hi guys, i heard that alexa is just a scam and cant be trusted coz its values can be easily changed using some proxy softwares and firefox addons and stuff. is it true? thanks..
Hm, I won't use scam. But sure, alexa can't be trusted because they make their rankings using a toolbar, and only a small percent in the web users have that tool installed. But still, as bigger your rank is as bigger the traffic, considering an algorithm like 10% from 100 is smaller than 10% from 1000 so bigger chances for the toolbar to be installed. I have sites which rank high in alexa but still I consider it having a low accuracy.
Yes to can't be trusted for their rankings. However, it is NOT a scam and is a nice tool to use since Google doesn't give out their toolbar info so much. People can cheat in Alexa though to give themselves a fake ranking, unfortunately.
At the office, about 3-4 of our web sales guys installed the alexa toolbar to help them scout out potential clients using the "Related Links" feature. We had a client tracking portal mostly for internal use which ended up going from not being ranked to getting a ranking in the mid 60,000's before it stayed around there. The website gets about 30-40 visitors a day. Meanwhile, the main company site has a ranking around 50,000 with 2k-3k visits / day. So yeah, it's unreliable at the higher numbers. I can "inflate" an Alexa (a scam service some sell in the BST section here) simply by writing some Javascript that refreshes the page of a web site. But to be fair, rankings below 1,000 or so would be extremely hard to fake. The closer you get to 1, the more truly bigger the website is.
Some companies and some people are still using Alexa to measure how good a website is. And I agree with peoplesmind, ranking below 1,000 would be hard to fake and is not easy to get that low.
I am using Alexa and I don't have any reason to say that it is a scam, but compare to Google it's less helpful.
Alexa ranks depend a lot upon adding their tool bar and counter on our website but then also we can't deny their value.
A big LOL,,,, Thats all what I could say about this thread Alexa in 100% legit but sometimes, the ranking they show, is a bit slippy.
that is right my friend but alexa isn't only depending in the tool bar they looks for your website popularity, how much backlinks you have, your website history and more my best wishes for you
Its not a scam, its just not very trustworthy for ranking. Alexa rank can be controlled and is controlled by a lot of webmasters easily