What's the purpose of Alexa ratings in directories, do owners really want to show this info? I mean to say that not only is Alexa pretty much unreliable but it gives the directory visitor a totally false impression, as the linked site might be way better than the Alexa graph is saying? Is it just a gimmick to make it look like the submittor is getting v.f.m?
well these days alexa is showing more info, with country traffic as well, and it is a part of overall directory information request a user might ask before submiting to a particular directory.
Good point there, I'm not in any way condemning the use of these kind of features just questioning the efficacy of them.
Hey you are webmaster right ? If you worry about them showing your alexa ranking why even bother submit to directory? Simple as that right? Instead of trying to read millions of directory owners mind and telling them hey alexa is bull get rid of it and i will submit my site, you think they care about 1 single submission?
You don't half make wild claims paidhosting, "million of directory owners" Yeah okay. mind you, didn't you say you were a big time host provider from Canada but uses a reseller account? Read the OP, Answer the OP, instead of having a go at me as you don't half sound like a catty little bitch when you do. Original post, What's the purpose of Alexa ratings in directories, do owners really want to show this info? By this I mean owners of companies, not the directory owners.
Alexa, like page rank, is dextremely relevant to directories, Afterall, its mostly web folk that have the alexa bar, its mostly web folk that submit to directories, ergo , Alexa rank has a direct correllation to directory popularity relative to other directories
Alexa is not a way to judge value of a web site but it certainly gives a relevant information. I mean, for a well promoted site, you will always see high Alexa value. So, it may not give such an accurate information but I don't think it gives any false impression. From Directory submitters point of view, It may not add value to there listing but its certainly not going have nay negative effect. For some users, its useful info for some its not. Its just the way it is.
I dont trust alexa There are over 50 million websites and alexa measures them all! WTH...never trust that, though I trust Google PR as its ince evry 3-6 months.
I don't really see the point in listing Alexa ranks, especially considering how easy it is to manipulate. It's not an accurate view of how popular a site is at all.
hmm let me see alexa .... if that is pointless than all this backlink count showing is too ... because maybe the site is new !!! *Darn* So obviously the alexa number is going to be high .... you want a site 1 month old to get the same reputation as the site 5 yr old ... Umm i dont think so .. i will show alexa because i want each sites to deserve what they should get ... and when the site is new ... Promoters promote it ... yeah the day it got listed was the 5th day of site being launched .. come back to that listing in 3 months ... shoot the site is under 50k ... its just to provide stats ... not to misguide the user... and tell you what ... a user gets attracted by thumbnail and the description ... and if they really like that ... they will definately check the site out for sure... Same thing with PR if you look at it that way.. the first day the site was pr 0 ... so it misguides the user .. because when Chris submitted his site to idk ... Big Web Links was pr 0 ... shoot after the update pr 7 ... all these are .... just numbers... just another addon ... i add it because i want the site detail page to be as detailed as it can be
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Alexa is ofcourse a way to attract people to your directory and its isnt that accurate at all , BUT you do have an indication of the traffic to the site (being relevant or not) also google looks at alexa ranks so if you link your site and get alot of traffic then you will also benefit from it .... i must confess that it looks more like marketing to me than practical use
I don't use Alexa stats, nor do I show PR. Whether or not this leaves my directories any less useful depends on which angle you're looking at it. Webmasters care about these things, but I don't think non-webmasters do. Whether the website has lots of traffic or not doesn't usually help to answer the question, "is this link going to be relevant to me?" Especially when Alexa stats are heavily skewed in favour of certain interest groups.