Thanks, what&#39;s appealing with Alexa is the country rank because the GA stats gives you your stats not a comparison of where you are with &#39;competitors&#39;, though at this rate I have decided to eliminate it from all my metrics<div>

<br></div><div>V</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Martin Gicheru <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:martin@techweez.com" target="_blank">martin@techweez.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Alexa really is about who you convince you have traffic, but the real measure would be google analytics, and ofcourse your Page Rank. As Albert said, a few individuals can alter hugely the impact on Alexa. <div class="HOEnZb">

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On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Albert Mucunguzi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:almuc@pctechmagazine.com" target="_blank">almuc@pctechmagazine.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


Not necessarily irrelevant, but the issue with Alexa is it gets affected by small changes in Internet usage, for example, they recently released update that would by default disable the chrome extension. This means they lost data from all those who did not re-install the extension.<br>



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Depending on your country, some times Alexa data can be influenced by the surfing habits of as few as five people!<br>
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So Alexa is not the most reliable tool.<br>
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&gt; Hi All,<br>
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&gt; I have a query regarding Alexa rankings.  Here&#39;s the situation.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I believe I have my SEO elements sorted ie Content, Keywords, HTML, Social and all.  My Google Analytics stats bear me out in that my traffic stats have been and are on the rise.<br>
&gt; My issue comes in with the Alexa ranking, seems the site has dropped by about 70 positions country-wise.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I&#39;d like to know if you pay much attention to your Alexa ranking.<br>
&gt; Secondly there&#39;s the issue of the ranking being based on people who have installed the Alexa toolbar on their browsers so does this mean the point of using Alexa ranking as a metric irrelevant?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Thanks.<br>
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