Alexa shows completely different site for my domain

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by FarmerOak, Jan 15, 2007.

  1. #1
    I'm not sure where this goes, but this is close. I've noticed for a long time that one of my sites, www.reallybored.net is actually tracking some university in Alexa's rankings. See here: http://alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=http://www.reallybored.net

    I want to report it so I can actually track my stats, but my question is, is there any benefit to having a phantom 4,419 ranking? Should I just leave it alone?

    I searched all over Google but couldn't find anything this big, only people complaining about popup calcs and Alexa tracking small pages.

    Thanks for any insight
     
    FarmerOak, Jan 15, 2007 IP
  2. Anghus

    Anghus Peon

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    Seems like you are getting the stats from them instead. Do you have shared hosting?
     
    Anghus, Jan 15, 2007 IP
  3. FarmerOak

    FarmerOak Active Member

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    Yes, but this domain has been hosted at at least 3 different servers over the years. I bought it from someone who had purchased the domain a few months earlier, etc. From what I can tell, it's always been like this.
     
    FarmerOak, Jan 15, 2007 IP
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    oseymour Well-Known Member

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    I've never seen that before
     
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  5. FarmerOak

    FarmerOak Active Member

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    Yeah, me either. I don't get any benefit from this error as far as I can tell, but there might be something now or in the future that would help or hurt me if I leave it alone. I wanted to see if anyone has seen this or has had it happen to them
     
    FarmerOak, Jan 16, 2007 IP
  6. Saxon

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    I've had this problem before. Quite some time ago mind.
    If I remember correctly I had to go through the process of adding the site again to Alexa. ie creating the special file with site details, uploading it to the server. Seem to remember doing something so it grabbed a new screenshot as well.
    Anyway, it took a while for it to update but eventually sorted itself out.

    As to whether it is of any benefit having better stats than you actually have - I don't think so.
     
    Saxon, Jan 16, 2007 IP
  7. seeyalater

    seeyalater Well-Known Member

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    They've had the wrong site for our website for years and we tried emailing them dozens of times, but noone ever got back to us. We even notified the other site they show instead of ours.
     
    seeyalater, Jan 16, 2007 IP