SEO For The Common Webmaster

Many webmasters crave the famous Alexa traffic ranking. I for one find it useless. Their rankings are based off of visits by users of their toolbar. Their system is very flawed and can be easily manipulated to change the outcome of the traffic rankings.

To me this is flawed in many ways.  Of course, last month Alexa announced a brand new way of calculating their stats that include many other sources. They do not disclose what the sources are but I still do not trust their system as a reliable way to measure traffic. The only true way to know your traffic is tracking the stats for yourself through either you control panel or other means.

What do you think?

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