Alexa Traffic Rank for steemit.com Then and Now

Alexa is a world-famous analysis tool that can be used to do traffic analysis, keyword research, SEO analysis, and competitive analysis. It indicates so many details that are very important for making decisions towards competitive advancement.

Today I did online research about Alexa rank for steemit.com between 2016 and 2021 and let me share what I found.

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Alexa

Alexa is a amazon product and you can access the free site analysis features using this URL

There are 5 sections of statistics you can find for any of public web site

• An overview
• Keyword research
• Social engagement analysis
• Competitive analysis
• Website traffic statistics

In this article, I am going to talk about Alexa Traffic Rank. Alexa rank is a better indicator that shows how much your website is famous. It is based on a sample of global web traffic and which indicates how much people visit the website.

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Steemit in Alexa

You can simply visit the above URL and type steemit.com in the search box. It will display graphs and data under 5 catogories.

First, let's have a look at what we have.

Last updated on 2016 July 15 Rank :48 568

Last updated on 2016 July 18 Rank : 35 637

Then in 2017 June 7 Rank : 9 222

Again 2018 February 20 Rank : 1 000

Rank 1000 means a great deal..

But 2019 September 12 Rank : 6 720

Today, at the time of writing, Rank 25 382

The images evidence that the steemit was there among the top 1000 websites with higher traffic before 3 years and currently has lost some of its traffic and now it is 25 382. As the writers of steemit we all have a responsibility to contribute to increasing the traffic of the website. Login to steemit 100 times a day doesn't count to increase the traffic of steemit, but you can contribute to promoting steemit as well as you are promoting steem.

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What Writers Can Do to Increase the Traffic?

Increasing external traffic is very important. As well as internal users we can promo-steem to attract more exteral users with following non-techy ways.

1. Search Engine Optimized content
If you can see the following diagram, it shows 51% of steemit traffic comes through google. It can be searching the key word 'steemit' or clicking on a blog link in steemit.

Your content must be available for search engines to find and crawl easily. I will describe SEO with another article.

2. Social Media Exposure
Social media is the easiest way to gather an external crowd. You can simply put steemit blog links with photos you share on other social media.

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Alexa Rank is one of the rankings that we found commonly in web stats analysis. There is no rule that the Alexa rank shows all about a web site

Steemit in Alexa

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