Alexa Point Test

  Are You In The Top 1%?

I recently did the Alexa Point Test and found out that my dog food website is in the top 4% of all websites!  The tests says it ranks at 3,687,321 (assuming 100 million active domains).  So I'm not in the top 1% yet, but my site is only one year old and I haven't really worked on it that much.

Have you taken the Alexa Point Test yet?

Alexa ranks websites based on traffic. The top 5 websites in terms of traffic are Google, Facebook, Youtube, Yahoo, and Live. The competition for website traffic is fierce.  Netcraft says the number of websites has doubled in the last two years to 182 million.  And also Google announced recently that it has indexed over 1 trillion unique URLS or webpages.  But 6% or about 10.5 million of these sites are Google related, which is odd.  That is the bad news.

The good news is the majority of these sites are spam or inactive sites.  So if you regularly update your site and build links you can easily have your site in the top 5%.

But what does it take to get your site in the top 1%?

Content is King

No matter how many "secrets" gurus try to sell you, at the end of the day content wins.  Its all part of the much talked about CTPM Process.

Even John Reese said this in an email to his list titled “The Online Business That Just Won't Die!” on April 7th.
John Reese said ”If you want to build a rock-solid, long-term business online then build a CONTENT BUSINESS.  Target certain keywords and have good content created around them.  The 'key' here is GOOD content, not crap auto-generated or scraped with software.”

Often Newbies and even experienced webmaster often mistakenly focus on monetization of their websites first and worry about content second, which is contrary to the CTPM Process. Don't spend your time trying to set up a shopping cart or a merchant account at the beginning.

Spend the most of your time building a quality site with lots of great content. Lots of content equals lots of free traffic from search engines.  If you don't have lots of content, then you have to rely on PPC to drive traffic to your website.

The Right Kind of Traffic

While traffic is important, as Ken Envoy says you need targeted traffic that is motivated, interested, and willing to buy from you.

Which is why you need lots of great and useful content for the reader. So whether you are earning money from Adsense, Clickbank, or selling your own physical products, traffic is the lifeblood of making money on the Internet.

So let’s get started by taking the Alexa Point Test

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