Is there a way to find only sites with increasing Alexa rank?

[Nat]

I've been looking through Alexa in various categories trying to find some sites to traffic leak from. But over 90% of the places I've found (I'm specifically trying to find places where you can register) have been steadily declining in Alexa rank. Reddit and Behance are climbing, but lots of platforms I keep finding with userbases are steadily declining -- like ello and we<3it and lots of other general social platforms.

Is there any way to only find growing alexa rank sites (without buying premium)?

 

[CCarter]

Programmatically, yes - rather easy. How we do it at SERPWoo is we download the Alexa top 1 million list daily (http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip) then compare the differences and find websites with the highest increases and decreases daily. But what I would do in your case is program it to track the changes of domains with upward movement, in consecutive days - example upward movement for 5 days and below 100,000 Alexa rank; then output that resulting list, and visit the website to see if there is user generated content to leak traffic from.

 

[Nat]

Programmatically, yes - rather easy. How we do it at SERPWoo is we download the Alexa top 1 million list daily (http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip) then compare the differences and find websites with the highest increases and decreases daily. But what I would do in your case is program it to track the changes of domains with upward movement, in consecutive days - example upward movement for 5 days and below 100,000 Alexa rank; then output that resulting list, and visit the website to see if there is user generated content to leak traffic from.

Brilliant, thank you. I didn't even realize the top million list existed.

 

[Nat]

I just figured out another way to find some new-ish social websites that are growing. Its pretty obvious, but maybe worth sharing. I looked up seed funding / angel funding websites and filtered the sites they endorsed/funded by social. There are so many 'start-ups' these days that I doubt many will be 'huge,' but some of them are niche specific which could be nice for some people. I'm also hoping that as I learn to 'automate' that some of these newer sites don't have the same security/detection features that the big sites do.