Alexa Rankings and Traffic

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Marx, Sep 11, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hi

    I know Alexa rank is not very accurate but I have always found it to be a relatively useful tool for working out the popularity of a site.

    However I have come across a problem, I know of a site that has an Alexa rank of 30K ish. However it is claimed it only gets a few hundred uniques a day.

    Has anyone come across something like this before ? do you think they have placed the Google analytics wrong on the page and the site is in fact getting much more traffic ?

    Just seem really strange to me ?

    Cheers Marx
     
    Marx, Sep 11, 2007 IP
  2. sacada2

    sacada2 Well-Known Member

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    here's my own experience with alexa. before i have alexa toolbar installed and my site have less than 50 visitors per day, but my alexa ranking is 250,000. when i reinstalled my OS, i forgot to install the toolbar. my site traffic increased from 100 t0 200+ per day but i was surprised when I saw my alexa ranking reached 1,300,000. So i installed the toolbar again, my site rank now is 1,200,000.
     
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    1092387456 Peon

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    people could be using some kinda of alexa boast. I have a program that dose that. I moved my friends alexa form 1.5 mill to 700K.
     
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    speda1 Well-Known Member

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    Alexa data only reflects traffic from Alexa toolbar users.... a small, select group.
     
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    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    alexa stats are mostly sucks because they only log the visits which is made by alexa toolbar users
     
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    bogs Active Member

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    ^^thats right... thats why i don't rely on alexa...
     
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