Alexa is s*ck and same as other metrics to judge a site like Google Page, Compete, Technorati. But it’s damn s*ck that advertisers see these metrics to judge our sites haha.
Have no idea about tips out there which say they can improve our Alexa ranks. I only believe that write good content, active and engage in social media sites and do other blogging tasks better will help our blogs improved.
Thanks for telling me the myths.

Thats true dude. Many believe in such myths and try out running Rank enhancers,which are completely useless for the bucks spent.

Cent percent true , bit still i dont get it , why quantcast and compete like sites require us to add script for tracking while alexa is godfather of all !
Finally Alexa ranking is true ranking

There is a major contradiction between your points 1 and 2.

Nice myths bro..

I can’t able to understand their algorithm actually..

Thanks for the info.. But i can check that my alexa rank is going new heights these days,, hope will in top 100000 soon..

@BlogrPro: I am not saying that a single person is having all the myths..many people have the 1st point as a myth while some have the 2nd points as a myth.

No matter what the algorithm is, I was happy because the Alexa rank on my new domain went down from 2,000,000 to 270,000 in a week

Alexa can be manipulated very easily doing some small tricks

I don`t care about Alexa rank. think about it just make us crazy but I still didn`t get it why until today many advertiser always looks on blogger alexa rank to decide they want to advertise or not???

i agree with your myths, people think its way to easy to manipulate alexa rank which is completely wrong and the toolbar data is not their only way to determine the alexa stats for the websites,

alexa actually dose not disclose other ways by which they count alexa traffic ranks

I would think that most of the people who install Alexa toolbar are young people who are bloggers, webmasters, programmers or some sort of website owners. That means websites that surfed the most by these group of people will rank higher.

As with any SEO device, there are far more myths than facts being circulated. Good to see some realistic info here.

@WebPageLottery: YOu are exactly correct. People who use Alexa toolbar are mostly Bloggers and Techies, So mostly technological blogs rank higher in Alexa ranking System.

this is what i got from the alexa site:

http://aws.amazon.com/awis/faqs/#Where_does_Alexa_get_the_traffic_data

Q: Where does Alexa get the traffic data?

Alexa gets its traffic data, including reach, page views and rank information, from a global panel of web users. The panel is used as a statistical sample of Internet usage to extrapolate overall traffic patterns and web usage information. The panel consists of Alexa Toolbar users and other sources web usage information. Details about Alexa’s traffic data can be found on Alexa.com.

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i don’t think alexa values the toolbar data much these days…

One thing is sure that if you write frequent content to your blog it helps us to increase the alexa ranking. Recently there is a trend of writing an alexa review of the blog to increase alexa ranking.

Alexa is good to get some motivation for your blogging.

It doesn’t add any value to the blog, but unfortunately some advertisers still consider it as an important tool to measure blog’s popularity and other aspects.

Your post really help me to know what exactly the alexa is and how it determine the ranking. I’m finding a way to increase my Alexa ranking. I think the only way for me to do it effectively is to write more quality content in my blog. Thanks for sharing!

Well, that’s interesting. Yesterday I was having a discussion with a blogger who was arguing how Alexa ranking is useless (got a feeling that he was little frustrated because his own rank was not so impressive) Go figure

Whatever it is, as long as my advertisers are valuing my Alexa rank to pay for their Ad, I would shout out loud – Alexa Ranking is Meaningful

Alexa provides a good gauge of site progression. Although it shouldn’t be the only metric, it does contribute to judging the popularity of a site.

I truly agree with your post…… But one more thing I would like to add……
If your ranking is very good a particular country no mater what your visitors are your ranking will be higher……..

Alexa rank is not the true indicator of the total traffic to your site, as rightly observed. It is just one of the indicators that can broadly tell about the popularity / traffic of a site, provided the system works properly and if the data size is big. But, in a real world, people can manipulate certain things; and Alexa is one of those things. However, to be fair to Alexa, I must hasten to add that the manipulation will not be possible (generally speaking) if your site has a top Alexa rank of less than 10,000. Manipulation to some extent is possible only at Alexa ranks say > 200,000 or so. Below that the scope for manipulation decreases as you go up the ladder of Alexa.

I don’t agree with the second myth that you cannot maipulate the alexa rank. Just Install the alexa bar on a brand new site and set it as your homepage and then see the result. And tell no1 about the site then also you’ll see that alexa rank is increasing

Thanks for this post. I’ve always believed that the 2nd option is true, but it turned our a myth. It’s a pity though.

Thanks so much for this information. I’ve been trying so hard to get my rank up and after reading this, I can develop some new strategies to do so.

Yeah..truly admired..!!…A very neat post..!!..You explained it very good..!

Alexa rank is pointless!

That’s all.

Simple way to increase your Alexa ranking is, keep check your site info regularly.