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.
Intelligent systems are being developed that use data sources such as Alexa, Open Site Explorer and Majestic SEO to refine data relative to business outcomes. The recent closure of Yahoo Site Explorer has given rise to a number of alternatives from...
Looking at Alexa and comScore data, Bing gained 138 million page views while Conduit lost 165 million after Conduit began sending searches to bing.com. Speaking of Bing, toolbar startup Conduit, which dropped Google for Bing in December, may have...
Alexa data Load in Alexa Ever found yourself needing easy access to your favorite SEO toolbar, only to realize you're without your desktop or regular computing platform and stuck with your somewhat clumsy mobile device?
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...
If this is the case, you might have better luck with Alexa, which provides similar information. SEO Toolbar, SEO Quake, SEOmoz, and RankQuest. I agree wholeheartedly. The very essence of SEO is developing good quality content that gives your...
Several companies can give insight about a site's audience, including Quantcast, Compete, and Alexa. That is especially true for Alexa. Second, the toolbar PR has been known to be incorrect. People often pass over link opportunities because the...
Alexa Toolbar Accuracy and UsesPhilipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped posted yesterday about how the accuracy of Alexa data is really poor. Metacrawler Obovo.com Goes MobileObovo.com, a metacrawler search portal, which searches and returns results...
If You Like Inaccuracy, You'll LOVE Alexa! Yahoo Continues Search Suggestions RolloutYahoo has been on a search refinement kick lately, which continued on Friday with the release of Search Suggest for Yahoo Toolbar for Internet Explorer.
Alexa Toolbar Accuracy and UsesPhilipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped posted yesterday about how the accuracy of Alexa data is really poor. Metacrawler Obovo.com Goes MobileObovo.com, a metacrawler search portal, which searches and returns results...
The underlying problem is that the Alexa data is derived from users who use the Alexa toolbar. Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped posted yesterday about how the accuracy of Alexa data is really poor.
Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, has published some stats showing what many online marketers have been saying for years -- Alexa data is skewed by the fact that more online marketers download the Alexa toolbar.
Alexa & Hitwise and Real Numbers, Oh My! Philipp Lenssen reports on a whitelist of URLs found at sb.google.com which appears to be a whitelist of safe URLs to be used for the Google Toolbar. Toolbar from popping up on those particular sites.
Alexa, the toolbar that so many say is so easily manipulated? Alexa! BusinessWeek is going to use Alexa to tell us how popular a site is? Fox News (No.according to industry tracker Alexa.com. Alexa? But I won't even waste my time on looking at...
Alexa Traffic Rank Tiny Metro tech firm takes on giant Google [over toolbar patent], Detroit Today From The SEW Blog. Daily SearchCast, May 5, 2006: Google To Send Click Fraud Notices Out Soon; Microsoft Says (Again)
Similarly, we have a long history of other tools being tolerated for showing related content, such as Alexa. Explorer and Netscape had built-in "related links" functionality powered by Alexa that few ever objected to.
Those who can't drag themselves away from the Google PageRank meter will be happy to know that SearchStatus provides this and Alexa rankings, plus cached pages from Among those options is the ability to have a Translate Page feature added to the...
Alexa Ranking. One potential drawback if you're already using another browser toolbar is that the Desktop search function is embedded within the overall MSN Toolbar Suite. MSN Desktop Search, available today as part of the MSN Toolbar Suite Beta...
Enter a URL, then get back its Google PageRank score, Alexa traffic rank and a count of backlinks from Yahoo. Even common decency may be abandoned in futile attempts by desperate (or simply less educated) online marketers and others who will...
Drop by this thread in our forum: Google/Alexa Toolbar for Firefox Users. SearchStatus lets you see both Google PageRank info and the Alexa popularity ranking of a page. In addition to being able to search CitySearch data the toolbar also provides...
