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This is a discussion on Alexa Rank within the Search Engine Optimisation forums, part of the Online Marketing category; Just following up on something that was mentioned in the Spiders thread... I normally don't pay much attention to Alexa ...


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Old 09-11-2006, 08:32 PM
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Just following up on something that was mentioned in the Spiders thread...

I normally don't pay much attention to Alexa rank, but as it was mentioned I installed a plugin just to see

The site that was being discussed has a rank of 1205048, which puts it well outside the ranking scale, whereas this site is showing a rank of 98614, which is a lot "better"
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I have had a look into Alexa myself and can not understand how the thing works. How accurate are the statistics?
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I have had a look into Alexa myself and can not understand how the thing works. How accurate are the statistics?
They're not that accurate really, as they are based on users viewing a site with the plugin installed
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It can be easily gamed as well, its unreliable, but the best there is.
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To be honest I spent more then an hour trying to figure out how they actually do it without some sort of install or plug-in.
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