How to increase Alexa rating? - Page 3

PhilC · 10-24-2003, 11:54 AM

Please post here when the new Part 1 is online. I'd like to read it.

younghistorians · 10-24-2003, 02:15 PM

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Some businesses quote their Alexa ranking when trying to sell stuff, so I guess it has a use for that. Apart from that, and when a website is up for sale, the only people being fooled by the traffic stats are the website owners themselves. I guess some of them like to be fooled though - they count hits rather than uniques.

thats one of my pet peeves

keltin · 11-05-2003, 04:36 PM

Hi Guys

Have you tried alexabooster? It's an amazing program.

More info can be read at alexabooster.com

**John Scott** · 11-05-2003, 04:39 PM

Why would anybody want to increase their Alexa ranking?

younghistorians · 11-05-2003, 04:42 PM

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Why would anybody want to increase their Alexa ranking?

I'm not sure...some people really use it alot to judge sites, others think its trash...im not sure which I think.

Jazzee · 11-05-2003, 04:43 PM

It's trash.

younghistorians · 11-05-2003, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by keltin

Hi Guys

Have you tried alexabooster? It's an amazing program.

More info can be read at alexabooster.com

All that does is cheat by using a proxy

keltin · 11-05-2003, 04:52 PM

It's not cheating. Just Using a tool to get a better rankings just like using a tool to get a good ranking on google or yahoo

PhilC · 11-05-2003, 04:59 PM

Yes, it's trash but most people don't know that, and some businesses point to their ranking to give themselves (false)web status. I had one chap on the phone (I forget what he was selling) who pointed me to their Alexa ranking. For some types of business web status is very useful - however false.

burgi82 · 11-05-2003, 05:23 PM

well, if exactseek (I think that's what it's called) ever becomes popular, alexa ranking will be important.
Right now, it's just trash, but still funny to watch, especially because they say I get about 3 or 4 pageviews per visitor, but in reality, it's more like between 1 or 2.

cgo · 06-17-2004, 10:22 PM

Alexa sucks!!!! It is based on BS! However, if you have a high Alexa rating it will help you pull in sales and investment $. "Can't live with it, can't live without it"

awall19 · 06-17-2004, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by cgo

Alexa sucks!!!! It is based on BS! However, if you have a high Alexa rating it will help you pull in sales and investment $. "Can't live with it, can't live without it"

high Alexa rating will help pull in sales? how does that work?

I can live without it.

samer · 06-18-2004, 09:27 AM

maybe some of those people that think that only good sites have high alexa rankings would prefer to advertise on those sites..

awall19 · 06-18-2004, 08:36 PM

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maybe some of those people that think that only good sites have high alexa rankings would prefer to advertise on those sites..

the same people who are that ill informed probably do not have an original idea or good business model to promote. they might give you short term revenue, but in the long run I don't think it makes a huge difference with most people.

PhilC · 06-19-2004, 04:52 AM

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It never hurts to announce that your alexa ranking is so and so ... with a disclaimer that alexa isn't known to be highly accurate ... helps with credibility and marketing ...

Marketing? Well, I read an interesting article about Alexa ratings ... the author said that Alexa ratings can be considere as 'samplings' ... something like the poll samplings taken during every election process where the rating points of politicians are determined based on a surveys of a small part of the population ... It can be argued that Alexa ratings is trying to show the perceived traffic of a site ... Though alexa sampling method does seem flawed, I don't see an ethical issue in using it to market a site if we also make it a point to add a disclaimer ...

PhilC · 06-19-2004, 04:56 AM

I visited the alexabooster site and this is how they promote the stuff :

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TO SUM UP THE ALEXABOOSTER SOFTWARE IT SENDS FAKE HITS TO YOUR SITE SO GOOGLE® WILL INDEX YOUR SITE MORE AND IT IMPROVES YOUR TRAFFIC RANKING!

The alexabooster software will boost your alexa rankings but it will also help increase your google® listings as well!! When google® index's your site, it will see in your log that you are receiving loads of hits thus giving your site more listing results simply because the googlebot thinks your site must be relevant so it increase your results!

awall19 · 06-19-2004, 09:41 AM

google will not index your pages more frequently because you spammed alexas ranking systems.

google already has a more broad toolbar install with their own system that they would have no reason to trust, pay for, or use alexa data in any way.

samer · 06-19-2004, 12:37 PM

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the same people who are that ill informed probably do not have an original idea or good business model to promote. they might give you short term revenue, but in the long run I don't think it makes a huge difference with most people.

i.c..

James Trotta · 06-22-2004, 02:20 AM

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Just shows what an utter crock Alexis is.

Yup.

http://www.internet-marketing-research.net/alexa.php

I considered paying 25 bucks to ahve my sight listed in an NFL directory. When I asked them if I could see there traffic report, they said to visit Alexa!

I haven't paid my 25 bucks yet, but I might do it anyway. 2 PR 4 links, 1 PR 2 link and maybe some traffic. It's proably worth it.

awall19 · 06-22-2004, 03:56 AM

any time you get links for a one time fee and it seems like the site is quality and going to be up for a long time then it is worth it.

i totally do not mind dropping close to a grand just registering my sites with directories.