closed Alexa Appraisal.

[proprom]

Hi, does anybody know where I can get a conversion chart of Alexa.




What I mean is, if your site is at 100,000 then it will tell you how much traffic you would get?

This would be golden.

 

[spudleyk]

Dunno. But with my experiments, Alexa ratings are pretty easy to boost. I boosted my site from 1,000,000 to 80,000 overnight just by setting a auto reload page on my site refreshing a page every minute or so them let it run overnight.

 

[proprom]

why would you do that?
did it burn lots of bandwith?
does that inprove your ranking on search engines?

 

[David G]

Originally posted by spudleyk Dunno. But with my experiments, Alexa ratings are pretty easy to boost. I boosted my site from 1,000,000 to 80,000 overnight just by setting a auto reload page on my site refreshing a page every minute or so them let it run overnight.

Wow, that's an amzing difference, 1,000,000 to 80,000 in 1 night. Why did you do that anyway, just curious.

Also wondering how you set an auto reload page up? Never heard that could be done before, is it a script you had programmed? Just wondering. Thanks.

 

[spudleyk]

Well that was the "Today" rating. You have to keep that up for a few weeks for your global ranking to go down. But in 2-3 days my overall ranking went from 1,500,000 to 600,000. I am doing it as an experiment to see how reliable Alexa ratings were reliable. And from what i'm seeing, they are easy to skew.

I used the following PHP code :

echo "<meta http-equiv=\"Refresh\" content=\" ";
echo 30+rand()%30;
echo "\" URL=\"http://www.gamblewhiz.com/index.php?page=autorefresh\">";


Essentially all you need is the following HTML :
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="60" URL="http://yourpage">

Which forces the "yourpage" to be loaded in 60 seconds. So just point it to the "current" page and it will continuously refresh.

 

[David G]

Originally posted by spudleyk Well that was the "Today" rating. You have to keep that up for a few weeks for your global ranking to go down. But in 2-3 days my overall ranking went from 1,500,000 to 600,000. I am doing it as an experiment to see how reliable Alexa ratings were reliable. And from what i'm seeing, they are easy to skew. I used the following PHP code :
echo "<meta http-equiv=\"Refresh\" content=\" ";
echo 30+rand()%30;
echo "\" URL=\"http://www.gamblewhiz.com/index.php?page=autorefresh\">";

Essentially all you need is the following HTML :
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="60" URL="http://yourpage">
Which forces the "yourpage" to be loaded in 60 seconds. So just point it to the "current" page and it will continuously refresh.

Very interesting, I never did have any faith in Alexa and rarely look at it. I know it is skewed greatly because you need to be a member and a large % of the members are webmasters or siteowners themsleves so their traffic patterns will be much different than the general public I suspect.

Are you a programmer? Do I put that html code on a webpage and if so how does it start up as I don't see a start button code? Please excuse my ignorance on it.

 

[domainAddict]

You put the meta tag above the body tag. Then upload the site and go to that url. As its meta refresh, it will refresh on its own.

 

[gariben]

Alexa Rating is ONLY reliable if you're in the top few thousand.

Above 25,000 it starts to look skewed!

 

[proprom]

I was suprised, there are 7.5 million users of the alexa bar.

 

[system0]

Originally posted by spudleyk
Dunno. But with my experiments, Alexa ratings are pretty easy to boost. I boosted my site from 1,000,000 to 80,000 overnight just by setting a auto reload page on my site refreshing a page every minute or so them let it run overnight.

this is one of many reasons why you shouldnt bother quoting or relying on alexa results

I was suprised, there are 7.5 million users of the alexa bar.

my guess is 7.1 millon of them are webmasters

 

[David G]

Originally posted by domainAddict You put the meta tag above the body tag. Then upload the site and go to that url. As its meta refresh, it will refresh on its own.

Just as an experiment and NOT to improve my traffic stats I put this <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="60" URL="http://www.mytargetdomain.com/"> below the meta name area and above the </head> and it works but instead of refreshing the target website it only refreshes the site the code is actually on. Can you explain why please?

Once again, not curious to improve stats but only to verify the poor value of Alexa rankings (which I neve trusted anyway even before I knew it could be so easily manipulated), and also as a way for me to learn some html programming.

 

[proprom]

with all of that said, i have a question, if I get a generic domain name with 10,000 on overture and 80,000 on alexa is it worth the $69?

 

[spudleyk]

I'd say if the overture is 10,000 for "mydomain.com" not "mydomain" then jump on it. As for Alexa, i'd say, check mostly at the history graph. If it seems to have a long and consistant track record, then it's good. If it seems like it just got listed and has a awsome rating, it may be cheated.

 

[CEO-AIS]

that's why drudgereport.com is at 350 at alexa.com

he refreshes pages every minute

so any site with minimal traffic gets overcounts

alexa rankings are only valuable if you have targeted viewers

just an opinion

 

[mickmel]

Originally posted by CEO-AIS
that's why drudgereport.com is at 350 at alexa.com

he refreshes pages every minute

so any site with minimal traffic gets overcounts

alexa rankings are only valuable if you have targeted viewers

just an opinion

Alexa only counts one page view per unique per day, regardless of refreshes.

http://pages.alexa.com/exec/faqsidos/help/index.html?index=1

 

[spudleyk]

Now how come if i set an auto refresh page on my site refreshing every 1 minute. And setup my computer at home to look at it all day, my ranking goes from 200,000 to 80,000 overnigth and goes back to 200,000 once i stop the auto refresh?

Seems like they aren't doing what they say.

 

[alldig]

http://www.sillyjokes.co.uk/alexa/index.php