Saturday, December 26, 2009

Discount Jamaica vacation packages

It is holiday season and everyone is looking forward to spend some quality time with their families. You have worked hard for 11 months and you should get a well deserved break from your routine job. Your family expects you to spend some quality time with them. It is always better to plan for a vacation trip outside your home country. Thus you get to see different cultures, lifestyles, people and environment. You take a break from your daily routine and relax with your family.















Every country is unique in terms of the natural habitat and lifestyle of people. Hence as an individual you must try to visit and learn from as many countries as possible. There are special discount vacation packages offered by the travel companies during festivals and holiday season. As a traveler you must plan your vacation accordingly so that you get the best price for the trip.

All inclusive family vacations are offered by majority of travel agencies and you get the best deal in terms of service as well as prices. The best features offered by such packages includes - beatiful pool, kids and adults club house, gymnasium and fine dining restaurants.

Jamaica is one of the best places that you can visit in the Caribbean. Known for its surroundings and beautiful beaches, it is one country that you must visit during your Caribbean trip. Many tourist enjoy and remember Jamaica vacations for the rest of their lifetime. you can enjoy river rafting, fishing and many more.

Remember to consult your tour operator for best price,offers and hotel accommodation on vacations before deciding to visit a country. This will save you from the hassles of looking for last minute hotel accommodations in case of change in schedule and emergencies.


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Friday, December 25, 2009

How To Improve Your Alexa Ranking?

How to improve your Alexa ranking? This is the most common question asked by the bloggers. There are thousand of posts written on this topic already, so you may wonder why am I doing the same?

This post not only tells you how to improve your Alexa ranking but also tells you how to make conclusions from the statistics provided by Alexa. Let us get straight to facts. Alexa is a web information company managed by Amazon.com which is one of the competitors of Google. Currently Alexa toolbar is used by 12 million users worldwide. Alexa provides a list of top 100000 websites and this list is updated daily. This list is based on the statistics provided by users who have Alexa toolbar installed on their computer.


Advertisers look at Alexa rank of a website before deciding to purchase text link ads from it. Some people believe that Alexa rankings can be manipulated very easily which is not true. Alexa regularly updates its algorithm in order to provide the most comprehensive and reliable statistics for advertisers and website owners. Having a website ranked better in Alexa rankings is considered as matter of pride by website owners.


Let us understand what can be concluded from the stats provided by Alexa.


1. Traffic Stats.

It provides detailed information about traffic a website receives including nature and geographic locations of website visitors.


A. Traffic Rank - It is the first tab present under Traffic Stats.

It provides the following information:

  • The sites ranking for the yesterday and change in ranking as compared to previous day.
  • 7 day average ranking of the website and change in ranking as compared to previous week.
  • 1 month average ranking of the website and change in ranking as compared to previous month.
  • 3 month average ranking of a website and change as compared to previous 3 months average.























The ranking of this site on 23 rd December 2009 is 26,128. Out of the total visitors the ones who had Alexa toolbar installed on their PC was 348.


B. Reach - Second tab under Traffic Stats


It provides the following
information:
  • The sites reach(% of total users having Alexa toolbar installed on their PC who visited) yesterday and %change as compared to previous day.
  • 7 day average reach and % change as compared to previous week.
  • 1 month average reach and % change as compared to previous week
  • 3 month average reach and % change as compared to previous week,
























On 23rd Decem
ber 2009, my sites reach is 0.0078. This reach accounts for 348 visitors.
Thus total number of visitors that used Alexa toolbar on the same day is
(348/0.0078) * 100 = 4,461,539. users.


Let us see what this means for sites having different Alexa rankings.
1. Google.com which is ranked # 1 according to Alexa has a reach of 42.9 % which equals 1,914,001 visitors who use Alexa toolbar.

2. Twitter.com which is
ranked # 14 according to Alexa has a reach of 4.57% which amounts to 203892 visitors.

3. Rediff.com which is ranked # 95 according to Alexa has a reach of 0.8% which equals 35692 visitors.


4. Time.com which is ranked # 530 according to Alexa has a reach of 0.157 which equals 7005 visitors.

5. Diary.ru which is ranked # 1075 according to Alexa has a reach of 0.095 which equals 4239 visitors.


6. Problogger.com which is ranked # 2558 according to Alexa has a reach of 0.062 which equals 2766 visitors.


7. Johnchow.com which is ranked # 10041 according to Alexa has a reach of 0.017 which equals 759 visitors.


8. Tacobell.com is ranked # 13005 according to Alexa has a reach of 0.015 which equals 669 visitors.


9. Kawasaki.com which is ranked # 31676 according to Alexa has a reach of 0.0041 which equals 183 visitors.


10. Traineo.com which is ranked # 100,463 according to Alexa has a reach of 0.0017 which equals 76 visitors.


What can you conclude from the above list?

Alexa rankings are reliable for sites having ranking of 100,000 and less. Beyond 100,000 and more there is not enough data to rank the sites.


How much traffic does a site receives?


  • A site with Alexa ranking of 100,000 receives 200-250 visitors daily.
  • A site with Alexa ranking of 10,000 receives 2500-3500 visitors daily.
  • A site with Alexa ranking of 1,000 receives 30000-35000 visitors daily.
  • A site with Alexa ranking of 100 receives 350000-400000 visitors daily.
  • A site with Alexa ranking of 10 receives 4500000-5000000 visitors daily.
  • A site with Alexa ranking of 1 receives 90000000-100000000 visitors daily.

More about Alexa rankings to be continued in my next post.

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