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I have no backlinks as far as Google is concerned and I only have a few other small sites linking to me.
I then looked at 1 competitor website, has PR4 and has about 40 backlinks according to Google, so I guess the site must be older than mine and should attract more visitors than my site. And this site ranks 10 for the keyword.
I typed in this competitor URL in Alexa traffic ranking had returns a result of 2,400,000.
How can my site with only about 5 visitors a day rank so much higher than my competitor site? Plus, my site has only been up for 2 months.
What are the triggers that make up the traffic ranking in Alexa? Do robot visits count as traffic? When I upload FTP, does that count as traffic? When I refresh my page, does that count as traffic? If I have javascript turned of, does that count as traffic? (Google Analytics doesn't count me as traffic if i surf with javascript off)
[edited by: PowerUp at 10:14 am (utc) on June 3, 2007]
Alexa ONLY counts visits by alexa users. And they obsessively visit their own sites, skewing the results. They can't help it.
Perfect proof (if proof were needed) that Alexa is a waste of space.
Thanks!
You have an alexa toolbar; he doesn't.
No, I don't have an alexa toolbar. I use google toolbar. Any other ideas you can think of that is causing this?
Or enemies, or SEOs or whatever - someone does, and they prefer your site to your rivals.
This tells you a little about these secret folk - but NOTHING about your site, or your rival's.
All it takes is the SearchStatus addon for firefox and a lot of pageviews.
