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Originally Posted by BVF
Or you could just use alexa as a guide and compare it with www.quantcast.com or www.compete.com or plenty of other metrics websites and get a general idea...From what I've noticed, if you've high in alexa, you're high across the boards..Same if you're low...So if someone spammed asian boards just for an alexa rank, it would be noticed as soon as you checked quantcast...
I personally can't see anybody of significance taking the time out to spam asian sites just for an alexa ranking, whose only true value is for bragging rites and has NO monetary value unless you want to either sell the site or sell advertising on the site. |
Most plugin based browser trackers (complete just uses a mixture of them) are very heavy in the Asian markets. So if those markets flock to areas they skew up in rankings.
I was more saying that Tube sites numbers are largely skewed upwards because so many Asians abuse Tubes. Looking at the rankings of sponsor tube sites, they are much much lower, and if you test the traffic it's about equal on US/CA surfers as the huge tubes.
And people really do try to screw with the Alexa rankings, it's sad. I buy links and several people have had high rankings but don't have a listing / backlink on any search engine, no archive page, ect. Happens with trades too, all over really. Same idea is faking PR really.