We have seen many people complaining about their website not getting indexed by Alexa or in other words, when somebody want to see ranking of his website in Alexa, it shows “no data” with no ranking. It is actually very disappointing for some one to get into this kind of situation as ranking of your website is important to attract advertisers and at the same time to see the global and regional performance of your blog or website. So what is the solution of it?

The easiest solution of this problem is to get your site crawled by Alexa and for this you first need to open Alexa.com, once this is done key in your website address and get details. You will see a graph where it shows no data in Alexa, just below it you will find “Learn more about Alexa Traffic Stats” and once you click on it you will land on page, where it explains everything about Alexa traffic ranking. Now at the left sidebar you will see webmasters. All you need to do is just click on this link and you will have a complete explanation about how to get your site crawled by Alexa manually and what are the various changes need to be done in order to crawl specific pages.

At below you will see “Crawl my site” so here you just need to enter web address of your blog or website and click on Crawl my site.Now your site will be crawled by Alexa crawler. After this submission it normally takes Alexa crawler to crawl your website within 8 weeks.

You may also want to prevent some files of your website or blog to get crawled by Alexa crawler. So for that refer this extensive guide on How to Control Alexa crawler from crawling your site HERE.

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