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Alexa Top Sites lists

$999 anyone?

         

moltar

10:37 pm on Nov 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Alexa now sells the Top Sites list for a "small" fee:

Top 10,000 Sites - $999
Top 100,000 Sites - $2,499

How ridiculous is that?

Raymond

6:05 pm on Dec 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I think the price is quite reasonable. For just 2.5k you have a list of 100000 listings with moderately accurate information on traffic, company info, related sites...etc. For any business that may want these information, it is a very reliable and fast solution.

Essex_boy

6:06 pm on Dec 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Discount for cash?

moltar

10:22 pm on Dec 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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For $2,499 you can do 16,660,000 automated queries ($0.15 for 1,000 requests) to the Alexa Web Service.

That's more than 3 times the size of the whole DMOZ directory (5,216,591 sites).

fischermx

11:00 pm on Dec 1, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Since when is Alexa web services charging already!?

I had a development on that stopped because other businesses and were planning to take it again.

Rugles

7:00 pm on Dec 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

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>>>moderately accurate information

Really?

They have just about everything wrong on our sites except for the address.

It is so easy to manipulate the data with their lame toolbar that everything they have is bogus. So go ahead and buy the list, big waste of money.

moltar

7:34 pm on Dec 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Since when is Alexa web services charging already!?

Since recently. I think a few weeks now... They planned it all the way, but had it free in beta mode. First 10,000/month are free by the way.

It is so easy to manipulate the data with their lame toolbar that everything they have is bogus. So go ahead and buy the list, big waste of money.

I think the data is somewhat correct for the top sites. It tends to go downhill for smaller sites because the user cross-section is too small.

Raymond

7:47 pm on Dec 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

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It is so easy to manipulate the data with their lame toolbar that everything they have is bogus. So go ahead and buy the list, big waste of money.

You'd be surprise how accurate the data is from 1 to 10000. Anyone can easily manupulate the data up to around rank 20000. And it takes a very determine person to maintain the position.

Rugles

7:50 pm on Dec 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

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>>>You'd be surprise how accurate the data is from 1 to 10000.

What makes you think that?

jsinger

4:27 pm on Dec 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Maybe this is a dumb question, but who would want that info?

Yes, I want accurate info on our competitors, but very few of them are in the top 10,000, or even 100,000, and those we generally know about and can look up in Alexa's database. I find Overture's keyword suggestion tool to be a good free way to gather intelligence, too.