Comments on: Does Anyone Trust Alexa Anymore?

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:19:25 +0000

@Benedict
I just realized I was remiss in responding to you. Yes, there’s got to be a better way to rank pages and whatever it turns out to be, it has to be game-proof and reliable.

Happy New Year to you too!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:37:37 +0000

@Sire
Yeah, makes no sense. Blogs I have with fewer visitors have better ranking than this one with more traffic. Go figure.

By: Sire

Sire — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:25:34 +0000

Mine started dropping even though I was getting more visitors. I suppose those visitors don’t have the alexa tool bar. BTW, mine stopped working and I can’t work out why.

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By: Benedict Herold

Benedict Herold — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:47:03 +0000

At least for me, the Alexa rank was directly proportional to stumble hits! That tell me people who has installed StumbleUpon toolbar are more likely to install Alexa toolbar as well! That doesn’t make any sense for a better ranking system and doesn’t tell anything to advertisers. But the fact is there are lot of advertiser who still depends upon these ranking system!

However, I’m not caring about any ranking system from now after Google penalized me for putting a text ad!

Web needs a better ranking system where it doesn’t have place for Alexa and Google!

BTW, hope you had a great Christmas and Happy New year dude!

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By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 04:10:12 +0000

@youranswerhere
Looks like we have others who would agree with you. You’re a first-time commenter here. Thanks for taking the time to do so.

By: yourasnwerhere

yourasnwerhere — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:31:16 +0000

I don’t think that Alexa result are accurate and reliable

By: Opal Tribble

Opal Tribble — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:18:21 +0000

Well everyone else already said it it’s based on the amount of people use the toolbar. Mine was down to 69,000 but it’s back up to 90,000+ the amount of visitors I have has increased by a few 100 but they, like myself, don’t use the Alexa toolbar. I never liked Alexa or Google PR for that matter.
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By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:28:48 +0000

@Aaron
Don’t tease me! How does this darn thing work again?

By: Aaron Cook

Aaron Cook — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:08:49 +0000

You see, Mark, Alexa’s Traffic Rankings work like this…

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