epro_solutions
Joined: Mar 31, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Apr-01 05:03
Hello all,
I have been told by some felow seo buddies that Alexa.com is a good search engine to be listed on for PR reasons, and the rank it gives you is important as well. They have not told me why it is important, and I fear that they arr just pulling my leg on this one
Can somebody tell me what is Alexa.com and what is it's importance next the other major search engines?
Thanks
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quality-ins
Joined: Jan 18, 2001
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Posted: 2005-Apr-12 12:31
IMO Alexa is a good guide to see to a site is doing traffic wise.
From my experience, they don't seem to be as accurate as they were before.
My sites have the same or more traffic than they did a few years ago when I got a great alexa ranking. I'm getting a lower alexa traffic ranking these days. I'm just wondering if less people have the alexa toolbar on their browsers.
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andyb0122
Joined: Apr 18, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Apr-18 19:39
You actually do not need the toolbar to have Alexa compile data ebout your traffic rank. The way they calculate it is based on a lot of different averages from different time periods. Hence its a reversed exponential curv for your rank progress vs time
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quality-ins
Joined: Jan 18, 2001
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Posted: 2005-Apr-18 20:34
I understand that. Alexa compiles data on all sites whether or not their owner has the toolbar.
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isaiahhull
Joined: Apr 19, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Apr-20 03:33
Alexa rankings are definitely skewed toward specific demographics, since they use the toolbar to collect traffic information on websites.
For instance, if you sell internet marketing products, your site will probably have a disproportionately-high Alexa ranking, since people who visit your site (internet marketers) are much more likely to use the Alexa toolbar than your average internet browser/shopper.
However, if you are using Alexa to compare your traffic levels with other competing sites, it is a pretty accurate measurement.
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quality-ins
Joined: Jan 18, 2001
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Posted: 2005-Apr-20 04:14
That's what i'm thinking. My marketing site does much better alexa wise than my life insurance leads site where the prospects are not website marketing people.
I agree with you.
It would be nice to know some hard figures on this though.
Thanks,
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rossendryv
Joined: Eons Ago
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Posted: 2005-May-15 20:30
There is a high percentage of Asian countries, mainly South Korea with users of the Alexa toolbar which effects the numbers
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linknz
Joined: May 22, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Jun-13 04:52
Well I find alexa.com is not very accurate.
My search engine gets around 750,000 visits a month according to them and the stats they have generated for my website, when we are being searched around 70,000 times a day presently.
From what I understand they work not on actual visitors but on the relationships between visitors and I think they only measure people who have their toolbar from what I understand about it.
It is in the normal sense not a search engine as search engines go.
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net_finder
Joined: Nov 20, 2004
# Posts: 34
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Posted: 2005-Jun-28 03:56
I do think alexa.com is important to your site. Anyone who links to you and has big traffic can't hurt. One problem with alexa is its easy to inflate your standings. I have been able to do it in a very short time. Just purchase 10 million page hits from a well ranked autosurf company and you will see your ranking go up, even though no real visitors ever saw your page. as soon as the traffic stops, your numbers will tank. I have been able to move from a 4.5 million ranking to 100K rank. Cost me only $10. I am now back to 4 mill. At least my traffic is real.
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quality-ins
Joined: Jan 18, 2001
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Posted: 2005-Jun-28 04:31
I'm not saying that Alexa is the end all.
I use it as a quick review when I look at sites.
If a site has been consistently at a traffic rank of 9000 over a two year period, that says something different than some body who artificially boosts their rank to 9000 over a few week period.
I use it as a quick measure all the time.
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dave005
Joined: Sep 06, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Sep-06 19:30
alexa tool bar is spyware it only gets most of its data from the tool bar so if you dont use it it's not getting data from the non user
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RenKen
Joined: Apr 01, 1999
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Posted: 2005-Sep-17 00:22
I use Alexa as one part of the analytics that I provide to site owners to show that their site is improving. It may not be completely accurate (only those people with the toolbar installed are going to be counted), however, it is one tool to be able to measure a general trend that your site is either becoming more visible or becoming less visible.
However, the more accurate statistics would be your site page views and site visitors.
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2005-Sep-17 00:49
Currently, a Google site:alexa.com search looks like a site that is heading for a ban...
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j7776
Joined: Sep 17, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Sep-17 13:30
please keep in mind and know that all engines and sites may gather information to improve and continue delivering positive results and meet the demands of avid users. And if this consider spyware we are all guilty. We rely on users to feed data,search trends and many substantial information for continuous success for online merchants.
This is give-give in the most ethical manner.
Yes there is harmful spyware programs but I personally would not just throw that term around at any company.
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quality-ins
Joined: Jan 18, 2001
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Posted: 2005-Sep-17 14:57
I agree with Renken, alexa is another good safe way to show clients what their traffic is doing.
The interesting thing is, alexa is mostly going to be used by webmasters. I don't really see it marketed that much.
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j7776
Joined: Sep 17, 2005
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Posted: 2005-Sep-17 17:35
quality-ins I would agree. When speaking with family members who have real estate websites and other online advertisers their not even aware of Alexa, I refer them to Alexa and advise them to spend time and read up on Alexa and I provide them with some additionsl information.Alexa is helpful but to s certain point.
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RenKen
Joined: Apr 01, 1999
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Posted: 2005-Sep-18 02:22
It's interesting to note that Google is rated #3 by Alexa, while Yahoo is rated #1. Is it really true that Yahoo gets more traffic than Google? And when you compare the two using the Alexa traffic tool - it appears that Yahoo is getting quite a bit more traffic than Google. Could this be right?
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noon_an_night
Joined: Apr 06, 2005
# Posts: 51
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Posted: 2005-Sep-18 04:16
Yahoo and MSN get a lot of their traffic from their free email service. For online shopping and classifieds Yahoo (11.25%) has a slightly higher market than Google (10.70%) but overall search results are as follows...
1 Google: www.google.com market share 39.34% Avg time 12:10
2 Yahoo: www.yahoo.com market share 18.16% Avg time 10:59
3 MSN: www.msn.com market share 15.32% Avg time 06:31
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