Alexa Votes Me The 6th Hottest Guy on the Internet

This sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it actually isn't. Currently as I write this, Alexa says that my site (alright, not me) is number six across the internet in terms of traffic over a 5 minute period.

http://www.autocashmethod.com/hot.jpg

Yeah, it's pretty cool, but has also made me think about how true this ranking really is:

- Although I am getting a lot of traffic, in truth, it is far less than you may think.

- Due to being on that page, I am not getting a lot of referral traffic from that page. I would think that the further up you get, the more viral traffic that you do get

- Alexa is strongly skewed towards the internet marketing crowd. This is because it is a lot more likely that Internet Marketers have the tool bar installed than the average person. A couple of my sites receive 10s of thousands of visitors a day, but because of their niche barely hit the top 50k some months.

- Apart from the ego and my wife quite liking being with the 6th hottest guy on the internet is there actually any advantage of having a high alexa ranking?

Anyway, those are my thoughts. What are yours?!

Ben Shaffer