How to Update your Alexa Thumbnail

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27th

How to Update your Alexa Thumbnail

Author: luq | Files under the internet, tips

I was looking for how to update your Alexa screenshot thumbnail because some services (like Adtoll) and I actually found it quite easily by myself in the end. Another thing I noticed is there are quite a few out there who want to update their thumbnail too so I thought I’ll let you know here.

Update Alexa Thumbnail

If you were wondering Alexa is a web traffic information provider (they are from Amazon) which mainly gives (inaccurate) traffic statistics. It gives every site an ‘Alexa score’; a score of one would be the most popular site. I mentioned ‘inaccurate’ in brackets above because the rank is based on the Alexa toolbar users so if you are hearing about Alexa for the first time you’ll realize how inaccurate it is, one Internet user already left behind and not considered in the rankings. I think I’ll talk about the service itself some time later, for now I think I’ll just stick to the title.

The Alexa thumbnail is displayed at a site’s traffic stats Alexa page. Generally it’s barely updated, so if you’ve had five face lifts for your website in the past five months the thumbnail would probably be a screenshot of how the site looked in the beginning and you would probably want it to be updated because it probably would have looked <insert negative adjective here> back then.

All you have to do is visit your site’s details. Click ‘Edit Site Info’ on the sidebar and click ‘update thumbnail image of yoursite.com’. That’s it! The site then says it’ll be updated in 48 hours but it should get updated in just a few hours.

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dettox
Apr 12, 2008 at 04:07:13

with the link in alexa site’s details, the thumbnail was updated on technorati but not on alexa. why?

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luq
Apr 12, 2008 at 04:10:07

It takes a while for alexa to update the thumbnail,how long has it been since you clicked the update thumbnail button in the alexa website?

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dettox
Apr 12, 2008 at 10:17:55

on technorati help pages i read that to update the thumbnail i have to do on alexa, and so i did 1 week ago, but it’s strange that the technorati’s thumbnail was updated but alexa one not.
thanks for the reply

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luq
Apr 12, 2008 at 10:44:56

Probably a system glitch,try updating it again, it should work

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