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Old 04-17-2008, 01:28 AM Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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Dear Members have you noticed the ranking of your website in alexa. I think alexa also includes the counting of visitors who not using alexa toolbar in the algorithm.
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Old 04-17-2008, 02:20 AM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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Yeah, check this out:

http://www.alexa.com/site/company/announcement

Interesting.
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Old 04-17-2008, 04:39 AM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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does alexa ranking still matters?I think not? My site drop from 80k to 100+ ranking!
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Old 04-17-2008, 08:44 AM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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Y'know whats funny @ http://www.alexa.com/site/company/announcement

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My site's ranking has changed. Was it wrong before?
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Your ranking wasn't wrong before, but it was different. Alexa toolbar users' interests and surfing habits could differ from those of the general population in a number of ways, and we described some of those possible differences on our website. While the vast majority of sites' rankings were unaffected by such differences, we've worked hard on our new ranking system to adjust for situations in which they could matter.
In other words "Yes they were wrong before and always have been"

2+2=5 now - its not wrong... just different
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Old 04-17-2008, 11:41 AM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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lol, I guess mine is a little better now.

about 70% of my visitors use firefox.

SInce only about 23% use IE, and those are mostly developers, I doubt many people with the toolbar visit.
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Old 04-17-2008, 04:09 PM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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Alexa Sucks and now it's official

I made some changes to Alexa's Q and A and posted here
Read this: http://www.middlefingeraward.com/vie...525a724c9112a4




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Old 04-17-2008, 04:13 PM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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alexa has a new tougher ranking system yes its true
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Old 04-17-2008, 04:24 PM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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no more toolbar for alexa they were too dependant on it, time to move on to something better.

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Old 04-17-2008, 05:02 PM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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Hi ... as I read Alexa changes, the claim was still using tool bar, but developed more precise (sic) way to extrapolate to non-tool bar users. Maybe not.

An anecdote about the worth of Alexa. My site hustles ideas and words, not products or services. It relies on content and writers. Convincing writers, good or known, to come aboard isn't easy. They look at PR and Alexa. If both are ok, in their view, they submit for posting; if not, they don't.

I had a moderately prominent writer lined up, a few months ago, to make regular postings. She's often on television and the tie-in was a dream come true. She agreed because of a PR4 and an Alexa of about 160,000. Before her first submission, the site Alexa dropped to about 260,000; she hesitated, as I explained it was sampling error. Then Alexa dropped to 350,000 and she vanished; her agent said she didn't want to sully her reputation, posting on a poorly rated site.

In the view, of non-webmaster types, Alexa means something as does PR.

A sad, but true, tale.

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Old 04-17-2008, 05:43 PM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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I never even check my alexa rank, as its pretty pointless really, so i dunno why there is so much interest in this subject !

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Old 04-17-2008, 06:46 PM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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Doc I was sorry to read your story - Chris Hirst wrote something recently about the amount of misinformation on the web. I still cannot believe that Alexa can put out a statement like the one below. If my 8th grade son wrote this statement I would ground him for a week.

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Your ranking wasn't wrong before, but it was different


If it wasn't wrong before, and it's different now, then it must be wrong now!

TRUE AND FALSE = FALSE
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Old 04-17-2008, 07:09 PM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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Many people care about Google PageRank only
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Old 04-17-2008, 07:39 PM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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Doc I was sorry to read your story - Chris Hirst wrote something recently about the amount of misinformation on the web. I still cannot believe that Alexa can put out a statement like the one below. If my 8th grade son wrote this statement I would ground him for a week.



If it wasn't wrong before, and it's different now, then it must be wrong now!

TRUE AND FALSE = FALSE
You should read my parody article (link above) and have a laugh or two


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Old 04-18-2008, 12:52 AM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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Many people care about Google PageRank only
So? Likewise, many people care about Alexa rank only...
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Old 04-18-2008, 01:46 AM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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alexa ranking means nothing to me. There are so many buy traffic programs these days, and alexa ranking can easily be fooled by these.
Instead I prefer only google page rank, the geniene one.
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Old 04-18-2008, 02:40 AM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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Instead I prefer only google page rank, the geniene one.
can you repeat that please but this time in laud tone of voice
preferably in all caps, bold and red color font


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Old 04-18-2008, 05:28 AM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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Instead I prefer only google page rank, the geniene one.
Yeah, because pagerank is neither a hoax or a myth of course

The whole Alexa anouncement posted on their site is made up of eufemisms, that actually say their whole system is crap. Alexa probably realised their rankings were not taken seriously anymore and came up with a "better more reliable ranking system" aka trying to save their sorry a**. They don't even say what other sources they are pulling their data from.

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Old 04-18-2008, 09:32 AM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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I noticed some changes. It appears that a number of webmaster type of places lost
some positions while 'regular' sites like Netflix moved up.
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Old 04-19-2008, 08:38 PM Re: Huge Change in Alexa Ranking
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I cannot see why people are so bothered about alexa rank really. I know it's a nice benchmark site but I would never take the results seriously.
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