Comments on: Alexa vs. reality

By: Private Servers

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By: sam sanders

sam sanders — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:37:55 +0000

There’s many posts and conversations online about how dangerous it is to use Alexa as one end-all final number of a website’s popularity. But that always raises the question, what’s the alternative? For me, I use my own stat tracking, and only use Alexa to look at how popular *other* sites are. If you own your own domain, there are much better ways to track your own traffic than Alexa.

By: motordude

motordude — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:14:11 +0000

I still don’t get why companies use it (eg. text-link-ads etc) when it’s apparently so easy to manipulate etc?

By: Tobsy

Tobsy — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:05:41 +0000

Thank you

By: Terence Chang

Terence Chang — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:49:26 +0000

yes. It’s very easy to manipulate the Alexa Traffic Ranking. I have done so to increase my page ranking from 5.5M to 1.1M i few weeks.

I have some tricks that you can find on my site and related posts.

I don’t do Advertisement now, but who know I will do that later?

Great analysis. Good blog!

By: Matt Keegan

Matt Keegan — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:36:44 +0000

Isn’t it amazing the credence given to Alexa? You can game their number and still have a relatively low traffic site. However, when it comes to advertisers what do they seem to use when determining traffic? Alexa. Go figure.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:14:41 +0000

I am disabling Alexa rakings now on my SearchStatus toolbar. I didn’t realize Alexa was gathering information from it. I had heard that it didn’t before- only through the official toolbar.

By: Bobby Revell

Bobby Revell — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:06:44 +0000

Thanks, very informative. I have been using firefox since it started and only had one alternative theme (it was a woodgrain theme). I’ll check into this. Thanks for the great blog:)

By: James

James — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:49:15 +0000

Although inaccurate, I still use it to give me a rough estimate of the traffic my website gets

And it is very true that if you want to monetize you blog with marketing companies, you need a good Alexa ranking.