Which one to consider - Google PR or Alexa?

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  1. #1
    While evaluating a site which should be of first concern - Google PR or Alexa?
    Thanks
     
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  2. Canonical

    Canonical Well-Known Member

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    Neither. Both are terrible metrics.
     
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    Sake7 Well-Known Member

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    Alexa is better ...
     
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    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    #4
    none of them. PR dont mean anything and alexa ranking can be way off.
     
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  5. Yasil

    Yasil Active Member

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    As I know that Page rank is help to get SERP, If we have good SERP Automatically our Alexa will increase...
     
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  6. Jameselle

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    #6
    Both of them is good.
     
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    #7
    There are both important because if you have a good PR alexa will follow.
     
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    magda Notable Member

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    #8
    No, no, both of them are bad.

    If you have access to comscore, that's a better third party data collection source - but it still has the shortfalls that any third party source will have.

    If you're considering buying the site, you need to look at the logs to know what traffic it really gets. If you're considering links - consider relevance - and check that the place your link will be on is indexed.
     
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  9. Mega B

    Mega B Well-Known Member

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    #9
    PR is not the Kudos it use to be but if you are either selling your site or selling advertising space on your site you can charge more for a higher PR but for the norm its visitors to the site that count more,and Alexa is just a rough barometer of how your site is doing and thats about all that can be said about it really.
     
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    alexa is worthless. PR may or may not be useful depending on what you need the site for.
     
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    #11
    Google PR is the best one
    Alexa is not a correct one in Ranking !
     
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    prashantban Well-Known Member

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    #12
    both of dem hold equal importance.
    but i prefer google more because it shows more correct statistics.
    since google has more authority towards your site , they tend to show not exactly but near to that data.
    alexa has less authority and dey show almost incorrect data...
     
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  13. Sake7

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    #13
    I don't understand you guys.
    Alexa and google are simple (and third party also) indicators, not standards.
    If you see a site with PR7, it's a good indicator that we have a website with possible strong and related backlinks. But if you want to be sure, you must check them, because it is possible to have tons of unrelated links (for example, if we have tons of links from high pr flash games websites for an insurance website the pr would be high, but SERPs position very low).

    With alexa is the same story. So... if you see the correct thing in each indicator (alexa, google PR, and so one), you might find them very useful. But if you consider a website "GREAT" just because it has a good PR, and after that you see the revers, don't blame the google PR :) blame yourself.
     
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    #14
    I always check Google first, then Alexa.
    However, neither of them is perfect but they can give a rough estimate of a site's potential.
     
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    Both are goog. Google to see if it is banned and alexa for trafic
     
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    I think Alexa is the best and I thing Google page rank is planned to be discontinued, perhaps because you can fool pagerank by linking to other sites with a high page rank
     
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  17. dipali

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    #17
    Both are good but only concerned thing is who is impressed by your pr or alexa rank.
     
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    #18
    I think alexa is much better, but in this forum when you wanna sell something, people on this forum see PR not Alexa ranking
     
    robyries, Nov 19, 2009 IP