Any one give me some incite into how Alexa works? I have a site that is traffic rank of: 988,845 Is this good or bad it also says its up 44% on 3 month change. Any one know where there is any info on this to brose through.
I started reading up on Alexa last night Alexa is a subsidiary of Amazon.com You are ranked by Alexa through the amount of traffic you get to your site. Dose it rank the traffic through the tool bar it offers or the exact traffic your getting? Dose it rank webmasters sites higher as they might offer there visitors the tool bar? Most webmasters think it’s a crap but I still read that potential advertisers check the ranking is this true? This is as far as I have got up to know some say Alexa is a waist of time and others say they swear by it. As it’s a three month traffic data am going to offer the tool bar on one of my sites and see if it ups my possession. Can not hurt I suppose. Any info on this would help or link to content on Alexa that I can read please.
Alexa isn't accurate as it collects the information only from the visitors who have Alexa toolbar installed. Thats the reason Google is at Number 2 and Yahoo is Number 1. But, breaking into to 100,000 is a good sign of your site Development. They may be okay, but, not totally accurate. You can only look at Alexa's ranking while purchasing a site or a domain as this will give you a little glance at the stats of that site.
Alexa is just for fun but I'll most probabely use it though if I wanna buy a site..lol.. coz if the seller says 10K UV per month but Alexa is 1Million plus I would say he not telling the truth..
Additional information regarding our privacy policy, web crawling philosophy, and technology can be found on the following pages Privacy Policy and Technology. If you wish to change the contact information for your site, please visit our contact information editor. If you would like to suggest some Related Links, please visit our related link suggestion page. The Alexa crawler (robot), which identifies itself as ia_archiver in the HTTP "User-agent" header field, uses a web-wide crawl strategy. Basically, it starts with a list of known URLs from across the entire Internet, then it fetches local links found as it goes. There are several advantages to this approach, most importantly that it creates the least possible disruption to the sites being crawled. We will not index anything you would like to remain private. All you have to do is tell us. How? By using the Standard for Robot Exclusion (SRE). The SRE was developed by Martijn Koster at Webcrawler to allow content providers to control how robots behave on their sites. All of the major Web-crawling groups, such as AltaVista, Inktomi, and Google, respect this standard. Alexa Internet strictly adheres to the standard: The Alexa crawler looks for a file called "robots.txt". Robots.txt is a file website administrators can place at the top level of a site to direct the behavior of web crawling robots. The Alexa crawler will always pick up a copy of the robots.txt file prior to its crawl of the Web. If you change your robots.txt file while we are crawling your site, please let us know so that we can instruct the crawler to retrieve the updated instructions contained in the robots.txt file. To exclude all robots, the robots.txt file should look like this: User-agent: * Disallow: / To exclude just one directory (and its subdirectories), say, the /images/ directory, the file should look like this: User-agent: * Disallow: /images/ Web site administrators can allow or disallow specific robots from visiting part or all of their site. Alexa's crawler identifies itself as ia_archiver, and so to allow ia_archiver to visit (while preventing all others), your robots.txt file should look like this: User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow:
Because their data comes from their toolbar, Alexa data has a huge webmaster skew (since webmasters have the greatest incentive to install it). Google search guru Matt Cutts writes about it here: mattcutts.com/blog/thoughts-on-alexa-data/ (sorry it's not a link, but I'm new and not allowed to post them yet
Im surprised about the toolbar fact. I never knew you had to have an alexa toolbar to have your site recorded. I had this feeling ages ago that one of the default spyware or bugs that we often had on windows xp (initially) were the Alexa stuff....maybe I'm mistaken. Then again, toolbars make sense. I guess the best way to know your ranking is only when you signup for a program like analytics and add their monitoring code to your script. Regards
If you're serious about website stats, I've found Woopra to be quite useful. Woopra offers real-time traffic monitoring and has a nice java client that shows a number of useful statistics. Google Analytics and Quantcast are also good.
In my opinion, Alexa is not a good tool for us,you know that ,the number of your web on alexa due to how many people click in your web who must install alexa toolbar.
alexa is useless, but whoeever gets a good alexa rank, its good, cause that means ppl which visits your website are genuine and have installed Alexa, and have sense of SEO.