Comments on: Alex Rankings Are CRAP

By: jefrey

jefrey — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:20:50 +0000

i like alexa but i like better if my keywords would be in the top 30 of google like when you type pc sales i wanna be listed at the top 30 of google search ^^ this is our site about 1 week old how long does google index keywords anyway pctechph

By: Miamiman

Miamiman — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:14:55 +0000

Well if it’s not Alexa Rankings, then what is it? How do you authoritatively determine who’s got the biggest yacht?

By: Ari Lestariono

Ari Lestariono — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:56:06 +0000

Thanks I like the pointers, what I don’t understand why then Alexa beacme parameters to top dvertizers to evaluate your blog or site?

By: kelly

kelly — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:42:26 +0000

To me they’re just numbers….much like Google Page ranking. What I am more interested to see is if a blog gets page one for certain keywords in Google.

CONGRATS on your book and traffic. I think your book is really good!!

By: georgemarketing

georgemarketing — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:52:04 +0000

welldone

By: Rick Wilson

Rick Wilson — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:00:44 +0000

Remember …

Alexa rankings are NOT taken from ALL visitors to one’s site(s). It’s taking from ONLY those visitors that have the Alexa toolbar installed.

So, I’ve never really understood all the fuss even to this day.

But like you mentioned, Stanley … it’s more of a bragging rights tool and not much more else.

Personally, I have no use for the Alexa rankings.

If it “floats yer boat” then go for it! LOL

Have Fun!

Rick Wilson

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:13:00 +0000

Interesting post. It’s all too easy to get hung up on rankings when what really counts is results

By: stanleytang

stanleytang — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:21:13 +0000

@Robert Agree. definitely was waaaaaayyyy easier back in 2006 to break into the top 100,000 or even top 10,000. all it took was get a few of your friends to install the alexa toolbar and poof you’re at 50,000. do a bit of article marketing or ppc and you’ll be at 10,000. now, with the same amount of traffic, its more like 200,000

but you do have to take into the consideration that these rankings were all at similar times – in fact the first two were on the same day.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:13:49 +0000

Alexa is not your free statcounter. This organisation does not give counts of your hits, it gives you an average of three monthly periods. Even if you are in the top 100k one needs to look at an Alexa ranking as a tendency over time and also include into the formula the great number of websites that appear daily on the Internet. (You may well be having an increasing unique visits and have a decreasing alexa ranking!) Similarly 20 years back to win the Olympic 100m, 10.4 seconds did it, Today you would hardly be qualified for those timings.
One more factor to consider is the timming it takes for Alexa to start considering a new website, similarly to Google they try to avoid the up and gone websites that Google may will consider as spammy Websites rightly or not.

By: stanleytang

stanleytang — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:37:00 +0000

@Chuck thank you. Absolutely, it all really comes down to PROFIT

@Wayne exactly.