Originally Posted by alec11

Before Google Era, Alexa is very popular, every site try to have better rank on Alexa.
but now, I think Alexa era is a little bit down since Google rank will updated frequently.
So, do you choose Alexa rank or Google rank as your traffic statistic ?

I see our traffics ranking for both ALexa or google.

I think alexa update your traffic ranking quicker than google because for my sites i see results changes within hardly two or three weeks.

I use also Google analytics for our traffics count and it it have also more features than other tools.

You can use it with simple your gmail id.

I think its best now a days and coz its providing by google so it will help for your ranking too, because google is counting your traffics

Google Analytics

Thanks

Alexa is an absolute waste of time as it can easily be manipulated can only counts people who use the Alexa tool bar.

I'm not the biggest fan of PageRank (if thats what you mean by Google rank) but if I had to choose it would be Google's.

KP

The traffic rank on Alexa for your site is not the actual because they give the rank based on the visitor who are using Alexa toolbar. So the site viewed the people who are not using Alexa toolbar will be not be counted in your traffic rank. Alexa toolbar looks like spyware which monitors the site which you visiting and I don't like it.

While in case of Google, they check the backlinks, your site contents and many other things to give the rank to the site. So I prefer to use Google to check rank even though it is not updated frequently. Also you can use Google Analytics through you can check your traffic source and actual visitors for your site.

Regards,

Kailash

It is folly to compare the two. Alexa is a tiny little silly self promoting piece of spyware, while Google is the finest search engine in the world.

As for Alexa being important before google? WHER? before google it was Altavista, hotbot, lycos, all the web webcrawler etc.

Alexa rankng is the easiest to manipulate, install the alexa toolbar - keep opening you site again & again or get a script that does it for you.

In 3 weeks, my site went from 8 million to 50000.

I agree with KP & OWG! It is useless to go by alexa rankings!

also, to keep in mind, apart from webmasters - other folks do not see any use in installing the toolbar as it is useless from their point of view.

And that segment (general internet user/ consumer) is bigger than webmaster segment!

To be frank i never care about alexa rank. I head that through few techniques anyone get higher rank in alexa, not sure about this.

DON.

alexa for life, why??? I dont know

A pagerank is google's way of telling how many backlinks, links and referals a site has. The better rating the better you are in google.

Originally Posted by KingPin

Alexa is an absolute waste of time as it can easily be manipulated can only counts people who use the Alexa tool bar.

I'm not the biggest fan of PageRank (if thats what you mean by Google rank) but if I had to choose it would be Google's.

KP

I agree. Our statistics changed dramatically when a couple of our regular customers updated their browser and didn't opt to keep the Alexa toolbar.