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More Alexa Bashing

Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 21:45

Turnip of Power has a blog post up about Alexa as a random number generator.

They write: Now Alexa has changed their algorithm, making it worse than useless. I’m surprised my site doesn’t record a negative score seeing how off base their estimates are.

Well, I thought I should check to see how my site did during my vacation. Sure enough, both Google Analytics and Quantcast showed my traffic drop to about a quarter what it was before I left for vacation.

At the same time, Alexa has shown a significant increase in traffic to my site.

So, I think that Turnip of Power is wrong. Alexa isn't a random number generator. It is showing a strong negative correlation to actual traffic.

UPDATE: This is a test update.

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Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 11:21.
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I think Alexa is a pile of

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 15:06.
I think Alexa is a pile of garbage. I just wish everyone else thought so. All the companies that I work with for paid sponsorships and paid posts factor in Alexa page rank to determine what jobs you can do and how much money you should be paid. That is why a lot of us have talked about it. It is like wrestling a pig. Just when you think you have it figured out the pig gets away again. Then you add on that Google recently took page rank away from people that do paid blogging. I did a post awhile back about the Alexa toolbar I made. Alexa says that it gets most of it's data from the toolbar users so I just use the toolbar when doing my Entrecard drops. Who knows if it will help but... http://yourfunfamily.blogspot.com/2008/06/alexa-toolbar-increase-rank.html
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