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« on: May 17, 2002, 01:37:00 AM »

Alexa is launching a new search engine powered by Google
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/02/sd0514-alexa.html
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« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2003, 07:38:40 AM »

I love Alexa's search results.  They use Google's results and rankings, add pictures of the front page from the archives, include the popularity rankings from their toolbar users' browsing results, and 1-5 star ratings from user feedback. They also add lots more, like the number of sites linking back, contact info, and so on.

I recently broke into the top 50,000 sites on the internet.  (47,363 as of this morning.)  To celebrate, I put an announcement button on every page (in an SSI-based header) and then created a page to frame the Alexa results.

Of course, what I hope this will do is turn more of my magazine's regular readers into Alexa toolbar users which will further inflate my site's rankings.  Okay, so the number will be artificially inflated, but it will impress a lot of webmasters who need to decide on whether or not to link to my site, which is the REAL reason for this -- better Google rankings and more traffic.

You can see how I put the Alexa results in an I-frame at http://riroads.com/travel/alexa.htm
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« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2003, 04:38:44 PM »

That's interesting. I wonder how popular it will get.
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« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2003, 05:27:11 PM »

Instead of the note you might consider a little code given out by Alexa that I use in my site.

www.brazzil.com

My site is 16.873 in the Alexa ranking today.

The code that shows the ranking and how many people are linking to me (more then 1,100) appears at the right side on the bottom of the page.

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« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2003, 05:42:38 PM »

Nice little tool, but I don't have any room to put it on my site and I don't have that good of a ranking, hehe. Wink
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« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2003, 06:27:51 PM »

Neat.  I think I'll use it!
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« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2003, 06:58:34 PM »

Drat!  The Alexa sotware isn't good enough to sort out cheaters.  How do I know?  I cheated and it was incredibly easy to fool... here's the story...

I was so proud that I was ranking well, (better than 50,000 on the 3-month average) then I went out of town for the weekend.  During the weekend I was gone, the daily rank dropped to 180,000.  Then popped back up to "normal" when I began working on the pages again on Monday.

So I ran another experiment and discovered that I could singlehandedly push up my one-day numbers to 12,000 or so.  I could probably do even better if I was serious in cheating the system, and I could continue this easily for weeks if I felt like it.  I won't give the details, but it will be obvious to anyone with a sneaky nature what it will take.

So, what's it say?  If you work full time on your website, expect Alexa page rankings around 50K based soley on your own clicks.  And don't trust Alexa to tell you the WHOLE story if you need numbers on which to base important decisions.

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« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2003, 04:53:27 PM »

I have never believed in Alexa's ranking and never will. Those site's never know the true story and will never be able to evaluate a website correctly all of the time. They can try, but many good sites will still be placed or ranked where they shouldn't be. Many deserve more but those robots or do not know it all. Sad
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