Wednesday, February 27, 2008

The Ultimate Internet Tool

There are a number of tools available on the Internet to support online businesses. A valuable tool, you should have the Alexa toolbar . Even better, this tool is free.

Alexa Toolbar

Founded in April 1996, Alexa.com has been developed to an interactive Web navigation system. The most impressive part of the platform, now owned by Amazon.com , is the free Alexa toolbar.....

First released in 1997, the Alexa toolbar is known as the "BS" detector for Internet sites. With over 10 million users, the toolbar tracks how people use the Internet and make this information available to ranking statistics for each site on the Internet. For example, Yahoo ranked as the number one of the most frequently visited site on the Internet.

How do you use this tool? First, you download the Alexa toolbar as follows:

1st Go to Alexa.com

2nd Click on "Download Alexa toolbar at the top of the page.

3rd Click "Install" on the next page.

Reload the page you are viewing and the toolbar appears at the top of your browser. The tool offers valuable information on the Website Here you see, including your own. It tells you the traffic ranking of the site compared to all the pages on the Internet. The tool offers you specific traffic information for the site and submit sites that are similar to the screen. Instead of baseless assumptions about how "good" one side, or whether it is successful, you can use the Alexa statistics, a better idea. If a company approaches you claiming they have a lot of traffic, you can simply pull up their website and verify the Alexa statistics. In this way you can check receives a significant amount of traffic, and is feeding you a line of "BS"

Let's look at Google.com with the Alexa toolbar. Get Google on your browser and click on the number # 3 in the toolbar. The Alexa toolbar information for Google shows:

1st The site is the 3rd most popular site on the Internet. [Yahoo is the number 1]

2nd The website takes .8 seconds to load, which is very fast.

Next, click the "traffic details, see" link on the page to immerse yourself in the site statistics:

The site shows consistent traffic through the year, maintaining a number 3 position. From each 214.00 million surfers visit the website, which is an excellent "REACH" rating. Each visitor views around 5.4 pages on the site, which means that users to work there way into the internal pages of the website. This is always good news for a website.

As you can see, with the Alexa Toolbar system provides concrete information in References to websites. The next time you are contacted by someone claiming they have millions of hits or are considering advertising on a website, you can use the Alexa toolbar to an objective picture of the location.

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