Why Alexa sucks

Hellas — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:31:26 +0000

I am not sure why many webmasters look, think and watch on Alexa website rank. That thing is completely useless. Why. There are many reasons, but main thing is their ways of getting their data. They simply can’t know how much some site is visited, especially if that site is not among the site visited from people who use Alexa toolbar.

There are many examples. First one is this blog. Alexa Rank of this Sulumits Retsambew entry is constantly around 130 000 and this site don’t even have 100 UV daily. Is it possible that webmasters who mostly visit this blog are using Alexa toolbar more then other people. Sure. Some of my sites that are getting over 3k unique visitors daily are not even close to this number, acrosstheplanet.net with 300 UV daily is not even close to Alexa of 1 million. Some people say Alexa don’t count very well sites that are not in top 100k results? That is why second example.

Year ago Netbuilders forum just started with his work. Those who don’t know it’s a webmaster forum. It progressed very fast. Few months after start forum had maybe less then 1000 unique visitors daily, but it ranked near other big webmasters boards like v7n, DP, warrior forums and similar sites. Again there are bunch of sites that have over 5k visitors daily and that are not even in top 100 000 results of Alexa.

Now you can say Alexa is more accurate in the top 100 web sites. You don’t need Alexa to figure out top100 sites, just a healthy logic. As someone said: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”. So please people stop using Alexa results and stop referring to them, they mean nothing.

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Opera SEOBAR

Hellas — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:24:45 +0000

Here is one very useful tool for all webmasters that use Opera browser. I already talked about this on my blog, but it deserves to be mentioned here to.

Opera SEOBAR is very powerful tool for people who do search engine optimizations so as for web-site promoters and analysts. It basically show you site Alexa PR and Google PR, and on only few click you can check is given site listed in most known social bookmarking sites, or you can see amount of backlinks on Google, Yahoo or Russian Yandex. SEObar is compatible to work with Opera 8 and Opera 9 browser.
Here are complete features of SEObar plugin:
Alexa Traffic Rank
Google Page Rank
Yandex CY (Russian SE)
Directory data:
DMOZ: Open Directory Project
Yahoo! Directory
Yandex.Directory (Russian SE)
Rambler’s Top100 (Russian SE)
Number of backward links:
Google
MSN – references for current page or domain
Yahoo – references for current page or domain
Yandex – number of referring pages and sites (Russian SE)

The information is displayed in the SEObar’s panel and the browser’s status bar.
Since SEOBAR is user js plugin it will not work well on sites with frames (but who still use that). Check the image to get the better idea how this plugin look like. You can see installation instruction and download this plugin from SEOBAR site.

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Why Alexa sucks

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