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Thread ID: 128781	2013-01-15 01:32:00	Yeah ! - just got an Alexa rating for my new webiste!	Digby (677)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1322882	2013-01-15 05:52:00	Does that rating make you a Smart Alexa now? ;) Good one - well its a start If I could get it to 1 million in a year that would be great. Press F1 is on 32,609.	Digby (677)
1322883	2013-01-15 05:58:00	I'll have to check out SEO status toolbar. Google Page Rank is ridiculous. Its very hard to get one, and even ebay and Amazon two of the most popular sites in the world are only on 8! I only found out a while ago that Google Page Rank is named after Larry Page - the guy who came up with the algorthym,! I think it shows how authoritative a site is based on the links it has, not how many people view it.	Digby (677)
1322884	2013-01-15 06:08:00	I use SEO status toolbar - 7 of my niche sites and blogs have AR of 4, 000 to 7, 000. Compare with NZ Hearld and Trademe have 3000 and 1600. New York Times has 115, Google Search 754. I'm trialing doing nothing to some of my web properties for over 6 months - yet still get unigue and increased visitors and click through conversions, i.e. money. No appreciable increase in AR, Google PR and mozRank. So what's the ideal Alexa Rank? Low as? What's the threshold - the coveted AR number that would appeal, e.g. to advertising networks? Marketers used to obsess about Google's increased Page Rank and other numerical ranks. We were told not to by Big G. Is it not possible to get Alexa skewed data (www.mattcutts.com) (commentary from Google's top spam/search engineer) from those that can manipulate Alexa? I think the reason that the two blogs in your sig have the same Alexa Rating of 7882 (which is quite high) is that they are not stand alone website, but part of Blogspot which has that Alexa rating - not your pages. I don't know what their threshold is, but I do know that a US based advertising agency would not be impressed with my rating of 12,000,000 I think any site with a rating of about 100,000 is cooking with gas. I did quite a bit of work on this a couple of years ago when I was buying banner advertising, and the big boys want A LOT for a months banner ads. I suppose that If someone with the Alexa toolbar clicked on my site 50 times a day it would start to skew the results. But maybe Alexa would see that. Google is number 1 Facebook is 2 Amazon is now up to about 11. Pinterest has a ranking of 34.	Digby (677)
1322885	2013-01-15 10:35:00	but of course, the Alexa rating only reflects the data received from users who *actualy* have the toolbar installed - so the resulting information is skewed right from the source! How many kiwi's do you know that have Alexa installed ? ...not me or anyone I know, that's for sure maybe a good one for a poll ? :)	bevy121 (117)
1322886	2013-01-15 18:38:00	but of course, the Alexa rating only reflects the data received from users who *actualy* have the toolbar installed - so the resulting information is skewed right from the source! How many kiwi's do you know that have Alexa installed ? ...not me or anyone I know, that's for sure maybe a good one for a poll ? :) Yes Alexa rating is only from people who have the toolbar installed. But why does that make it skewed ? I only know of one kiwi with it installed - they work for a large webmaster. (but I don't go round asking people) I think that most webmasters would have it, as it is in their interest etc. I think more kiwis should install it, it gives you some quick information and there are no downsides (may be there were years ago when the internet was slow)	Digby (677)
1322887	2013-01-15 19:02:00	what are the top 20 Digby if it is not too much trouble	Gobe1 (6290)
1322888	2013-01-15 19:30:00	For New Zealand the latest stats are 1 Google.co.nz 2 Facebook 3 Google.com 4 Youtube 5 Trademe 6 Yahoo that amazes me as they are so slow 7 Stuff 8 Wikipedia 9 NZ Herald 10 Windows Live 11 Amazon 12 ANZ 13 Westpac 14 Blogspot 15 Linkedin - I must update my profile and do something there 16 Met Service - they have risen up in the ranks 17 ASB 18 Twitter 19 Word Press 20 Tumblr I'll do the world wide ones later	Digby (677)
1322889	2013-01-15 21:55:00	I'll have to check out SEO status toolbar. Google Page Rank is ridiculous. Its very hard to get one, and even ebay and Amazon two of the most popular sites in the world are only on 8! I only found out a while ago that Google Page Rank is named after Larry Page - the guy who came up with the algorthym,! I think it shows how authoritative a site is based on the links it has, not how many people view it. Amazon and ebay both well known brands, may not have many citatations and links from authorative sites, than say page PR 9/10 sites like government sites, twitter, facebook and edu sites. Google I believe installs some trust in such sites, as do many authority sites (with high PR) and their users (e.g. USA.gov, United Nations, - both PR of 10 etc) that would link to social media. Both those sites don't really generate their own web textual content to garner sufficient trust flow from a linking perspective; - Amazon relies on UGC - and I believe have been noted for paid reviews for Author's books. Also their their mechanical turk (www.mturk.com) system employs crowdsourcing (payment) - which may not gel well with Google PR. Also 1000's of affiliate sites link to Amazon, many that have included dare I say it - low quality or low authority sites (like mine)- maybe spam sites. - Ebay has sellers that did/may sell material for PR sculpting - won't sit well either with big G. Tons of research by marketers and I guess spammers, have been done for PR-Link tables, (www.google.co.nz) and as you say it intially is based on links - log values. I confirmed myself from this research article (searchengineland.com) which shows high correlation.	kahawai chaser (3545)
1322890	2013-01-15 22:18:00	@Kahawai Chaser What you say makes sense, I see now, its more a matter of trust in the website rather than popularity etc. We have to trust in Larry, he was the guy that came up with Google's first search algorithms. And it was his partner Sergie that worked out how to connect a whole lot of computers together in his bedroom to perform large scale searches. They are both geniuses.	Digby (677)
1322891	2013-01-15 22:58:00	OK here are the top 20 sites on Alexa worldwide 1 Facebook 2 Google.com 3 Youtube 4 Yahoo 5 Baidu - a chinese search engine 6 Wikipedia 7 Windows Live 8 Amazon 9 QQ - a Chinese portal ? 10 Twitter 11 Taobao a chinese ecommerce site ? 12 Blogspot 13 Google India (cricket scores anyone ?) 14 Linkedin 15 Yahoo Japan 16 Sina - a Chinese news site ? 17 MSN 18 Google Japan 19 Ebay 20 Yandex - a Russian site I'll do the USA ones later.	Digby (677)
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