Comments on: Alexa And Its Alternatives

By: kevin@Cheapest dsl

kevin@Cheapest dsl — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:51:20 +0000

I guess it makes since when site has that many visitors the stats would have to get better. I know people sold things to make sites rank high on alexa but never tried one or wanted to.

I wonder how much alexa really brings in as a percent of sales on any site on the internet.

By: chloe@Petite Star

chloe@Petite Star — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:30:53 +0000

Alexa is too inaccurate for it to be useful – Only stats worth usin in my opinion is the free google analytics. Comprehensive, free, and detailed, only downside is google has all your info !

By: MJ@Search Engine Optimization

MJ@Search Engine Optimization — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:47:04 +0000

Personally I don’t believe Alexa is all that useful. I only judge it as a good tool in terms of trying to sell private advertising but other than that I don’t see it’s benefit.

MJs last blog post – Search engine rankings and pagerank

By: Sid@Software Reviews

Sid@Software Reviews — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:20:42 +0000

Chloe they collect data from web browser plugins and toolbars. The problem is that their guesstimates based on those sources tend to be unreliable.

Sids last blog post – Content internet filter software – censorware

By: Chloe@Travel Systems

Chloe@Travel Systems — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:18:18 +0000

I’ve never trusted Alexa because I just dont understand how it works.
How does a 3rd party site / company track my hits ?
Surely they can make guestimations based on what i rank for but can’t track my hits so where’s its getting its numbers from !

By: admin

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:34:18 +0000

Hi Diana,
Never been to WA state before. Arizona is about as far west as I’ve ever lived.
My father told me a story once that many years back (maybe a
century ago?) the “Kiefer” clan had a dispute & half of them disassociated themselves with the others and changed the spelling in “Kiefer” from “ie” to “ei”, thus the spelling in my name.

It’s still pronounced the same despite the reverse in characters. The other “ei” “Keifers” (I’m an “ei” Keifer) moved to somewhere in southern or southeastern Pennsylvania. I’ve never followed up on any other Keifers from PA, but I’ve always been mildly curious, because the “ei” spelling in Keifer is not very common.

Someday I may trace my family tree & see if that story is really true or not.
If there’s any “Keifers” in PA (or probably anywhere), there’s a good chance that we’d be related.

By: Diana Gail Kiefer

Diana Gail Kiefer — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:54:17 +0000

please advise if you or your family have ever lived in Everett, WA

thank you

By: Steven Lohrenz

Steven Lohrenz — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:55:23 +0000

Alexa Alternative…

If you've been hanging around here for a while you know that I haven't been impressed with Alexa's ranking system. It doesn't seem to be a true indicator of the traffic that you are actually receiving to the site and it's hard …

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By: Sam Carrara

Sam Carrara — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:35:22 +0000

One of the benefits of a better Alexa ranking is if you use Adbrite to monitize your site. The better the ranking, the more you make.

Yes it still can be gamed, but so can many other tools.

Sam