Comments on: Is Alexa Ranking Really that Important?

By: Google placed second in Alexa Ranking, Live.com fast caching up!

Google placed second in Alexa Ranking, Live.com fast caching up! — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:20:34 +0000

Alexa is a very important benchmark to determine the rankings and traffic of sites. Google is placed at the 2nd position as per Alexa rankings and traffic rankings and is facing tough competition from Live.com and of course Yahoo.

By: Competition brewing for Google, Alexa!

Competition brewing for Google, Alexa! — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:29:24 +0000

Firstly, in Snapshot one can compare only three sites. Secondly, sites with less that 10000 uniques are excluded and thirdly, this is available only for the US audience. These three limitations still keep Google the favorite followed by Alexa.

By: Old Li2-Crystals

Old Li2-Crystals — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:30:27 +0000

[...] just read a post that asked the question “Is Alexa Ranking Really that Important?“. It presented the conclusion that Alexa isn’t accurate but that it is important. I [...]

By: kungfuchem

kungfuchem — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:33:57 +0000

yeah, alexa is absolutely a joke.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:43:32 +0000

I too agree… however PR is really not much better.

By: erichansa

erichansa — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:28:50 +0000

yes PR value tells the truth

By: alexa

alexa — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:53:33 +0000

[...] discussions/arguments about the importance of Alexa. This is the conclusion I??

By: Eva

Eva — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:17:27 +0000

I agree, it is hard not to ignore Alexa. It has some validity that it can give you a rough idea of how well a site is ranked but after the first million, does anyone really care?

By: subesh

subesh — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:39:35 +0000

Yeha.. I have seen some cases when alexa ranking confuses you..

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:39:40 +0000

Yes, we definitely have to live with it. The good thing is that we, as marketers know how to improve rankings with Alexa… so, it could work in our benefit.