Why my Alexa Ranking falling down?

[Sherly]

Hello All,

My alexa ranking going down.....my site was down due to some server problem....is this the reason for going down?

Do any one have any idea for the same?

Thank you....

[Trace]

Alexa shows Youtube as getting more page views than Google when in fact Google is nearing 100 billion monthly page views; YouTube sees around 16 billion.

See the graph [alexa.com]

[oddsod]

oddsod, yes, thanks, but it's different than the normal usability

Something is either useful or not useful. There isn't a "normal usefulness". I gave you an indication as to the kind of application the tracking of relative performances can be put to. You will probably make use of it and modify it to work for you. Good luck to those who do have the imagination/savvy to find usefulness in the data. To the others, you are 100% right: The Alexa data is useless.

[Wlauzon]

Alexa results are skewed for several reasons. The most obvious one is spamming, but aside from that the 2nd most important is probably demographics.

That can be seen pretty clearly in the YouTube vs Google graphs as mentioned above. And you can also see that in the top sites, where the myplace/youtube type sites take up 2/3 of the top 10.

If you are shooting for info or data about the under-30 net skimming surfers then there might be something useful in it for you.

But when it tells me that yahoo.com is 3x as popular as Google.com it has some issues.

note that nobody has successfully spammed their way to number 1.

No, but I have seen sites get spammed into the top 500. And if it can be done for 500, that does not say much for it's accuracy.

If I just want to check trends, there are better ways, such as Analytics or [google.com...]

[edited by: Wlauzon at 6:06 pm (utc) on Aug. 24, 2007]

[woop01]

oddsod, normal usability as in a way to see how much traffic sites get.

However, I have found a use for Alexa...

Alexa is useful in determining when a site makes a big deal of it to their users or has a large discussion about it. That can be seen quite easily in a spike in a site's ranking followed by the standard slow erosion of that ranking. Here's a great example...

www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=webmasterworld.com