Alexa.com...What good is this?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by acw, Jun 24, 2011.

  1. #1
    From what i've read, Alexa Ratings are based on Data comprised of surfers who "have" the Alexa Toolbar Installed on their machine.

    1. What good is this Data?

    2. Is Alexa able to determine approximately how many people actually visit a Site on a Given Day?

    3. I know that they give you an "Estimated percentage of global internet users who visit"...but WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

    Is there any websites out there that can estimate (with reasonable acutacy the number of visitors per day?
     
    acw, Jun 24, 2011 IP
  2. DPointing

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    Alexa is still considered an authority on website rankings. And let me clear that they collect data from other sources also in addition to the toolbar.
     
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  3. sultanofseo

    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    alexa data is totally unreliable as it is solely based on users who have alexa toolbar installed. i wouldn't pay any attention to alexa traffic data
     
    sultanofseo, Jun 25, 2011 IP
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    i only know that they collect data
     
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  5. Katieholms

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    Hello,

    Alexa is very well known for it's tool bar and website.It will inform you about the traffic and the Alexa rank of your site.It tracks the site information without earning the site.It's page rank is based on the number of visits to your website always offers you the information of the site that you visit too.
     
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  6. madhusmita

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    Alexa ranking is very important for the SEO.It provide the rank according to the number of visitors to your site.This is the main aim of the SEO to get more visitors.More visitors can help to get more back links and also improving the key words which can again help to get better indexing.
     
    madhusmita, Jun 25, 2011 IP
  7. akasheg

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    Alexa rank is dependent only the people who use their toolbar so they count for their visits only and also alexa rank is based on a 3 month data so it is generally outdated so it does not accurately determine a sites traffic.
     
    akasheg, Jun 25, 2011 IP
  8. reelstuff

    reelstuff Active Member

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    The idea that Alexa is only about a tool bar is somewhat short sighted, first you should look at who owns alexa, ?

    Amazon.com owns Alexa, Amazon has one of the largest data centers on the face of the planet, second to Google, but not by much.

    Those that were around back in the early days when Amazon was just getting started, they were laughed at, Amazon for investing an unheard of amount of money in hardware and data centers, everyone said that Amazon would go bust in five months or less, but that did not happen in fact the opposite happened.

    So, think carefully before you consider how important Alexa actually might be.

    The smart money is with Amazon, in fact, as far as long term innovation and growth is concerned, I would favor Amazon over many other companies.
     
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  9. zigzag007

    zigzag007 Active Member

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    People can manipulate Alexa rank, not very trustworthy.
     
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  10. dcristo

    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    Yep its pretty useless I don't even have the alexa toolbar installed anymore.
     
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    Alexa is not so good page ranking and it just wasting time to user. It will better to use google page rank.
     
    mygold, Jun 25, 2011 IP
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    I personally believe on alexa. They give the approx. result of the website.
    What actually information can you get via Page Rank???
     
    Tanya Roberts, Jun 25, 2011 IP
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    Markwebuk Well-Known Member

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    Yes, that's very true. We should not rely just on Alexa ranking as can be manipulated since it's ranking depends on user using it's toolbar while browsing any website.
     
    Markwebuk, Jun 26, 2011 IP
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    sousen Active Member

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    I don’t bother about Alex data and its ranking it won’t help me anything, it’s just give some information about website
     
    sousen, Jun 26, 2011 IP
  15. akasheg

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    Yes we do know who owns alexa we are just talking about the current situation we don't know what alexa is going to be in the future but right now its traffic data is not trustable.
     
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    Alexa is great tool, but I work with google tools only. We are all trying to get google's traffic not Alexa, right? go with google tools.
     
    jcyber, Jun 26, 2011 IP