Very strange- all sites rankings are gone since yesterday! Even biggie sites show a steep fall of Alexa. Any idea whats going on?
Nah, I am not trusting alexa Just curious how even Yahoo's rank disappeared since yesterday. I dont rely on it myself except for researching on extremely good ranked sites.. ranking gets fairly accurate then.
in the future if you wait one day - after having politely informed alexa with facts and screen shots - then u usually see a day or 2 later all fixed. accidents like this just happen once in a while - even G or Y DO have problems now and then. --- about those saying alexa is for nothing (TrimPop ) wrong alexa rank DOES have an influence on several advertising agencies ( NOT G adsense or YPN ). if you reach a certain alexa rank then u usually get invited by such ad-companies to join their advertising plans. there are other threads in DP forum on that topic.
For REAL traffic tracking, its usefulness is debatable. However, many paid per posts and site sales and domain sales sites factor in Alexa ratings. The real problem with Alexa is that it is relatively easy to fake.
I only like alexa when my alexa ranking goes up that means more link sales. Otherthan that it is really waste.
If you are a website owner, Alexa is great. Because people tend to trust Alexa for some reason and buy sites, advertising, links, etc. This is great. If your a person who buys sites, links, advertising, etc, Alexa sucks. It can easily be manipulated by webmasters wanting to sell you this stuff. It's easy. People who take advantage of Alexa love it, people who get taken advantage of because of Alexa, don't know the difference. Thats why it's bad sometimes.