Comments on: Gaming Alexa

By: msdanielle

msdanielle — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:35:05 +0000

yea sometimes when i see alexa stats for a site that shoots up out of nowhere, and the site looks like crap and doesn’t navigate well, and doesn’t look like anyone maintains it, i get a little suspicious too… anyone know of another “alexa-type” site to compare traffic? i buy online advertising and it would be helpful for me

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:53:52 +0000

I can’t completely agree with this. Yes, Alexa has it’s flaws. However, at the same time when you monitor the whole internet, or at least make an attempt, there are bound to be problems.

By: SiteLogic

SiteLogic — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:20:00 +0000

I thought after this post that maybe the Alexa rank was genuine and that they had actually used black hat techniques on search engines, which were eventually detected. I think it is probably Alexa that was rigge though…

By: SiteLogic

SiteLogic — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:21:30 +0000

I dont completely agree myself!

Most people believe Alexa is ok for high volume sites, examples like the above are the exception as opposed to the rule, I still like messing with Alexa, and there are no free alternatives….

By: SiteLogic

SiteLogic — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:22:13 +0000

I think there is a paid alternative you can get access to but cannot remember what that service is….

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:05:40 +0000

But, alexa does not monitor the whole internet. It only monitors traffice that goes through people who use the alexa toolbar or the Firefox plugin.

By: DarrinW

DarrinW — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:54:33 +0000

Yeah, it looks weird. But I believe it has something to do with some SEO being done, maybe through gaming a social networking site.

These types of techniques produce high traffic overnight, but they are very likely useless, if you ask me.

By the way, thnx for faving me… I returned the favor

By: SiteLogic

SiteLogic — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:32:52 +0000

Thanks!!

Yeah thats the conclusion I wondered if they had done some SEO, but their stats seemed evenly spread across a lot of different countries, maybe Ill figure it out someday