i hear every webmaster is talking about alexa, is it useful?
By sacrg793
@sacrg793 (429)
China
April 10, 2007 3:38am CST
many websites take alexa rankings as an important standard to measure a website's quality, and every webmaster tried all means to higher the rank. however, some of them say that alexa is no useful in terms of quality, and there are many tools to cheat the alexa rank. many advertisers, on the other hand, take this as the standard to decide whether they put ads on websites or not. what's your view of alexa ranking, is it really useful, cause i'm running a little website and want to know about it!
1 response
@steelmoggy (410)
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10 Apr 07
On a website that I help run, we fund we had very variable Alexa ratings.
I think it depends upon people with Alexa toolbars visiting your site, and so I would expect it all depends upon whether your site is of interest to people with such toolbars.
I may be wrong here - but I would think that if the toolbars are, for example, not popular with older people and your site is aimed at older people, then your Alexa ratying won't really be that relevant.
The best way to build numbers is to provide good, strong content, vary it, provide some degree of interactivity on the site - discussion forum, mailing list - and let word of mouth in your target community to the rest. That's what's worked for me, anyway!
