Is Alexa Rank worth anything?

i recently purchase a "directory" site and within the past 4 months it's dropped from PR4 to PR3 and now to zero.

However the alexa rank has shot up from 559,000 to 169,600. Is this worth anything?

 

yes
I love site with pagerank 0 abd get alexa under 200k.
quite good

 

Alexa is all about traffic.. It has nothing to do with PR.
I wud prefer my website to be in alexa 100, then its PR being 9-10.

 

Alexa is Traffic of people using thier toolbar..
PageRank is Backlinks to your site which google recognizes

2 Diffrent things.

 

Alexa rank sucks, in simple terms. Just forget about it.

 

Well it isn't worth much but it's cool if you get listed in top 100...but than you need a very active site
So I don't think it's worth much, but at least when you get big it's worth something

Greetz

 

Pagerank and traffic are equally important for a directory . Alexa is giving only a rough estimation on our site . But its always an inspiration to see the graph going up with the work progress.

 

Hi,
it is really good if you are getting good rank in alexa means....
all people who visit your site know all about seo also..

 

Pointing out that alexa rank sucks, is the same thing as saying "I don't like traffic".

Many would rather be in the 100K alexa rank than having a high PR.

But there is one negative thing about alexa and that's that it estimates traffic pretty roughly and can around 100,000 be up or down several 1000's.

If you manage to come in the top 10, congratulations

 

Alexa rank still have a value, some will say it dosnt.
But then some say PR has no value.

What value it has to you depends on what your goals are.
Dont rely on it as the definative measure of your traffic, because its not.

There are those who will judge your site on the value of your Alexa rank.
But, as with all ranking systems, Alexa can be manipulated!


Conclusion::

Decide what your goals are and set your importance by that.

 

thanks for the comments - it's great to see people justifying there views.

my goal is to make money on the project, or at least to get back what i invested i.e. the domain and the software upgrades. so i'm thinking that the best way to sell it is to say that the alexa rank is worth it.

 

Thanks for the advice

 

Five digit Alexa rank is useful, provided it's real traffic.

See the article in my signature for an explanation of the Alexa bias for webmaster/seo/etc type sites.

 

hight alexa ranks is good if you want to sell the site or links in the site, otherwise it's useless.

 

Alexa Ranks worth for sure but PR does matter when you'r going to have a good sale on it.

 

like the others have said it's probably not worth as much as people want it to - having said that I'm pretty obsessed with checking my Alexa rank because it's the only one of it's kind... Also I want lots of webmaster traffic so as it's more likely that Alexa toolbar owners/users are webmasters then it's more accurate for me...

 

alexa is a good ranking, it do rank your site base on traffic.

 

Alexa Rankings Misconceptions:
1. The rankings does not only depend on toolbar. Before a website will be added to the ranking system, they should add an alexa script on their website that gathers data.
2. Alexa rankings is good, effecient and clear.
3. It will give unexplainable result when the script is only used in one page of the website.

My blog was blocked. Analytics traffic dropped as well as alexa rankings dropped. Which means alexa rankings is almost perfectly correct.

 

alexa is a beauty outside , rough inside

 

Good or not, it does indicate the traffic accurately. My alexa ranking is constantly increasing with increase of my blog site. So, if you are getting good alexa ranking with "real" traffic, then you must be doing something right