i've always wondered this.. (alexa question)
 

How does Alexa rank your site, and how do they monitor your traffic?

yea ive thought about that myself. according to them im gettin alot less fucking hits then i am thats for sure.

same here

them tracking hits to my site without me having some sort of tracking script from them just doesnt make sense

they're operated by a network of imprisoned mindreaders and fortune tellers forced to predict and determine traffic amongst a wide array of sites. they beat them with sticks so they try to be accurate as possible, although sometimes they purposely falsify the accuracy as a form of rebellion.

Isn't it based on people who have their toolbar downloaded and then surf sites?

hmm interesting information ..thanks fellahs:thumbsup

LOL
Alexa toolbars is just a myth then...

I have no clue, great question.

It's magic. That's what I've heard.

Noooooooooo, that can't be, get serious man how the hell should that work :1orglaugh

It is not an easy process.

never even checked my site for Alexa rankings, don't care all that much.

I have heard from both sides of the fence about the alexa stats. The stats to me are skewed by the people who run their installed toolbar.. so you have to take their data into context.

Some say that the alexa projections are accurate, others say they are way off.

My viewpoint on search engines as a whole, is they are increasing becoming less relevant as SEO folks do their tweaking to try and gain a position in the first 1,000 results (SE limit results to only 1,000 URL) and more importantly, the race to be in the top 25.

Alot of search results are having links at the top that when you click and view them, you wonder "how the f*ck did this page get ranked so high?" ALot of pages aren't even trying to be SE optimized, but are up there.

With my work at t3report.com , i see that traffic flows from website to website as webmasters send traffic around. So when a surfer clicks on a link on a SE result, they have left the SE world and now entered the world of linking relationships. If the surfer doesn't like what you have, you show them banners and links to go elsewhere, you do exit consoles and popups to send them elsewhere.

Webmasters build their linking relationships with other websites in order to move traffic around. This is exacty what t3report.com documents... to show who has those linking relationships. What you do with that information is up to you.

Those that are playing the SEO game have suggested that the report can help them to identify who might be good to establish a linking relationship in order to bolster their PR.

My position is that SE traffic is fine because it is free ,but it's way too competitive for millions of webpages to compete for just the first 25 spots, let alone the top 1,000 results. I see more goldmines in traffic from the hundres of thousands of websites that are getting traffic and you could mine that traffic if you knew where to look.


Fight the being the 1001st SE result!

Ok...way to much to read in this thread, can we start over and you break it down a little....I have seen this report and I see where this could be quite useful.

As an affiliate manager, I see the stats and wonder, if this webmaster has "more" traffic especially when they are convering under 1:100 with us. It amazes me to see trickle traffic when they are closign 1:49...either they are not paying attention to their conversions with us, or thats all the traffic they have but it makes me wonder if they have more and where is it coming from.

Can T3 help me there?

yes it can, and i have answered ya in the Attention Affiliate owners and Affiliate Managers thread at: http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...=419724&page=2


Fight the Redirect!

magic, those guys are just majic