How to Display Alexa Thumbnail Images of Web sites

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From our archive: this post was first published in 2006 and is kept for reference. Products, prices and links mentioned here may have changed. For up-to-date help, see our latest tech guides.

Have you seen those websites which display your website thumbnail images beside your sites listing. Many of these websites import these images from Alexa.

You too can now display Alexa Thumbnail Images of Web sites on your websites easily. The Alexa Site Thumbnail web service (external site) provides developers with access to thumbnail images for the home pages of web sites and enables developers to enhance web sites, search results, web directories, blog entries, and other web real estate with Alexa thumbnail images.

It is no longer free and you will be charged $0.0002 / thumbnail returned (i.e. $0.20 per 1,000 thumbnails). Pay only for what you use and there is no charge if the thumbnail does not exist.

All thumbnail images are accessible via web services, using SOAP or REST. Developers need to download the Alexa Site Thumbnail Utility Package, in your language of choice to get started. Read the Getting Started and Developer guides to implement Alexa thumbnails on your site.

[Updated Dec 2006 to reflect new policy change]

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6 Comments

  1. I do not rely on Alexa, just create thumbnail images on my own server using free component,

    http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/website-thumbnail-generator.php

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  3. Alexa released their thumbnails as a very cheap paid service, and they also provide all the necessary code.

    https://aws.amazon.com/

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  4. Hey, thanks for this post…it is exactly what I was looking for! The only thing that I am confused about is the third item in their criteria list (“You link to site info pages on Amazon.com”). Did you understand what they meant by this?

    Thanks again for your help!

    –Joe

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  6. yea adbrite also uses the same image but i wanna know do we have to put the adbrite or amazon affilate to update the image

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