I keep reading everywhere that Alexa ranking is inaccurate but im still curious. I have two sites One for about 2 months And another for just a few weeks. I know that hits are coming into these two sites, because of my webalyzer stats for my site, and my google stats. Both of my sites have a ranking of: NO DATA on alexa? Any reasons why?
Isn't the Alexa Ranking only measured by users that have the Alexa bar installed? That might be it. But they take ages to update the first times anyway...
Thanks for the update on that... That seems kind of out there to only count the ones that are using your product to rank others.
yes, alexa rank is very inaccurate as many webmasters have made programs to 'exploit' their websites alexa rank. Look in my sig you shall see a video showing how easy it is, as i also have this program after 20 mins of searching through the net. Not everyone has an alexa toolbar installed and the ones that do are in certain countrys look into youre cpanel stats you shall see a big driffence in the countrys with better alexa rank.
Great video. So its safe to say people do this all the time to boost there rank. Are there any other sites you know of that accurately track traffic?
Alexa rankings are quite inaccurate. I give you an example. One of my site has medium-traffic (like 200-300 unique visitors per day). I checked Alexa and there was no rank of the site. I installed Alexa toolbar in my browser and after two weeks, I saw that the ranking shot up and 100% visitors came from Pakistan (where I love). Whereas Google Analytics and other tracking software installed show that it's India from where most of the traffic comes and Pakistan is the second. Also, a good traffic comes from UK, USA, Canada and Middle East (where Indians & Pakistanis reside because the site is related to them). So, Alexa rankings are inaccurate and I would never trust them.