Alexa ranking???
 

I have heard many things about this and how it is a true determining source for how much traffic a site gets.

I would like to know what you all think or know about this.

alexa is pretty good reliable

Depends on who has the tool bar installed.

As far as i know, and correct me if im wrong ... but Alexa's stats are only generated by users who have installed the alexa toolbar?

Granted thats alot of people of course, but that certainly affords a significant margin of error if you are looking for accurate stats of how certain sites are performing.

Be interested to know the exact details ...

Some time ago I saw few services that offer cheating alexa ranking.

Its quite easy to alter them..

Those cheating alexa rating are scams... Don't buy the program.

I think it doesn't work anymore now

Yes, not everyone has the tool bar, but you can always look up the traffic rank for one of your own sites and then compare that with your server log traffic, then you have a decent formula that will get you close.

I've always heard it's a better indicator of how many Japanese people are looking at a site, lol.

It should be used as a guide, but can be manipulated, so i wouldn't take it for fact.

I like it works for me.

I've always questioned this too. I don't understand why thehun would have such a poor ranking on Alexa when his site is clearly the larger than many others that have a higher ranking.

I think the Alexa installed base is very small. The changes are to fast and radical and suggest a small sampling. I have also seen notes on our site that suggest a few users with a tool bar installed can really alter rankings.

Couple of russian hitbots and you are at the top on Alexa