Comments on: Alexa can be injurious to your wealth http://gigaom.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/ Sat, 25 May 2013 01:30:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Web Site Rankings Galore « Brian Berliner's Brain http://gigaom.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128477 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:07:26 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128477 [...] 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 http://gigaom.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-168630 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:07:26 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-168630 [...] 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 http://gigaom.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128476 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:55:46 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128476 [...] 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 http://gigaom.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128475 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:28:08 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128475 [...] 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 http://gigaom.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128474 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:11:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128474 [...] 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 http://gigaom.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128473 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:36:49 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128473 [...] 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 http://gigaom.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128472 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:31:36 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128472 [...] 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 http://gigaom.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128471 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:36:06 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128471 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 http://gigaom.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128470 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:45:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128470 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 http://gigaom.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128469 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:34:49 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/21/alexa-down/#comment-128469 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&#…

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