How to get Alexa to update your thumbnail.
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In the past few weeks I have updated updated this site, but still on my Alexa Traffic page and my results on Google with the GooglePreview plugin enabled I use it will be displaying the older (outdated) picture. btw. if you want to learn how to start of blogging check [here].
Out with the old
Here is what the site looked like 3 weeks ago. This was before I had the blog on here, but it did have my guide to blogging on it.
In with the new
And here is what it looks like right now (for historical reason I’ll include a screenshot too).
So you can see why I wanted to have the thumbnail updated , i.e. to show off ! Plus if people use the google preview plugin they will be expecting a website to look like the picture.
How to get Alexa to update
So down to business; it is possible to tell Alexa to revisit and take a new screenshot to be used with you site. Alexa should update itself if you wait that long. But in case you can’t you need to do the following:
- Visit : http://thumbnails.alexa.com/update_thumbnail and enter in your URL
- Wait 48 hours to give Alexa a chance.
- Recheck to make sure everything was done as you wished.
So there you have it !
EDIT : my page has been updated already, so it took closer to 24hours to be updated. (08-21-2007)
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13 Comment(s)
By Glen Allsopp | Reply
Simple, yet does the job
By B. Durant | Reply
Never knew that, thanks!
By Jason | Reply
thanks for the tips. I wanted to update it since i designed my site
By BeckyS | Reply
Glad it helped !
FYI mine is updated already
See here
By shaun | Reply
haha perfect, my site is in the process of getting re-designed right now so I will do this when my new site is up
hopefully you get some good traffic from that !
P.S just stumbled this post
By BeckyS | Reply
Thanks Shaun, let’s see what happens.
The post has already got a few hits from somewhere…. must check into it now …
By Jass | Reply
Nice tip. How do I update the preview on google with the firefox plugin ?
By GnomeyNewt | Reply
Thanks for the great tip! Going to do this now.
By 89er | Reply
I would have thought Alexa being such a corporate giant that they would update every 3 months or so. I guess them fellows are just a bit lazy !
By Tay - Make Money Blogging | Reply
I just commented on your post about getting Technorati to update your thumbnail, and it was a huge help. This was too! I never knew how to get my site’s thumbnail updated, but now thanks to you I do.
By BeckyS | Reply
I’m glad it helped you Tay. Thanks for stopping by and leave a nice comment,
By JimThePCGuy | Reply
This was exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for taking the time to share your findings!
By BeckyS | Reply
Glad it helped Jim, nice site btw!