a three month average of a website’s traffic. This makes it a lot more difficult for websites and blogs that are new because low traffic numbers from April will affect your Alexa rank today.
If you look closely at the chart (sorry if it’s pretty small) you’ll see that my traffic has increased dramatically in May, June, and July. Since the ranking is still averaging the last two weeks of April my score is being held back quite a bit. I’m betting that I’ll be able to crack the top 40,000 sometime early in August.
The Alexa ranking is a very important number that is used to calculate what advertising is worth on your site. ReviewMe, PayPerPost, Text-Link-Ads, and a whole bunch of other ad players use it to gauge what you’re worth.
Tomorrow’s post is going to be on achieving a higher Alexa ranking, so make sure to come back or subscribe to my feed. If you would rather subscribe by email, there is a form in the upper right hand of the page where you can sign up that way.
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July 17th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
That is Awesome Court! Do I dare ask how many monthly page impressions you are getting now to achieve such a good alexa ranking?
July 18th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
It looks like this month I’m going to hit about 30,000. Not bad for a new site but I’ll be a lot happier when it’s more like 300,000.
July 17th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
That’s good going Court, you clearly know what you’re doing! I recently wrote a post on whether there is any correlation between Alexa ranking and income. It was a fairly simple analaysis based on earnings as provided on Paula Mooney’s list and Alexa ranking as researched by me. Conclusion you can make reasonable money with an Alexa ranking above 100,000 but to make decent money yo need to get above 25,000 and for the really good money you need to be above 10,000 - all very approxiamte of course - but an intereting guide for beginners like myself - here it is if anyone is interested http://www.netmonetization.com/2007/07/blogger-revenue-and-alexa-rankings-are.html
The Old Vic
July 18th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
That’s really cool research Vic! It looks like I’ll have to wait until 10,000 to start making the big bucks.
July 17th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Congrats, Court! That is cool!
July 18th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Thanks much Melissa!
July 17th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
And here I was being happy that I got under 150k, and 1 mil each… All for naught anyways, I’m changing to wordpress and pro hosting in the next week or so. Get to start allllll over again
I’m thinking to ‘get back in the game’ that I might have to back off of my viral linking ideology.
Thats fine with me though, blogspot gave me the opportunity to prove to myself I can do it. And I know I can do it up better with more tools at my disposal.
Congrats on your success though! Very cool, I can’t wait until I’m making one of these posts
July 18th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Those are great numbers Jeremy! The most important thing is the direction your site is moving. I’ve seen your stats improve over the last few months which means they’ll just keep improving.
Switching to WordPress will definitely give you a lot more tools to improve with so it sounds like you’re making a very wise decision.
July 17th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
That is great news Court! Any new ideas to increase the rankings?
July 18th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
My latest post has a few important things!
July 17th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Awesome stats! Congrats
Someday I hope to have those kind of stats!
-Gregg
July 18th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
You will Gregg! The sad truth is that most people quit before they get to where they want to be. If you keep working at it there’s no doubt that you get there.
You already have a very useful site which is a lot more important than all the tricks and gimmicks.
July 17th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
I wish i can have those numbers as well… being on top is everyones dream…. Good Job Court.
July 18th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Thanks Melo! You’ll get there.
July 17th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Congratulations, that is good news. Also, thanks for explaining the bit about how Technorati only gives 1 authority point per site, I was wondering why my authority wasn’t going up even though I was still getting links (it was just from the same sites).
July 18th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
You’re welcome! It’s always important to know exactly how these rankings are calculated.
July 17th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Congrats Court! What caused the sudden spike in traffic for you? Looks like it was in mid May.
July 18th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Thanks Casey! My traffic has actually grown steadily. The appeared-spike in traffic happened when I installed the Alexa widget. That simply allowed Alexa to calculate my ranking more accurately.
July 18th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Yeah, just read that in your new post. Thanks for the tip! Adding the widget to my blog now!
July 18th, 2007 at 12:04 am
Congrats Court! Man you are prove the work pays of.
July 18th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Thanks Vic! Hard work definitely does pay off. I like that with the web, hard work keeps paying off again and again.
July 18th, 2007 at 5:33 am
Congratulations! Now, please share your secret to success! =D
July 18th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Thanks SJ! Most of my traffic comes from search engines - you should give a good read through my SEO articles:
http://courtneytuttle.com/search-engine-optimization-tips/
July 18th, 2007 at 5:41 am
Congrats… u are doing good
July 18th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Thanks!
July 19th, 2007 at 5:40 am
Congrats Court.
I have just broken the 10k club in Technorati, and have spiked into Alexa’s top 100k 3 times, but have not been able to sustain it - yet :).
David
July 19th, 2007 at 7:13 am
That’s a great breakdown of Alexa.
I agree it comes down to how much do you want some. I’ve met a few online bloggers that want to work for themselves, but they aren’t willing to do what it takes to get there which means they will be doing exactly what they are doing now.
I started taking my personal website Vegan Momma seriously in May and my numbers have doubled every month.
I started at an almost 2m with my Alexa, and it’s now down to 79,400. I’ve made almost 2k in two months.
I was just doing it for “pocket change” and to experiment with blog monetization.
I think my heavy hitter will be my niche website I just added adsense to the site after spending the first few weeks adding lots of content.
I’ve been doing very well currently over $1 per click. The traffic is low since it’s new, but it’s increasing.
July 26th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
[…] Technorati calculates the rankings by the number of strange blogs that link to you. The total number of urls that site has from blogs is 2,224, but that doesn’t really matter to Technorati. I could have 500,000 hyperlinks and it wouldn’t improve my ranking at all whether all of them were from the same 843 blogs.Original post by Court […]