Comments on: Alexa Rankings Screw The Creative Class

By: ramciv

ramciv — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:50:48 +0000

wow, so alexa really suck! i am so much frustrated pushing my way to a higher alexa ranking, but to my surprise upon knowing this.. thanks for the info..

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By: Brigid

Brigid — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:44:56 +0000

Interesting article. There’s always flap in the webcomics world about site ranking and how sites are ranked, so this is a fascinating and relevant read.

By: listikal

listikal — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:28:21 +0000

Agreed, but Alexa still is the best guage for all sites. Until something is mandatory on all web design platforms, we aren’t going to have anything to guage best on, besides Alexa.

By: Darius

Darius — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:42:03 +0000

Zep, I’m guessing it is working for your blogs because of the readership. Blogs that appeal to the techno-savvy crowd are the ones that get penalized on Alexa.

By: Zep

Zep — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:14:33 +0000

You are right. But – on the other hand side – the Alexa system is working good for blogs. My brother has a webcomic and five times the traffic I get, but his Alexa ranking is five times higher too.
So I see the flaws, but I’m not unhappy with it: ;-)

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 29 May 2007 22:59:11 +0000

Alexa will always benefit the SEO /(other related) people. It is strange how it is seen as a maintsream tool for measuring site success and traffic levels.

By: Darius

Darius — Tue, 29 May 2007 18:34:15 +0000

Travis. Yeah you can and Mint has a pretty good developer base creating new and better widgets to plug in to your reporting page: Mint: Peppermill

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 29 May 2007 18:26:26 +0000

Can you track outgoing links with Mint?

I need to track the outgoing links that get the most clicks within a set amount of time (day/week/month).

Not sure if Google Analytics can do this either.

By: Darius

Darius — Tue, 29 May 2007 02:19:47 +0000

David,

Mint stats are great for real time statistics. I have both Mint & Analytics on COLOURlovers.

I need analytics for advertising purposes, but the 4 hour update lag doesn’t give me a good sense of who is linking or using my site right now… that is where Mint comes in.