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Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
Old 03-17-2011, 06:24 PM Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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Old 03-17-2011, 07:15 PM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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Alexa rank is useless. No real professional would consider it with any value or worth.
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Old 03-19-2011, 04:09 PM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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I think you're replying to automated spam
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Old 03-20-2011, 03:43 AM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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Old 03-20-2011, 06:36 AM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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Alexa Rank is a decent indicator of a site’s popularity against other websites in the internet but cannot rely on it since it is not an established indicator of how well a site is regarded in Google.
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Old 03-20-2011, 07:52 AM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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Alexa Rank is a decent indicator of a site’s popularity against other websites in the internet but cannot rely on it since it is not an established indicator of how well a site is regarded in Google.
Wrong. It is not decent, since it is easily manipulated.

All you have to do to increase your Alexa rank is open 50 tabs to your site, and set them to reload every 1 second.
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Old 03-21-2011, 08:32 AM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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One thing to think about with Alexa is A LOT of advertisers use it for determining if a site is worth investing on. If you have a poor Alexa rating those advertisers won't pay the big $$$. If you're not running ads on your site then Alexa rating is useless.
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Old 03-21-2011, 08:49 AM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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It shows you traffic rank by yahoo.
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Old 03-24-2011, 04:59 AM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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Alexa rank is useless. No real professional would consider it with any value or worth.
Can you explain more of this? How can you prove such thing?
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Old 03-24-2011, 07:33 AM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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As according to me, i think i rarely use alexa...as i don't know much about that, came to know through this forum, thanks for the update. I am about to dig more into this now.
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Old 03-24-2011, 09:07 PM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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Alexa Ranking is basically like Page rank that only measures things at your site.
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Old 03-27-2011, 09:32 AM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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Alexa Ranking is basically like Page rank that only measures things at your site.
NO it DOESN'T.

Do YOU allow alexa access to your site logs?

The Alexa figures comes from the minuscule number of Alexa toolbar users who visit your pages and then those numbers are extrapolated (guesstimated) to all Internet users, and as Alexa toolbar users account for less than five percent of ALL Internet users this give the figure a greater than NINETYFIVE percent margin of error.

You don't need to be a statistical analyst to know that those numbers are not to be trusted.

It's a bit like asking the entire population of Belgium if they watch Baseball, then deciding it is not popular enough to be televised in the good ole' US of A.
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Old 05-16-2011, 01:31 PM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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I use to work for a media intelligence company that had us numbers from Alexa. We had our own set of media values and someone worked out a formula for us that involved those numbers. For some reason they seemed to think that they made them more accurate, but I never understood how they though that way. I can see where it might provide some assistance, but no where near enough to make any long term decisions based solely off the numbers they provide.
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Old 07-21-2011, 04:02 AM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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alexa rank is sometimes helpful as you can measure your traffic and so can people!!
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Old 07-21-2011, 05:46 AM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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alexa rank is sometimes helpful as you can measure your traffic and so can people!!
Those numbers can be manipulated an are not trustworthy.....
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Old 07-23-2011, 06:00 PM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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how does alexarank reflects only from users who have alexa toolbar?

i see that the ranks shown by alexa are fair for most of the sites i viewed so there must be another measure they use to figure out your traffic.
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Old 07-24-2011, 12:56 PM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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how does alexarank reflects only from users who have alexa toolbar?

i see that the ranks shown by alexa are fair for most of the sites i viewed so there must be another measure they use to figure out your traffic.

Read post #12......
Covers it very well......
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Old 12-03-2011, 10:58 AM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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So what you are saying is:
If you want to defraud someone that is one method......
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Old 05-03-2012, 12:52 PM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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It helps Webmasters and advertisers see the true marketing potential of your Web site. The better your Alexa rank, the higher they will be willing to bid to buy advertising space on your Web site.
Personal pages or blogs are taken into consideration and ranked in the same manner as regular Web sites.
Alexa ranking offers you information about your Web site, it is a good tool to have in view of search engine optimization.
To your first point - some of the ignorant ones, eprhaps.

To your last point - that's a completely illogical comment. How? Why? When?
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Old 05-04-2012, 07:20 AM Re: Any method to use Alexa Ranking?
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I'd say improve the quality and quantity of your backlinks to get ranked higher in alexa.
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