Thinking about banning Alexa from our site

Is this a good idea or bad?

[Compworld]

The info for us on Alexa has gotten so out of wack in the last few weeks, I am wondering if its worth have them spider our site anymore. One day we are in the mid twenties, and then the next day we are all the way in the three hundred thousands. Since it can no longeer rate traffic (atleast for us), would it hurt us to ban the alexa bot?

Thanks,

CompWorld

[Rosalind]

I have banned the Alexa bot from one of my domains, as an experiment. I'm not seeing a big difference as yet, all my traffic is rising pretty evenly across all domains, but it's early days.

The trouble is, there's no way to get Alexa info for Alexa itself. So you have to use your judgement as to whether it will become an important resource in the future, or a hopelessly biased irrelevance that's used mainly by webmasters trying to boost their own rankings.

[dgdclynx]

I have just noticed Alexa visiting. I am unsure if it is bots or a person. Perhaps somebody could clarify. Since my site moved eight months ago I have been trying to get my Open Directory URLs updated but to no avail. I am half-hoping that Alexa's relationship with the Open Directory might get this fixed, but I think the Alexa visitors would have to be people for that to happen.

Regarding the Alexa toolbar I have the impression that so few people have installed it that very low use (by yourself for example) can cause massive alterations in rankings. It definitely dont seem worth the bother.