Comments on: Why Alexa Ranking is Useless

By: Frank J

Frank J — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:34:19 +0000

Hicham,

All that counts are the 3 types of traffic I shared – Direct, Referral and Search.

By: Hicham

Hicham — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:39:19 +0000

Frank, I have stopped worring about Alexa, PageRank, No. of Comments and all those stuff since I do believe that spending time in having you “Content” is more useful than this although I respect other opnions, of course.

Btw, I want to let you know that few days ago I linked to your “Fighting Comment Spam” post in my post entitled “Blog Milestone: Comments” since it’s good resource and relevant to my post!

By: Frank J

Frank J — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:19:24 +0000

Susy,

That’s inconsistent and your rank should be much better as your site is averaging 250 visits per day.

By: Susie

Susie — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:44:56 +0000

461,332 according to alexa and average visitors are 250

By: estherrosie

estherrosie — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:08:24 +0000

alexa is giving me a hard time and shows completely incorrect values.

our site started off relatively well and then all of sudden shot down the rankings.

alexa now says that 74% of my users are in Korea which is totally untrue and the ranking bears no relation on my traffic figures which are small but growing.

I even wrote to them to try and find out why as, like many others, I run this site for someone and they use the Alexa ranking as one of the indicators of how the site is doing.

By: Frank J

Frank J — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:44:16 +0000

Rob,

Thanks for the backing and you’re right, it’s a rough gauge at best.

By: Frank J

Frank J — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:42:36 +0000

Jonathan,

Thanks for the confirmation of what I published. Alexa is useless and should not be used as a benchmark.

By: Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills

Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:13:51 +0000

A few months ago my Alexa ranking was about 70K. Since then, my traffic has gone up while my Alexa ranking has slid to 106K. I’m not the only one, I’ve seen this trend happening to several others.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:12:49 +0000

For sure, Alexa is way out and should only be used as a very rough guide. My own blog had a good traffic ranking but was due to all the comment spammers hitting it looking for easy links.

Like you say, google analytics and other stat programs should be utilized in order to gauge more accurate numbers.

By: Frank J

Frank J — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:05:44 +0000

Mathdelane,

Alexa had gone through a Algorithm change last year to improve accuracy and ranking, but it proved to be a bust at best.