Comments on: Alexa Ratings Complete Rubbish

By: Franca Richard

Franca Richard — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:44:17 +0000

undeniable alexa rank is still important for a blog or website … u can also use compete dot come or a similar service, but still, alexa is the most powerful nowadays.

By: digitalnomad

digitalnomad — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:06:48 +0000

OK, so more traffic is good. I am back here checking to see if there are any update on this.

Any updates from experiments?

By: Jason Neuman

Jason Neuman — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:43:13 +0000

Back from the Maldives Now:

Great input, thanks. Well whatever the sources or statics are I am still going to work on getting ranked as high as possible because it generates traffic when you get into the top movers or top 10,000 and I want more traffic…

By: digitalnomad

digitalnomad — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:02:15 +0000

To Paula:
Crap, now I have to reconsider Alexa. Thanks for the update.

By: PAULA MOONEY

PAULA MOONEY — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:59:28 +0000

Oops! Sorry, Jason — my bad.

I followed your link and then found the SearchStatus thingee to download Alexa Toolbar for Firefox and I realized it DID work.

The Alexa Rank (as well as Google’s PageRank) shows up on the bottom of my screen at the right. I was looking for it at the top.

Plus, I put my Alexa graphic in a prominent place on my blog — so hopefully this will move up my Alexa Rank from 191,000-something where it is now.

I believe it will work!

Thanks so much for the great post — ignore my cranking comment I left before…

Paula

By: digitalnomad

digitalnomad — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:48:46 +0000

I agree with Paula and Nullvariable…too much trouble. Who wants to deal with another toolbar. Besides, your post and others shows how unreliable the Alexa information really is.

I have read other articles that confirm the measurement is merely run by the toolbar, or heavily weighted that way. If your gaming the toolbar, you are only fooling yourself.

There are better ways to build traffic me thinks.

By: Nullvariable

Nullvariable — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:30:20 +0000

I believe that Alexa collects information from other sources as well. Obviously just as Google is very secertive about their algorithyms Alexa is difficult to read on exactly how they determine traffic. I believe that the Alexa traffic badges also contribute to how they gauge traffic. My site has a very low number of visitors at present and only 50% of the users are using IE. Based on that only 50% of my visitors have the potential to be running the Alexa toolbar and odds are there are less than 100% of the IE users running the toolbar there can’t be many users running the toolbar visiting my site. But my site is still pulling a ranking of over 600k but only after I dropped the button in for showing my ranking. Prior to adding the button there was no data for my site.

While I imagine that the more visitors you have running the better your rank I can’t believe that this measurement is merely run by the toolbar. I already have way to many toolbars on my system so I won’t bother to use the Alexa version as it doesn’t provide any features I don’t already have.