hi all,

Just need to hear your thoughts around Alexa ranking and its importance to you as SEO.

For me, Alexa rank is a great intelligence tool for positioning your web site in your niche.

While page rank shows importance, alexa rank shows popularity.
Together, makes more accurate measures for your web site.

Hi
I agree with you there. Alexa is great for statistics to find out where you rank with traffic compared to other sites. It also provides you with information as to where your traffic comes from. You have google webmaster tools and analytical tools which are better for this. However overall alexa rank is important and the lower the number the better

Originally Posted by virgil

alexa rank shows popularity.

It shows popularity within so small (and biased) a sample of the population that it's virtually meaningless.

If I made my own traffic measuring toolbar (gringo toolbar), but gave it only to my techie friends, how representative of the whole (generally non techie) population do you think the numbers would be? Your mum's crochet site, for example, might attract huge traffic numbers, but because my techie friends don't visit, that site would have a rubbish gringo rank.

Alexa might give you some clues if you're comparing similar techie sites, I guess.

I agree with gringo. It is heavily biased to webmaster & seo websites. Any basic computer user would not have the need to install the alexa toolbar. So the sample of users is just not random enough. For tech themed websites it is a fairly accurate way to gauge your website against the competition. For other niches, it is rather worthless.

Pay attention to traffic and search engine rankings instead of arbitrary ranking systems.

No, alexa ranking is NOT important.

Do yall realize that alexa uses spyware? The last time I heard, spyware was bad. So that means at alexa = bad.

If you have a very consumer oriented website Alexa will not be showing you to much ranking love. If you're tech geek heavy maybe. I go by the SERPs more than Alexa.

Alexa rank is important to all

Originally Posted by barsha

Alexa rank is important to all

Given that 4 people in this thread disagree, I immediately see a flaw in your argument.

Yes you are right Alexa rank is not worthy for its stats in a sense that it only shows the stats for people that have visited your site that have Alexa toolbars installed. This statement is only correct if i have understood it correct and that it only shows stats for people that carry the alexa toolbar.

If this is true it is a shame as Alexa is a common place to visit for me and did not realize this till i started to read a bit more about it.

Is there any other site that you could recommend that shows descriptive stats on a daily bases other then the google analytical tool. I mean if i want to find out about a competitors traffic and rank then where will i go to get a unbiased figure

Originally Posted by barsha

Alexa rank is important to all

Wow. What a crap! Important to you? Good luck on that.

I definitely say NO! Just a waste of time for me. Why would I care for that manipulated toolbar?

Alexa is not always that true. My friends site has less than 20 unique a day, while my site has 100 unique a day and the weird thing is, that 20 unique a day has a better ranking than my site. For me, I'll just focus on my traffic.

Alexa is important for webmasters. One of the basis of analysis if the website is working well in terms of traffic and visitors.

^there was a time where Alexa ranking was of great deal to many, but nowadays, same as most people, I barely give time on looking on how my sites are with Alexa...

Its about as important and as useful as this thread.

It's not important to me yet...I am continuing to focus on building traffic to my sites. Most of them are to young to have any significant ranking.

So, in answer to your question, ALexa is not important to me at this point in the game.

for now. i'm not focusing on it. I'll be getting in there when I have a chance.

yes. alexa rankings is not so important

For me Alexa is not that important. What ever numbers it shows it doesn't matter because my ranking on three major SE is more important.

Alexa is not that important. It is not reliable as I read somewhere that it only counts the visitor with alexa toolbar.

Originally Posted by jamilla

Alexa is not that important. It is not reliable as I read somewhere that it only counts the visitor with alexa toolbar.

Perhaps you read it in this thread, as it is written in this thread. Then again, perhaps not. Perhaps you haven't actually read through the thread at all.