Alexa is a joke. I have a site that has about 20,000 uniques a month... They say it's worth 30,000+... I don't think so.
I dont completely rely on Alexa, instead I just use it as a guide. There are some flaws in there which do not always give you an accurate measure.
Yeah, Alexa is Not Perfect tool to measure success is website. Alexa rank can manipulate with fake clicks.
While many people think that alexa is waste of space, there are still lot of people who believe in alexa... No matter what alexa do and how they do, Alexa ranking is really important because 1) Many search engines takes your Alexa ranking a one of the factor for your website's PR 2) Some big ad networks make a condition that your site must have a minimum of xxxxx ranking to be approved for that network 3) Your website's worth is calculated based on your Alexa ranking too. So, Alexa ranking is still very important, irrespective of how they calculate it
I agree, it is very inaccurate, but... ... look at this situation: Someone offers you advertising on his site and he claims he gets 200 uniques per day. You log on, the site looks really nice, but... the Alexa rank is 5,000,000 Will you advertise on this site? I hope not because there's no way he's getting 200 uniques. No way! I completely agree with the guys who say that Alexa is inaccurate but in general the sites that are outside top 3 million are pretty useless. When looking at Alexa, keep the niche in mind. A SEO-Tips or Get-Rich-Qwick site with Alexa 700,000 will be gettin' a similar amount of traffic as "Jen's Super Smoothie Recipes" with Alexa 2,500,000 because few housewives tamper with Alexa toolbar. They think that a toolbar is a piece of wood you put your hot pan on.
Agreed, even some buyer like to buy site with good alexa rank. for pagerank, I think we already knew that its quite important as one of your site selling point. but instead of both of them, good quality posts are more important.
alexa ranking is joke. yes, it is not so use full & i do not care for this. the only thing i do care is google.
so can we conclude tat, we use PR for primary reference and alexa for optional indication of site ranking?
I don't think it really matters, I don't cheat and still have an occult forum with an rank below 200,000 (153,794 at the time of this post). In the US it's ranked 35,429 and I don't cheat, but I wonder what would happen if I did? http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/occultcorpus.com#trafficstats Seriously, if my site can make it that high, there is something wrong! PR3 with only a handful of backlinks, and modest traffic (with nearly no traffic from India or Asia) very little exposure on social networking sites, and according to a thread I once posted, I think I'm about the only one with an alexa toolbar *(I use Search Status)... and I only get online once or twice a week. In order for me to trust the numbers, they would need to completely redo the entire system...
Do you guys know any alternate to Alexa? I know it sometimes is rubbish but haven't you seen PageRank 5 websites with less than 1000 useless backlinks? Every system has its drawbacks but we should appreciate some tools just for being there. I personally love Alexa ranking.