I love the Alexa toolbar - what are you complaining about?!

The Alexa toolbar offers three great features, but like anything else you have to understand their limitations and benefits in order to get the best data out of them:

#1 Contact info for firms that don't show it. Sometimes I can use Alexa to get a company's phone number that I can't find on their site - works great!

#2 Related sites - or also visited, these are relatively accurate and since there is no reason to screw with this, it gives an interesting segway into an industry or sector of the web. Sites you would never have seen are now available!

#3 Alexa Rank - Lets you know how popular it is with the SEO crowd. Sure, Alexa spamming is done, but who cares. If you see a site with an abonormally high Alexa ranking for its keywords, PR, etc. you know it's a bunch of SEO type guys with the Alexa bar hitting it. It's not highly useful data but good to know.

There's other uses for it too - Amazon uses it to track user behavior and build a more 'usable' site - and I think their a9.com search engine is also using the data to augment its results for the future. If Amazon decides to build a truly competitive search, you can bet all those years of Alexa data will figure in...

So quit dissing Alexa as though it were the MSN toolbar - it's way better than that piece of junk.

If they don't have it on their site you should get the idea that they don't want you calling them





I can go to Alexa and put www.animal-porn.com as a related site for yours. What is so amazing about that? Any person can post any kind of crap they wish, and you will have a terrible time getting it removed.





I can go to Ebay, get an Alexabooster for $4, and have any rank I want on any site I want.



Well... some people like the odor of smelly feet, some like to eat calf brains... and some like the Alexa toolbar. Every one has their choice.

Whats wrong with MSN Toolbar?

I like the highlight search feature window thing.Google take note;)

Dan

No, you can not, these submit will be reviewed by Alexa staffs

if you've found a good use for alexa then congrats. I know a lot of people that use alexa for one thing or another... you can get some good info from it if you know how to use it properly.

Remember though - people have a tendency to follow what others say.... I know people who say alexas rubbish and they have never even looked at it!