For whatever reason...One fine day I found out that my blog was blocked by Blogger since it was considered a spam blog and blogger wanted to discourage spam linking as well. So I had to send them an unlock request...not once but twice. Somebody (as in a living human being) was supposed to review it and then decide if it was spam or not. Since I can now access it, I guess, someone did review it and decided that this blog wasn't spam indeed.
Looking for help, I found that this has happened to several other innocent, unsuspecting bloggers as well. Alas, I am not alone in my agony.
When I first began putting up posts...I honestly has no idea what Alexa was but everyone in the blogoshpere was talking about their Alexa ranking.
Digging more info. I found out that Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is best known for operating a website that provides information on the web traffic to other websites. Alexa collects information from users who have installed an "Alexa Toolbar," allowing them to provide statistics on web site traffic, as well as lists of related links. Without further adieu I went ahead and got myself the Alexa toolbar and saw that my blog was ranked 3,159,519 and it was not even deemed worth of collecting stats since it was not in the first 1,000,000.
45 days later, today - 2 Nov 07, I find my ranking to have risen to 2,141,896. Have overtaken little over a million others. I am very excited and hope to keep updating this blog regularly to get within the first million pages soon.
Will keep updating my Alexa rank here.
update - 9 Nov 2007 - Ranked - 1,929,499.
update - 11 Dec 2007 - Ranked - 1,718,557.
