My opinion is that Alexa rankings are a load of crap. However, other sites use the Alexa ranking to calculate advertising rates and whether or not you are accepted into some affiliate programs.
I’ve had sites I haven’t even launched yet go up half a million spots in the rankings just because I was working on them with the Alexa toolbar installed.
If you really want to game the system get ten friends to install the toolbar and ask them to surf your site a few times a week.
Eli | 04-Jun-07 at 6:02 pm | Permalink
Yes yes, I was once willing to install the Alexa toolbar to try and improve my ranking, but I soon found out that they don’t support Firefox… what is that?!?!?
I have a suggestion for your blog aswell, make it so anyone can post a comment, without having to register.
Ted | 04-Jun-07 at 6:32 pm | Permalink
Hi Eli
I have just checked my settings and unregistered comments are allowed, so not sure what’s happening here. I will try upgrading my Wordpress install and see if that helps. update I found the setting I needed to change on the Options>General page. I was looking for it in a what I thought would be a logical place under “discussions”.
As for the Alexa toolbar, I use a non alexa Firefox extension which also includes Googles page rank.
You can get it here http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/
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