Do you believe alexa ranking...

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  1. adithya

    adithya Regular Member

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    Well the title says it all....

    I have seen many websites owner proudly telling their low alexa ranking....so what do you people say....
    Does Alexa ranking reflects the traffic and popularity of the site..... :?:

    Is Alexa ranking is reliable....? :?:
     
  2. nightlinker

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    well maybe since a lot people using it... but i never use it...
     
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    Can I know what is alexa ranking?. What is it exactly . How does it will helpful to us.
     
  4. adithya

    adithya Regular Member

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    ^^
    to know more about it visit http://www.alexa.com/site/help/

    One a simple sentence->it gives a rough sketch on the popularity and traffic of the site....

    How does it will helpful to us.-->It is next to the PR in estimating the site...
     
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    i think alexaranking is pretty accurate !! This is my personal opinion .
     
  6. adithya

    adithya Regular Member

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    The main drawback of Alexa ranking is that it is based solely on the data gathered from alexa toolbar in the browser..
    But i think the PR is more accurate than the Alexa ranking....
     
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    quite frankly, i find it rather garbage to have to worry about alexa plus google...google is a PR10, Alexa is 7...so im more focused on google as this is the first thing as far as search engine goes since i am more familiar with it.
    alexa is just another want to be google, but with a way to make people feel crappier rather than better since they have to work 2 times harder than just trying to get their google PR up.

    :D
     
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    ^^Google is PR10 because PR is alloted from google itself.... :D
    And yes you are right in stating that Alexa is a crap... ;)
     
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    if you did a search on Alexa for some of the sites that you like, unless it was on the top 100,000 then you wouldn't really be able to see the site since they base it on a whole lot of stupid things...our sites are not the greatest on google, but at least they are searchable with google and will be found...

    thanks for agreeing with me adithya...its good to know that someone else feels the same way...

    :D
     
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    alexa gives like number of visitors per day for any given site ... I think this tool is pretty awesome ...
     
  11. adithya

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    But this is soley based on the data collected from Alexa toolbar...If a visitor has no Alexa toolbar in his Browser then he is neglected :(
     
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    yeah but that adds to the problem with trying to get your PR update when you have to work on more than one thing...that is why we don't care about alexa and what it stands for...lol

    :D
     
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    so we its need to have the browser to have alexa toolbar... hmm i dint knew that.... i thought they will automatically read the sites traffic.... now i know... alexa is just making some useless tool for earning money...
     
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    I'll go with his comment. I prefer Google ranking rather than Alexa.
     
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    google raking is the best :D alexa ranking is the worst
     
  16. adithya

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    Yup it's true...many people are unaware of this fact and think that it is best when comes to estimate the site's value..:(
     
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    man don't think theat PR is the best..
    For example http://www.something.com
    It is PR 4 or PR 5....:)
    You can't estimate the site value by just PR or alexa..:-)
     
  18. spinky.jones

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    I think this tool is not useless for other guys out there using alexa..
     
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    you may be right but for many people, Google's PR really matter since nowadays, Google is the most dominant search engine in the world. :D
     

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