Some people still rely on metrics such as Google's Toolbar PageRank or MozRank to determine a site's authority, but it's simply too easy to employ methods that mean most metrics are about as reliable as Alexa.
While PRWEb boasts more traffic than PitchEngine, people are viewing pitches a lot longer than press releases, according to data on Alexa.com. Yes, your press release is getting online visibility in search and pulling rank, but is anyone really...
If you look at the Alexa numbers for AOL, NYT and HuffPo below, you can see that while the Huffington Post has increased their numbers the falling AOL ones more than offset the overall company numbers.
The Alexa numbers for the top aggregators ezinearticles.com and associatedcontent.com are below, how this continues once other sites get that share of searches lost should shake a lot of web activity.
SEO Book.com SEO Toolbar -- A comprehensive toolbar for Mozilla Firefox that includes a variety of link segmentation information, competitive intelligence metrics (Compete, Alexa, Quantcast, Google Trends for Websites), website comparison tools...
Furthermore, a user can identify a target rank for inbound link partners, selecting Google PageRank, SEO MozRank and also Alexa ranking as matching criteria A user can define their target audience from a partner site, by selecting from a set of...
Although some of the factors are silly (like Alexa Ranking), it's a free tool we like to use as another "piece" of the puzzle. I bet the highest numbers rank better than the lowest in most cases. Where does your site rank?
Google is now the most visited site on the web, according to Alexa, a spot Yahoo maintained for years. Interestingly, Yahoo has more hot pages over at Alexa. Brand Promotion Online -- Signals for Today's SEO SEW EXPERTS: ORGANIC SEO Well, you may...
Alexa -- I'm not a huge fan of Alexa, but they have a neat "related sites" link that shows what other sites your visitors have been to. Every set of keywords and every market has unique factors that seem to make things rank better than others.
Several companies can give insight about a site's audience, including Quantcast, Compete, and Alexa. That is especially true for Alexa. There's a misconception that a page with no PageRank won't rank in the SERPs.
Putting Alexa Rank to the Test, SEOlogs Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW Blog:
Putting Alexa Rank to the Test, SEOlogs Find out here, with these links to some of the latest topics being discussed in our own Search Engine Watch Forums, and other search marketing forums across the Web:
Del.icio.us has an Alexa ranks of 186, and Flickr has an Alexa rank of 43. The latest in my rounds of interviews was with Tomi Poutanen at Yahoo. Tomi is the senior director of product management for Yahoo Answers and del.icio.us.
This is why people obsess about things like Google Page Rank, Alexa rankings, and other things that really don't matter very much. We all want to measure the progress of our site(s) in as many ways as we can.
On Alexa, Compete.com, Quantcast, et al. Search engines can no longer be ignored, especially as there are people out there that are likely to create content that will rank for the particular search terms associated with the brand in questions, and...
On Alexa, Compete.com, Quantcast, et al. Unfortunately, the site does not rank for terms such as “DLP,” “Texas Instruments DLP,” or even “DLP television,” although another TI site does: DLP.com. This term is dominated currently by a .net and a .org...
It allows you to compare blogs based on Bloglines RSS subscriber data, Alexa rank, Technorati rank, and Technorati inlinks. Technically, this is the ninth day of Christmas -- as well as the first week of New Year’s.
The Blog Juice Calculator allows you to compare your blog with others based on Bloglines RSS subscriber data, Alexa rank, Technorati rank, and Technorati inlinks. Are you searching for some cheap Christmas gift ideas or last-minute Hanukkah gifts...
Sean Ryan at SLI Systems says lay off the Alexa bashing! If you were a high traffic Alexa site, you also had a lot of site searches. Sean plotted the amount of searches he sees against the relative Alexa traffic rankings of some sites and found...
Sean Ryan at SLI Systems says lay off the Alexa bashing! Alexa Ain't So Bad, Says Site Search Comparison - Alexa has come under plenty of fire recently as not being accurate (old hands have known better for years), as more and more people are using...
