How does Alexa work?

[Pinklinkz]

I have a site thats got a rank of 341,075 is that any good?

The reason I ask is that I would like to sell hard links on it (its a mainstream site mainly for gamers and computer hardware sites based around windows vista)

any info welcome

[Jens Van Assterdam]

The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and data obtained from other, diverse traffic data sources, and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis. The main Alexa traffic rank is based on a value derived from these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users). The three-month change is determined by comparing the site's current rank with its rank from three months ago. For example, on July 1, the three-month change would show the difference between the rank based on traffic during the first quarter of the year and the rank based on traffic during the second quarter.

[Pinklinkz]

so, is a rank of 341,075 any good?

[Jens Van Assterdam]

Nope sorry.

[Jens Van Assterdam]

Compare it to this one.. http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...ckyourself.com
Then decide for yourself.. ;)