Internet Marketing Tycoon

**divengrabber** · 08-17-2009, 09:02 AM

How trustworthy is Alexa ranking? Is it like PR?

**chrishirst** · 08-17-2009, 11:09 AM

It's nothing like PR.

It's FAR FAR more useless!!!!

**ritchela** · 08-18-2009, 09:07 AM

I don't refer to Alexa rank much because it is confusing. I think if you advertise your website more, you will get high rank. What I look in Alexa is their demographics reporting and what country your traffic comes from. That's very useful.

**chrishirst** · 08-18-2009, 09:44 AM

Nothing about Alexa is useful.

All their data is based on a very tiny percentage (2 or 3%) of Internet users who have the spyware toolbar installed. This is then extrapolated to give a hugely flawed picture of your "traffic".

The major user demographics with the toolbar installed are webmasters who haven't learned any better and marketing "experts" scamming their "clients".

**dhwanit** · 08-20-2009, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by ritchela

I don't refer to Alexa rank much because it is confusing.

Yep... Sometimes it's really confusing. I have seen many site which are getting very low traffic but still have high alexa rank. I don't consider high alexa rank is always good for a website.