Comments on: Is Alexa Relevant Again?

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:33:16 +0000

True, Patrick. It has its place, but I think that, at this point, Alexa is more relevant to those who might want to try to make money than PR does.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:03:23 +0000

I use to use Google PR to gauge my sites, however, I know think Alexa is a way better gauge. Google needs to revamp Google PR or just scrap it!

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:54:37 +0000

True, about a year or so, but they must have done it kind of quietly since I didn’t hear about it at the time. Then again, I wasn’t following as many blogs then as I am now.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:22:21 +0000

88K for me and liken it. They moved away from the toolbar stats a while ago now.

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By: Sire

Sire — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:38:20 +0000

Cool. I’m surprised more people haven’t made use of it as I’ve found it’s a good way of seeing how your tracking against other members. I think perhaps I should do an update on it.

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:30:23 +0000

Not much I’m afraid, Sire. I’ve got a post coming about my traffic, though, so stay tuned.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:29:44 +0000

Wow, thanks Boris; I check in from time to time on your link building experiment, so I’m glad to be a participant in some fashion.

As for Alexa, it’s always at the bottom of my Firefox browser, so I can’t help noticing it whenever I’m on my sites, or the sites of others. As I said, it’s just another tool for people to see if their sites are at least active in some fashion, and having a good number is never a bad thing.

By: Sire

Sire — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:20:46 +0000

Hi Mitch, I’ve always used Alexa as a means of seeing how well used a site is. I reckon it’s a lot better than PR any day. I have a question about Cool Blog Links. have you ever checked analytics to see how much traffic it is sending you? I noticed that it has sent me a fair bit of traffic and was just wondering how others were fairing.

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By: Boris@ Niche SEO

Boris@ Niche SEO — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:50:23 +0000

I have never paid much attention to Alexa. The only ranking that I care much about are the Google rankings. I just checked and we are 76,765. Which is meaningless for me.

However, where Alexa is useful is its site linking information. I use this all the time to find out where the competition is getting their links from. That is extremely valuable information.

On another note. I am here to do a short review of your blog for inclusion in Day 82 of our 109 Day link building explosion Series.

Thanks,
Boris

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:54:33 +0000

I did try to research it, but Alexa’s not giving it up. The official word from Alexa is they were “moving away from releasing data based solely on users of the downloadable toolbar, to ranking sites based on info from multiple sources.”

By: Boyz II Men

Boyz II Men — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:16:28 +0000

Two questions Mitch.

First, do you know what other sources they’re factoring? I’m curious how else they’ve come up with to figure out how much traffic people have.

Second, what do you mean when you say my site will receive less because it’s static? Despite being static, my site’s traffic levels are still much higher than those of the other sites mentioned. How would the changing front page affect alexa’s measure? And is that good if that influences it? As a measure of traffic, it’s failing if it does that.

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:36:14 +0000

Well now, I’m not really sure what it is, Matt. Actually, you put in my Alexa rank for Caroline, as her site is at 117,756. However, your site is still a static site, and for it to compete against a blog in any fashion you’d have to be doing updates at least 3 times a week, because blogs have commenters and the like. So, there’s more consistency of new activity with a blog. I can look at my newest blog as compared to my business website, and the Alexa ranking for each of them is pretty much equal, and the blog’s only been up since December.

I figure that’s why the big time news sites, such as CNN, Yahoo and MSNBC, all rank very lightly, because the content is always changing.

By: Boyz II Men

Boyz II Men — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:06:26 +0000

Wow, thanks for the info. I had only just recently posted somewhere that Alexa was BS since it depends on people downloading the toolbar, which placed unreasonable bias on sites that focused on tech savvy users or on web developers. Now your post here is making me put my shoe in my mouth.

While I think the numbers show some reasonable accuracy, I’ve still seen some disconnect between traffic and performance. I go to blogs that post monthly updates on their stats and compare their alexa ranking to my own versus their traffic and the numbers don’t match.

For instance,
Monthly Traffic:
imwithjoe.com: 3,037 visits
caroline-middlebrook.com: 24,454 visits
rnbhaven.com (my site!): 61,746 visits

Alexa:
imwithjoe.com: 148,276
caroline-middlebrook.com: 126,654
rnbhaven.com: 164,832

So despite having a minimum of 3X their traffic, my site still lags behind on alexa. I know this is a small amount of anecdotal evidence to make my argument but it still shows some discrepancy.

I’m curious to figure out what would differ between the three sites to cause the different sites to receive better alexa ranks.

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