[WikiEN-l] Interesting article on Alexa

[Joe Anderson]

Alexa is mainly used by those with spyware installed, though I use the
SearchStatus extension for Firefox, which provides the Alexa rank and sends
data to Alexa.

I have no objection to this, as I don't mind making my site look more
popular! On that point, Alexa can be forged by site owners asking their
members to install Alexa to raise their ranking.

On 10/1/06, Joe Anderson <computerjoe.mailinglist at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> I have Alexa installed :P
>
> On 10/1/06, Stephen Streater <sbstreater at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 1 Oct 2006, at 08:50, MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
> >
> > > Well, obviously it shouldn't be used as the sole way of making a
> > > decision,
> > > but if it has a high Alexa rank, it means a lot of people who use
> > > that Alexa
> > > toolbar visit the site. That should give some indication. Also, if
> > > none of
> > > them visit a certain site that says something as well.
> >
> > In my cases it indicates that the UK Broadcasters
> > don't allow installation of the Alexa toolbar,
> > and that Alexa doesn't count iframe hits. As with
> > all these things, there will always be cases where
> > the raw figures are misleading.
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