Do you care about Alexa ranking ..?

by rohnsmith

Posted: 13 years ago 33 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hi I do not care about ALexa ranking .. I just consider Google ranking rather than alexa. what is your opinion in this..

#alexa #care #ranking

Silentcloud 13 years ago

It's not a bad thing for gauging the amount of visitors a website receives. I usually like it for comparing websites, the more visitors you receive, the better ranking you get with Alexa.
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powerspike 13 years ago

The one thing you need to know about alexa ranking, is that it mainly comes from toolbars, and people checking sites (ie alexa ranking plugins). I have a webmaster website getting around 2k visitors a month which outranks a clients website (around 2mil unique's a month - real estate), and the alexa ranks are within 10% of each other.

As long as your aware of this, you can have a aprox guess at traffic. But wouldn't count on it unless your've seen hard stats (like google analytics or awstats etc)
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BXPS 13 years ago

Actually i do care about alexa.
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- chrisscott 13 years ago
  
  I also don't care much about Alexa but still I visit and see the ranking of sites time to time.
  
  Alexa may be not fully accurate but at least you get an idea that how the site is moving from months.
  
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  scott g 13 years ago
  
  My Alexa rank for my new site is 12,208,728 so no!!
  
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dave147 13 years ago

My new site was ranked at 21,000,000+ and now it's down to 800,000...looks a bit better but not too worried about Alexa ranking
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christopher jon 13 years ago

I just consider Google ranking rather than alexa.

They are apples and oranges. Alexa ranks sites by traffic. Google ranks sites according to content and value (I'm using value loosely here).

And no, Alexa stats aren't very reliable or accurate. They can be useful to gauge how popular a site is but that's about it.
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HorseStall 13 years ago

Alexa is irrelevant and can be manipulated. IMO Alexa ranking does not matter.
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tpw 13 years ago

Alexa is seriously skewed.

The only people who use the Alexa toolbar, which is how those numbers are generated, are newbie Internet Marketers.

I used to use Alexa toolbar myself. I was hovering at high 20 thousands and low 30 thousands.

I was suffering some memory issues, so I turned off all my tool bars when browsing.

When I got my computer fixed again, I went and looked at Alexa... My site had dropped to the low 120's....

This means that my own activity on my site was skewing the numbers by nearly 90k positions.

I realized that those numbers are so skewed that I stopped using it altogether...

I am hovering in the low 100k now...

If I went back to using it, I am sure I could jump to the teens...

But outside of ego, I see no value in it...

And I have no interest in fooling my numbers to make myself feel better...

The only numbers I honestly care about is actual traffic and actual dollars earned... All other are pointless...
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champstar 13 years ago

I prefer google, elexa comes with big units
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jennifersmith006 13 years ago

I always prefer Page rank and have never given any importance to alexa...
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Paul Gordelo 13 years ago

every rank matters whether it is google page rank or alexa rank. if you have high alexa rank it means you have more traffic to your website.
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SGdarling 13 years ago

I check my alexa ranking regularly. you cannot compare alexa and googel ranking as it shows different things. Alexa shows the amount of your traffic and google - site quality.
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darshan1994 13 years ago

Alexa ranking that is over 2million can easily be faked with sending fake traffic from ptc sites etc. However alexa under the 2million mark is hard to achieve so believeable. For this reason I would only consider alexa in the top sites as the other is mostly faked. Even though it might have decent alexa you might need to check google ranking etc to confirm that its not brutally attacked by ptc/cheap traffic.
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xenergy 13 years ago

Alexa can be used as indicator for website traffic. But somehow its not always accurate. I have one website with hundreds of unique visitors per day, but still in 2million rank range. People can also use bot to generate fake visitors to get good alexa ranks.
So to answer your questions: Yes, I do care! But its not 100% accurate.
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taylormarek 13 years ago

I actually care alot about the Alexa ranking on my site. I know it may be biased and not correct at times, but it helps me to gauge popularity among the internet audience as opposed to the Google Ranking which only lists a number between 1-10.
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arnoldsmithh 13 years ago

Yes i care about alexa ranking alot. It plays an important role in SEO.
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Rozanne 13 years ago

I adored the services of Alexa and Google Page rank to analyse website traffic. However I am not dependent on both, because I always prefer Awstats, which is one of the statistic tools available on cPanel control panel.
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- Pradeep Bhagwat 13 years ago
  
  I think if world care about Alexa ranking then why not we should care? Alexa ranking is not for our satisfaction. It reflects traffic to your website. Alexa is known for it's ranking system, that is why we should care of it. If you want to sell your website buyer get impressed by your Alexa ranking. This is the point.
  
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Brendon Zahrndt 13 years ago

When I have made the decision to sell one of my sites that I am no longer interested in maintaining, Alexa ranking matters to me. This is especially if I am selling that site on Flippa. Otherwise I don't make it a focus.
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invitetheweb 13 years ago

It depends. Are you interested in ranking for traffic or interested in ranking for reliable useful content? Sometimes both come in handy but I rarely check Alexa anymore. It just seems so 5 years ago.
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nerokon 13 years ago

i use alexa toolbar so that my sites get some rankings whenever i visit my sites.
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- PatriciaJ 13 years ago
  
  No I don't, It's misleading.
  
  One of my sites hit 70,000, I changed the script to wordpress and it went down to over 200,000. At the same time the traffic more than doubled. The switch was less internet marketers with the Alexa toolbar and more people outside IM searching for information which was exactly what I wanted. Now I look at traffic not Alexa.
  
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Caleb Spilchen 13 years ago

Alexa.com Ranking? Sorta - I look at it as a
bar, to see demographics, it's like quantcast
for me.

Alexa Smith Ranking? Of Course!

Caleb
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Tsnyder 13 years ago

On the list of things I care about regarding success with
an online marketing campaign Alexa would rank somewhere
around 3,457,751... if my list were that long...

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realtexas Banned 13 years ago

Not really everyone is already use to Google so why worry or care about the new one who might be on Bord!
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Sheryl Polomka 13 years ago

That is one stat I don't check, I couldn't tell you the last time I checked my Alexa rating. I don't really care to be honest, it's just another stat to check to waste time. Occasionally I will go in and check, but probably only about once a year!
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contentment1st 13 years ago

As an offline marketer, I use Alexa as a way to point out ranking comparisons to potential clients. Good tool for that purpose.
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- JamieSEO 13 years ago
  
  Alexa ranking is definitely not a priority for me
  
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richgrad 13 years ago

At the end of the day, I care more about how much my websites are generating than how well they rank in alexa...
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JHC81 13 years ago

I don't look at Alexa rating, I look at Google ranking
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jasonmorgan 13 years ago

Alexa Smith Ranking? Of Course!

Caleb, Get out of my head!

Jumping on the 'don't care' bandwagon. It's a useful tool for other purposes but the ranking is useless unless you are a domain flipper.
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RegalWeb 13 years ago

Alexa ranking is based on a toolbar installed on web browsers. What we should take int consideration is that most who installs Alexa are "technical" people like IM, web developers and the such. These people have the purchasing power and the needs of buying an IM product. Alexa may have a slight impact but it is not the sole reference of how a site should be ranked and viewed.
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