Alexa.com is such a joke

WELL BROTHERS...

Anyone has an idea that they use Cookies? Not toolbars!

 

Here's a good blog post on why you should completely ignore Alexa.
http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/03/07/why-you-should-completely-ignore-alexa-stats/

I personally like Quantcast and you can even put their stats tracking on your site to have it more accurate.
http://www.quantcast.com/quantified-publisher.jsp

 

Alexa is ok to make a quick judgement whether a website is popular and visited or not. If a website has really many visitors some percentage of them will have toolbar installed and it will reflect on the statistics.. And of course, webmaster related websites always rank better because most of the visitors have a toolbar, when entertainment websites tend to rank lower..

 

Alexa is losing importance every day, I don't see why people care too much about it.

 

Hehe see obviously you don't understand it as you can update the screen shot yourself.....

I think it's actually O.K , the people that really hate it are the ones that don't rank that high - so obviously it (Alexa) must be crap then huh ?

 

Alexa is easy to game and provides a very biased view of the web. People who use the Alexa toolbar are going to tend to be webmasters and people who are fairly advanced web users. Your holiday site is not going to get many visits from this type of people, but your web directory will. If you want to rank high on Alexa, just make a site about making or promoting websites.

In other words, I agree, Alexa is useless. I wish advertisers with some programs would stop insisting on a good Alexa ranking -- even though I somehow have a very decent Alexa ranking. I know what it felt like when I had a site that was way more popular than a competitor who ranked about a million places better in Alexa. I ranked higher in Google for the keywords we competed over, and my PR was higher, yet some people may have seen his Alexa rating and thought his site was the more valuable property.

 

Eyo. How long did it take you to realize this.
Webmaster related site (or sites that webmaster visit) have the clearcut advantage over all other sites since it is mostly webmasters who use this toolbar (and few of them at that).

 

Alexa is just one tool to measure a site. It isn't the end all be all.

When your site does not have much traffic, your results will vary widely. But it is just a numbers game like so many others. As you have higher traffic, your numbers average out and alexa becomes more accurate.

Hope that makes sense, but it's the law of large numbers.

 

Thats true. If your site managed to climb on a higher position, even if your site is down for over 6 months, your site will still keep the current rank or even surpass it. Lols.

 

Alexa is a joke , one of my websites was in 1.5ml with 800 hits daily
and the other one 900K with 500 hits daily . It's not a tool it's a nonsence

 

that is true because I visit pages of high PR but not even listed in Alexa - non US blogs or sites - and I doubt internet cafe will install alexa bars on IE of FF - or even know what alexa is

 

Everyone is talking about Alexa at the moment why is this?

 

I mean really think of all the mac users that can't download the alexa toolbar...

 

I have a site that barely gets 3k visitors/day and is in the top 100k...go figure...

 

Alex is only good if you have their toolbar. Which means it is not a good indicator of your web site traffic. It's good to see where you at but it's not the whole picture, it's not even 1/4 of it.

 

This evil plan to boost alexa rank http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/skyrocket-alexa-a-fun-experiment

 

Everyone is referring to the uniques being vital in measuring Alexa Rank the terms being used : "one of my sites got xxxx uniques and another got xxxx Uniques (less) and it still ranked higher"

This isn't how Alexa works, yes it's a factor - but it's also measured by how many pages on average each unique visits.

 

This is not new, very very old issue. In short 'Alexa Sucks'.

 

Alexa is useless in somany waysssssss.AFter all rank can be bumped to top100 without spending much money.You need to be sure visitors have alexa toolbar installed