compete and alexa rank

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by iamzak, Oct 9, 2007.

  1. #1
    my compete rank is 280,321
    alexa rank is 536000
    how good is this website is just 4 months old
     
    iamzak, Oct 9, 2007 IP
  2. manisha

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    #2
    alexa rank is just a statistic...look only at the impressions you are getting and the gains..dont loose focus on that..

    goodluck
     
    manisha, Oct 9, 2007 IP
  3. SolomonZhang

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    Alexa rank? Worthless for me. It's a very non trust-able ranking system. People can easily get to the top 10,000 in several days without any real visitors.
     
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  4. Directory4

    Directory4 Well-Known Member

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    I trust in Alexa rank because they often update their ranking info. And their ranking is based on real visitors for sure. If you see some websites which fake Alexa ranking, please show some sample. There maybe "Alexa Ranking Fake Checking Tools" in the future.
     
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  5. SolomonZhang

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    I'm not saying there is fake Alexa Rank. I'm saying you could easily manipulate Alexa Rank to "show off".

    Ask 20 of your friends install Alexa toolbar. Ask them to surf your site by hitting refresh at least 20 times a day. The more the merrier. You could get into top 10,000 in no time.

    For honest people Alexa rank could be quite an indicator. It has one big flaw though. The visitors should have Alexa Toolbar installed on the browsers. So it does not represent all of your visitors and of course not how heavy your traffic is. If you have Asian or African websites, you might have poor alexa rank although you have 1,000,000 visitors a month. Because mostly people here in asia don't know what alexa is and hate any kind of "suspicious" toolbar.

    So, I don't believe it because it's mainly used to "show off" or gain "trust" from visitors to buy. For me Alexa rank is like those old "visitor counter". It may say 1,000,000 but 999,880 of them might be the webmaster himself.
     
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  6. bomberman

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    536000 in alexa is quiet good but again don't rely to much on them. It is just an estimated traffic.
     
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    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    i think both shows nothink.

    alexa tools mostly sucks
     
    trichnosis, Oct 10, 2007 IP
  8. SolomonZhang

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    Hahaha. Yeah, mostly. However, I've found one that is very very very extremely super useful, and it's free. It's so powerful that Alexa closed it down to prevent any negative effect of the usage. Won't tell you though, it's already down and not available.
     
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  9. ValDD

    ValDD Banned

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    Better to look at the google page rank and even better than that is to look at your own traffic statistics by yourself - they don't lie or skew the truth ;)
     
    ValDD, Oct 10, 2007 IP
  10. dadougalee

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    Google Page Rank? lol Maybe last year. They rarely update that.

    500,000's isn't bad as far as I know. My website is about a month old, and it is in the 500,000's too.

    Compete ranking? I have no idea how that works. I signed my company up for it like 5 months ago, and the companies site still isn't even ranked even though it is a PR4 page. How did you get rank period in Compete?!
     
    dadougalee, Oct 16, 2007 IP
  11. Remotay

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    I've always been curious, How does Alexa figure out how much traffic sites get in order to rank them? =/
     
    Remotay, Oct 16, 2007 IP
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    Same here... anyone got any ideas on how to score a compete rank?
     
    turnerlittle, Sep 30, 2008 IP
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    i would trust alexa more than complete which is less prolific. overall, i'd use 'em as indicators but not as absolutes in terms of value of information.
     
    abercrombie, Sep 30, 2008 IP
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    The lower you go the more accurate it gets, anything over 100k changes all the time based on if you have the alexa toolbar installed so it doesn't really matter
     
    zurpit.com, Sep 30, 2008 IP
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    Alexa rank is a joke. I play with it like a kid play with his food. :D

    compete rank is a lot better since they count a visitor once per month. No matter how many times that visitor visits your site.
     
    kush86, Sep 30, 2008 IP
  16. theworldwinner

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    ya even wen no1 visits ur site except urself you get good alexa rank
     
    theworldwinner, Sep 30, 2008 IP
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    Yes, i agree. i don't think alexa rank is valid and representing our traffic rank. my blog is currently 300K on alexa. but my traffic is not good enough.
    But Nobody here explain about Compete Rank. mine is 0 compete rank although it have 300K Alexa
     
    canonsky, Feb 23, 2009 IP
  18. HentleyVentures

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    #18
    They're both great tools for estimates, but further due diligence is always necessary.

    Cheers
     
    HentleyVentures, Feb 23, 2009 IP
  19. Kumail

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    Hi,

    I have a website which has a very good Alexa ranking so far but no compete rank?
    http://www.naturalvitiligotreatment.com

    So, is this possible that Alexa of any website is good but it don't have any compete rank so far? Also please advise me how to get the website in both the rankings (Alexa and compete).

    Thank you
     
    Kumail, Jan 11, 2011 IP
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    Firstly describe about complete rank. I know about Alexa rank but not informed about complete rank?
     
    mohitsharma, Jan 18, 2011 IP