alexa ranking: what do you consider good traffic?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by pkyi, Nov 22, 2008.

  1. #1
    I installed the alexa toolbar which measures site traffic, and got to thinking: what is a "good" traffic in terms of numbers?

    Obviously, yahoo is #1, and google is #2.

    vB is at 25,674.

    Would you consider anything under 100,000 good? Or, do you even care and think traffic rank is pointless?

    What's your opinion?
     
    pkyi, Nov 22, 2008 IP
  2. allout

    allout Prominent Member

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    Alexa traffic rankings are crap because they are too easy to manipulate. Some link selling places look at them for link value and some webmasters will pay more for links on lower Alexa numbers. However, in reality, it means nothing in terms of real traffic. Anyone really concerned with traffic will ask to see real live stats from Awstats or other accurate tracking systems.
     
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    drjupitor Banned

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    I think anything below 100k should be considered as good traffic. My health blog is having 300k+ alexa rank and it is giving traffic flow of about 1500/month. UV of about 1k. May be it is going to be better in future.
    Traffic rank has its own importance but the importance upto you how you measure it.
     
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    A rank under 100k is a pretty serious money making traffic.
     
    shane489, Nov 24, 2008 IP
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    I think Bentley Continental GT's are pretty good traffic. But don't call me "ranking", please.
     
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    I think after the latest changes to the code of Alexa, they give much better results...

    Under 300k i believe is good
    Under 100k i think is great...
     
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    Num Lock Active Member

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    I had a site that was under 100k, it was only getting 1500 uniques a day..

    So no Alexa rankings are not accurate at all
     
    Num Lock, Nov 24, 2008 IP
  8. Napoleon

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    hehe, nice one:p
     
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    IMO, a rank of 1-20000 can be considered good.

    20000-50000 is decent.

    50000-250000 will be making some money.

    (I am assuming all the above ranks are genuine).

    If you have an Alexa toolbar installed, your sites may get a better ranking than they would in normal circumstances.
     
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    Usually the benchmark I always set for myself is below 500k. Above that number, it’s not good.
     
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    As i understand it Alexa is a waste of space as it is not very accurate but i will confess that i have added a Alexa traffic widget to one of our newish Forums and this is currently showing about 675k which is heading in the right direction i guess.
     
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    I think under 500k is a good mark.
     
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    I think if ur in the top 100k ur doing plenty good. better than most
     
    buddywes1436, Nov 25, 2008 IP