Alexa ...pretty interesting?

Thank you so much, Ross. Mucho gracias seigneur. This really interesting and a very useful tool to help you know the mind of those visiting your site or blog.

I love this information. I've never used before until now. I'll make it a very important tool in my disposal. This mana from Ross or heaven, it doesn't matter. Just enjoy it.

Oh... I thought you were talking about Alexa Smith

The keyword terms are wrong ...lol Sorry my AWSTATS is a great deal better and proper ...lol

Alexa Smith on the other hand is Awesome... She is pretty and interesting..

James

ouch...that keywords list could hurt your future business..

Nick, Thanks for your opinion
James, yep..that's why I'm wondering about this alexa thing.thanks
Sashas, that is why it's so interesting why and who controls it or is it really the keywords they search.thanks

Yeah, she is very interesting. Never used her to find what terms people are using to search for my site though. She is not bad looking either

Hi, Ross.

Here is my take on the Alexa data you have found.

As you already know I have studied Alexa's keyword data for a while, and your finding is very similar to what I have found for other websites as yours.

You see, the Alexa data is, as someone already has stated, old data.

Your website probably has some decent traffic coming on a regular basic, but it has a Google PR rank of 1.

Websites with low PR are very often suffering from what we call the Google Dance.

One period you are in the first 10 search result at Google for one keyword phrase, then it drops off the map.

Since Alexa is slow on updating their database you find keywords that gave you some traffic in the past as the current top keyword in Alexa.

If you do the same analyze with a website with high PR, you will probably see that those keywords that Alexa is telling are your main keyword for traffic still is in the top 20 result at Google. The data is still old, but the keyword is more stable in the Google search results.

This is at least my opinion on why you find some odd keyword data at Alexa that you don't find in the search result at Google.

Hope this helps.

- Oddvar.

That's a big help Oddvar. Thanks for your expert opinion

Ross

Alexa is good but I would not rely on it..

I don't know the girl, but c'mon - please, don't you think it might be a little uncomfortable or embarrassing for her to see a marketing thread hijacked and regress into 'lads talk'.

I'd say that courtesy and respect would go a long way - seeing as your comments can be seen by men AND women.

Flame me if you wish, but, this sort of talk does nothing for the forum - in my humble opinion.

Alexa is an okay tool. I use Awstats and Statcounter. I have been experimenting with not using google analytics on my blogs. I personally find statcounter very easy to use compared to analytics, but that is just me. Thanks for the post.

the LOWER the bounce %, the better, right?

For your keywords it looks like people are interested in your products/services but are leery of buying, so they are checking to see if they find negative reviews and comments.

That's both good and bad. It's good that whatever you are selling has them that interested. It's bad that so many people find your credibility questionable.

On another note, like Steven, I haven't checked my site at Alexa in ages. After my site was hacked it fell out of the search engines last year. Once I cleaned up the damage and started marketing it again, it's good to see it's ranked at around 150k. That puts it in the 1% again.

Hey Ross,

Well that Alexa (site) would be both good and bad..
so there's not much point thinking about it..

If you do your products well and your customers
agree with you IMO that would be enough..

As for our very own Alexa Smith..Hey I admire her too..
She seems to emit a different kind of appeal..

I just hope that now that the cat is out..Every Tom, Dick and Harry
won't try to prefix their post with "Alexa".

All the best,

Correct me if i'm wrong but Alexa's stats are based on that toolbar. So how come people are so serious about the stats of alexa ? Alexa is neglecting lot of visitors which are not having toolbars installed,same case with technorati. If you don't paste their code in template/theme how you gonna figure out that they are tracking you ?

How these sites figure out about traffic without using toolbar/js script ?

Well pardon my ignorance...I don't know who is she and I thought many of us here knows alexa.com and I'm not that *&%%$$!# to post it in the discussion. This forum talks more about Internet marketing, make money, conversion, traffic, etc. and I highly respect this forum.

I just wondering why many domaineers are still checking alexa ranking where in fact they just checking it using their toolbar (which I think only work on IE in year 2000, I don't know today). I checked my awstats and I didn't see some of the keywords there. Oddvar was right that he said it could be old searches and yet there are still some people using the toolbar. Perhaps they are still valuable for some even with incomplete information.

I find Google Analytics waaaay more accurate and interesting for my own sites. And based on what Alexa.com says about my sites vs. google analytics, I don't really trust it.

And maybe as a convention we could refer to the business as Alexa.com to save confusion that it is the site not someone called Alexa