How Accurate is Alexa rating? How do you interpret it.

[yberlin]

[Jim Guinn]

[PattyGale]

[Jim Guinn]

[calvinchin]

Hi Jim,

Thank you for such a detail explanation of how Alexa works...

I was trying to fight for the higher ranking in Alexa and PR, but seems too
much effort has been taken and not seeing real results.

However, google somehow using a bit of PR to dictate the search results,
so if we want to appear at high position, we have to put in effort to increase
the PR too.

[Lynn Terry]

[calvinchin]

Hi Lynn,

Thanks for your recommendation....

I will put more FOCUS on those issues now...

[Jason Moffatt]

Jim,

Awesome post there.

I agree Alexa ranking doesn't really mean squat outside
of the IM world.

Heck, I wish it did. My Alexa ranking is about 138,000 for
my blog. People assume I get flooded with traffic, but in reality
I maybe get 100 unique visitors a day.

Most of them are in the marketing arena, which is why I assume
I get favorable Alexa rankings.

[mrLenin]

Frenkly speaking I can't figure out what tool is most verisimilar. Alexa, Goole PR or internetfortune? Rather different result. Does anybody know why?