What’s the difference between PR and Alexa Rank?

I am always confused with these two’s Alexa Rank and Page rank, I see some of the directories has better Alexa Rank but Low PR or even at 0. So can you advice me which is better, High Alexa Rank directories or High PR directories? for making good backlinks.

Please do advice me on this…

 

Alexa rank is representing the website popularity and traffic rank, pagerank represents your website score in googles eyes for your content, links etc. When buying links alexa rank doesnt make a big difference, also the higher it is the less visitors website receives.

 

Alexa seems to take into account the increase or decrease in your traffic stats to base your website's rank while google's PR relies mainly on how well your site is networked with other sites in your niche.....simply put, the number of back links your site is able to generate from well ranked similar niche sites.

Regards,

RightMan

 

I will tell one similarity - "both are useless"

 

You can never say that both are useless, as both the companies are well established in the online world and they virtually rule to popularity of the websites or blogs.

If you are a webmaster seriously working on improving your traffic and there by your earnings, then you would have definitely said that they both are required.

 

Page Rank
-- supposed to be a measure of the quality of the page, based mainly on its backlinks. However, it includes also some factors which have nothing to do with page quality.
-- applied to page (not site)
-- scale : from 0 to 10 - the higher it is, the better it is
-- updated from time to time by google, also with a time lag
-- the released PR is not the real PR used by google algorithm

Alexa Rank
-- supposed to be a measure of the traffic of the site (amount of visitors and page views)
-- applied to site, incl. subdomains and subdirectories
-- the lower rank is, the better it is. Google and yahoo are the most visited sites so that they rank 1 and 2 . A site ranking for instance 5300000 is probably a new site with very limited traffic
-- updated daily (at least for high traffic sites) by Alexa
-- has a strong bias in favour of sites in English language and webmaster-related sites. Low traffic sites may be manipulated by webmaster (a very low traffic site with a rank of for instance 5000000 can be boosted for instance to 2000000 or better).
Look at the users' countries : A traffic which comes to an abnormally extent from one country may have been manipulated.

 

PR is the measurement of how many backlinks your website have, while alexa rank is the measurement of incoming traffics your website receives.

 

So :
Pagerank start at----->0
Alexa start at--------->10

 

Actually i don't much care about PR or alexa, I'm just care about quality traffic

 

Basically getting top ranking SERP's for main keywords of your site is more beneficial....

 

Both are useless, concentrate on targeted users for your site ....

 

It will be useful if you want to sell your site.. But, Alexa Rank doesn't recognize if the traffics are quality one (stay away from buying traffic because you don't know where is the traffics came from).. You can gain higher PR by blog commenting on higher PR blog/sites (higher value of PR on one way linking strategies)..

 

Alexa is a popular site that keeps track of site access statistics and their rankings.
Page Rank is based on many factors like back links, in links, bounce rate,etc. Only Google knows the exact algorithm for PR.

But Alexa Rank is based on the traffic we are getting. The website with good traffic will get good alexa rank ir-respctive of other factors

 

Alexa ranking cant be ignored now as they have now introduced several search engine oriented features.