What is better: Alexa Rank or high PR ?

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Can someone please advise me?
What is better: Alexa Rank or high PR ?
I'm new in this stuff, and i'm getting really confused about it.
I see some sites with low PR (1/2) but with high alexa rank, and i see others with higher PR (4/5) but with low alexa rank.

Can anyone please explain me?
Thank you

 

Higher PR the rest comes.....

 

Good Alexa rank is always better. A site gets good alexa ranking when it has more visitors. More visitors = more income always. A site with good PR is nothing when it does not have visitors.

People want high page rank to rank high in search engines and gain good reputation. Why do people want high rankings? To gain visitors...which a good alexa site already has. A website with under 10K alexa ranking and PR 3 is far more better than a website with PR6 and over 500K alexa ranking.

 

so, when advertising in some website, its always good to check their alexa rank and not only the PR, right ?

I'm asking this because i advertised today in a PR4 website, but later on i checked alexa rank for that website, and it was above 900.000 !!!!

 

The best advice would be to advertise for visitors and not for page rank. Advertising on a high PR site for getting your site a high PR and in turn good traffic sounds much stupid than advertising on a high traffic website and getting visitors directly.

 

I think your post is misleading. A site gets a good alexa rating when users with the Alexa toolbar visit. This is why Alexa is flawed and im quite dumbfounded why people use Alexa as a sites main reflection of traffic.

 

I'm PR addict so PR value in the first place for my ranking list.

 

Alexa for visitors, PR for revenue

 

Alexa rankings can also be manipulated very easily, it is hard to manipulate PR. Alexa ranking does not always mean more visitors, it could mean more proxy bots with an alexa plugin visiting that site. Do not use the alexa system as a way of measuring a website.

 

Definitely higher pr is the best out of the two. Lots of benefits of having high pr, like link sales.

 

I have a site with PR 5 Alexa 500K generates NOTHING
I have a site with PR1 Alexa 10K generates $$$$$$$$$$$

PR has nothing to do with traffic or revenue, it has to do with reference, the site worth, the uniqueness of the info on the site, and how many valuble sites are linking to it. You can get a PR 5, and it could be about "How does a dog licks his butt", get 5 visitors a day, wont make you jack! It will rank high only on GOOGLE for the keywords "How does a dog licks his butt", and thats it. It only means that somewhere someone with a PR 8 or PR 9 linked to your site from one of their pages or your site came up in their article.

PR is over rated, if you have good PR doesnt mean you have great traffic.

Alexa on the other hand is all about traffic, where it is coming from, and how much traffic which converts into great = $$$$$ if you know how to use it.

 

agreed,Alexa Rank is more important than pagerank as I suppose

 

So can be PR, you can have a page about nothing, pay someone with great PR to link to it and WALA! you have a great PR. There are also scripts that can trick bots into giving you a higher PR.

If you have a webhost with a great PR, direct your DNS of your domain to it, yet delete your account from that HOST, the google bot automatically assigns you the same PR as your host. So if you have a HOST with PR8 and your domain is directing to their DNS, delete your site folder from your account it will direct to the main site of your host. The bot will assign your domain whatever.com the same PR as the host and it will last as long as the next update.

 

PR > Alexa

I don't know why Alexa thinks it's the internet authority. Google is the largest website. Alexa only measures traffic from those who have their dumb toolbar installed.. and that's supposed to be everyone? gimme a break.

 

Well how would you find out how huge google is? Because google said so? Hence Alexa comes in.

Dont get me wrong I love google

 

PR imo. Alexa is easy to manipulate, and doesn't mean more traffic will come to your site. Not everybody has their dang toolbar, and I don't know why so many people rely on it

 

Alexa rank shows how much traffic a site gets. while having a high PR doesn't mean much. you just get links from different websites but sometime (most of the times) will get you little traffic.

 

It depends on how high the PR and how low the alexa rank are.

If high PR, (6 or above), you can sell links to make money, so it could be better than site with xx,xxx alexa rank.

But if alexa rank is very good, I think it generates more money steadily.

 

high pr is better . high pr brings you more visitors and more visitors helps you to get high alexa ranks. but the start point must be high pr

 

Agree. PR has nothing to do with traffic I found. I have PR4 page with less traffic than my PR0 page.
Alexa shows how popular your site is which means "traffic"! Traffic means more income. I want more traffic than higher PR.