Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'alexa'

Back in "the day," Alexa was a very talked about tool for checking the traffic data for a third party site. These days, people know to take Alexa's data with a grain of salt. Alexa data can be easily spoofed...

Posted on February 11, 2009 9:06 AM

Does Alexa have a separate set of standards that allow them to ignore metatags that other search engines are supposed to ignore? Well, perhaps Alexa thinks it does, because the statistics package site is ignoring the 'noarchive' tag and one...

Posted on November 3, 2008 9:43 AM

A new rankings system is now available within Alexa, we have learned. The new rankings system "now aggregate[s] data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users," according to...

Posted on April 17, 2008 6:46 AM

Let's face it: even if Alexa is not a good measure, it still shows interesting data. Forum members note that YouTube now has an Alexa rank of 3, which beats out Live.com and MSN (ranking 4 and 5 respectively). Do...

Posted on November 19, 2007 9:49 AM