Comments on: Is Jason’s experiment flawed?

By: chrbac

chrbac — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:27:38 +0000

McCAbe: Alexa rank can be important, for example, when selling advertising or maybe a whole website. There are few other ways for the buyer to verify how many visitors a site has.

By: Anupam

Anupam — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:31:40 +0000

I agree with you Tom. Jason tried to contradict his own words. It seemed that he too tried the same trick that others do in order to improve their Alexa rank! Bad it is.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:24:06 +0000

I agree Jason’s experiment is invalid. Alexa only counts 1 page view per page, each day, for each IP. I blogged about it at the link above.

By: Dave Forde

Dave Forde — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:19:00 +0000

Is Alexa as powerful as it once was? There seem to be more and more reports that the date is “off”

By: Eoghan McCabe

Eoghan McCabe — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:49:05 +0000

Is there some sort of advantage to being ranked well in Alexa other than being ranked well? I don’t know too much about it and never get what the fuss is about.

By: n00b

n00b — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:41:08 +0000

Yeah, I had the same question. If you can game it with only three machines as he claims, why is he asking for everyone to do this?

By: Todd Cochrane

Todd Cochrane — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:24:44 +0000

What is so ridiculous is that the Alexa toolbar only works on IE and as I look at my personal site stats nearly 57% of the traffic is coming from non IE browsers. Yet the traffic indications on Alexa is off to a factor of at least 10.

By: Om Daily » Blog Archive » Hacking Alexa

Om Daily » Blog Archive » Hacking Alexa — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:53:49 +0000

[...] Alexa, and its short comings were subject of a short piece a few days ago, over on GigaOM.com. Now Jason Calacanis is pushing a social hack that will further expose Alexa’s shortcomings.Â In case you are interested, check out Jason’s blog, and sign-up for it. Unfortunately, I am going to sit this one out, and instead watch from the sidelines. Tom Raftery has some doubts, and rightfully so. [...]

By: Damien Mulley

Damien Mulley — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:36:36 +0000

It is very easy to game from what I’ve seen other people do. The smaller the market too, the easier to game. The more people you have doing this, the better but even a small amount of people, say less than a dozen can get you way up the chart. Want to be number one on Alexa Ireland Tom?