i am not sure but may be because many people who put the widget at their sites found that their ranking became better so i am sure the widget can help you to improve your ranking at Alexa.
I heard that you only get alexa rank from people who have the alexa toolbar, which is why its not accurate. just wat I heard
Alexa ranking is imprtant for very basic reason that some advertisers use it estimate how much you can get paid for advertisement. So it is always better to have good alexa ranking. On ther other hand if you build your traffic using all the available methods, alexa rank will also improve as your site traffic will increase.
Any advertiser that uses Alexa for anything other than knowingly fleecing someone is stupid. I know how bad alexa ranking is, it is a joke, Alexa lists a site of mine that has 300 a month uniques as having 4 times the traffic than another site of mine that gets 10,000 a month uniques LOL never take alexa numbers seriously for ANYTHING
You cannot hide from the reality. There are ad network which use Alexa ranking to determine how much to pay a publisher. So no matter what you think, it is a reality that Alexa do have some importance. The only thing which you can debate on is if one should intentionally try to increase alexa rank or not. I would say if a site is getting good traffic, alexa rank will improve anyway without you doing any effort for it. Main thing is traffic.
There's an Alexa Bot and there's widgets and toolbars. Make a page explaining it with links to all the tools for visitors letting them know it will help increase their stats for their own pages, in return also helping you.
well then it should be a responsibility of boards like us and knowledgable webmasters to point out the innaccuracies and discourage anyone from taking alexa numbers seriously.... instead of following like sheep and actually promoting a dangerously flawed system
I disagree. I think raising the awareness of Alexa can be used. Explaining and pitching it to your members in a way that benefits them will allow you to benefit as well.
that is just a greed approach you are saying that getting people to use alexa will benefit you by artificially raising your traffic stats basically I prefer to be honest and warn people about the inaccuracies of it, rather than selfishly try to use it to fake that my site has more traffic than someone elses
How is it artificial? The traffic is there it's just now showing up because they put the toolbar on. It's not like submitting paid stumbles or diggs. It's legitimate. The reason I said you have to pitch it is because they have to see a benefit out of installing the toolbar.