Comments on: Alexa can be injurious to your wealth

By: Web Site Rankings Galore « Brian Berliner's Brain

Web Site Rankings Galore « Brian Berliner's Brain — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:07:26 +0000

[...] information from Fred and Om. Fred Wilson asks Whose Numbers Are Right? Om Malik states that Alexa can be injurious to your wealth. The services we will look at [...]

By: Web Site Rankings Galore « Brian Berliner's Brain

Web Site Rankings Galore « Brian Berliner's Brain — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:07:26 +0000

[...] information from Fred and Om. Fred Wilson asks Whose Numbers Are Right? Om Malik states that Alexa can be injurious to your wealth. The services we will look at [...]

By: The Boxxet Blog » Make Bad Business Decisions with Alexa

The Boxxet Blog » Make Bad Business Decisions with Alexa — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:55:46 +0000

[...] many other folks, I think Alexa data is just plain [...]

By: The Sad State of Web Stats …. or why they just plain suck — Shooting at Bubbles

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:28:08 +0000

[...] Om Malik said in a post today using Alexa as a driving point: Every so often you meet entrepreneurs and venture capital investors [...]

By: » tombot | alexa is just delusive

» tombot | alexa is just delusive — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:11:59 +0000

[...] is just delusive while many others have already posted on the misleading results of alexa here is another example from the trenches [...]

By: WinExtra - The Sad State of Web Stats …. or why they just plain suck

WinExtra - The Sad State of Web Stats …. or why they just plain suck — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:36:49 +0000

[...] Om Malik said in a post today using Alexa as a driving point: Every so often you meet entrepreneurs and venture capital investors [...]

By: Web Site Analysis Tools - Alexa ComScore, Compete - Praveen Kodur » Praveen:SEO,SEM,PPC,India

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:31:36 +0000

[...] Cutts on Alexa 2) Peter Norvig on Alexa 3) Business Blogs on Alexa 4) WebmasterWorld on Alexa 5) Alexa can be injurious to your wealth 6) Can you trust [...]

By: xesenta

xesenta — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:36:06 +0000

Indeed, Alexa’s cock-eyed “ping-data” can hurt a start up website. My back end stats say that we say that we get 2-300,000 request per DAY – which can mean around 15-25K views (per day). If Alexa cannot access my ISP – how can they possibly hope to report this kind of info by pinging my site?? Thats comedy. Just let me now when the CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT happens. They owe me a few bucks.

By: WebTenet

WebTenet — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:45:59 +0000

Even if Alexa ranking is not accurate, it is still used to judge how successful a site is and how much traffic it draws... which is sometimes also used for advertisement pricing purposes.

By: gregword

gregword — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:34:49 +0000

Taking you Alexa with a Grain of Salt

Om Malik writes about the pitfalls of putting too much stake in Alexa. I’ve been meaning to write a post about Alexa for some time, as I’ve been collecting tidbits of data that point to the relative inaccuracies in Alexa rankings. I don&#...

By: Georjina

Georjina — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:28:07 +0000

I'm surprised to learn that anyone was using Alexa for looking at a site's page rank! I've always used it to check the backlinks for a website and to check who's really linking to people wanting to link to my site.

Yes, I know there are other tools for that - but Alexa let's me see 'who you're really sleeping with' before I accept just any link. Had Google tell me that my natural health site was in the sandbox because a site linking to me (natural health care) was actually linked to 'get on the xxxxxxpornbandwagon'. My server didn't catch it, Alexa showed every link that site ever had.

Thanks folks, but for snooping - Alexa is my pick of the week:)

By: The Corner Office » Web Site Rankings Galore on BNET

The Corner Office » Web Site Rankings Galore on BNET — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:17:23 +0000

[...] information from Fred and Om. Fred Wilson asks Whose Numbers Are Right? Om Malik states that Alexa can be injurious to your wealth. The services we will look at [...]

By: Measuring Internet traffic: where are the biases? « Life is a venture

Measuring Internet traffic: where are the biases? « Life is a venture — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:12:55 +0000

[...] Internet traffic: where are the biases? Posted February 21, 2007 There have been quite a few discussions on traffic measurement lately. The general consensus is that all of them have some sort [...]

By: Zedge - 3.5 Million User MoSoSo at Wap Review

Zedge - 3.5 Million User MoSoSo at Wap Review — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:02:55 +0000

[...] their PC sites to register, update their profiles and push data to the mobile. I know Alexa data is considered suspect, but I think it's actually OK for comparing similar sites. Here's a graph from Alexa comparing [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:16:14 +0000

Alexa takes in consideration that most people do not have alexa tool bar installed. Lets say that you have an Alexa Tool Bar installed and vistit a website, Alexa will not only tally a click for you but will throw in a few clicks to offset the people who are not represented by having an Alexa Toolbar Installed. Lets face it, the only people who care about Alexa are those who need it for advertising or bragging rights. The average person does not care to have what is considered "spyware" on their computer.

By: podCast411 Blog » Blog Archive » Which Podcast Site has the best traffic?

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:55:03 +0000

[...] correlate or if Hitwise even wants to comment on the free service from Alexa. And YES I know Alexa is NOT perfect or even close, but we are comparing sites with audiences that are all interested in podcasts or [...]