Just wondering if anyone used the Alexa feature (What's Related) to monitor their traffic stats.
The feature is included in Netscape 4 and above, and partially included in IE 4 and above. In addition to giving a list of related web sites, Alexa maintains a database of over 7 million registered domains and a count of Alexa users that visit the site. Sort of a polled indication of traffic to a web site.
I was just wondering if anyone used this data, and if so, opinions on the results.
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JP Stones posted this at 18:06 — 13th August 2000.
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I have never really used this software at all, it just annoyed me - it is popular with you guys?
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revans posted this at 23:42 — 13th August 2000.
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Interesting, I never considered it annoying. The IE version just sits there as a "Related" button on the tool bar, if auto-launch is disabled.
Personally, I'm very interested in how my traffic ranks against competing sites. I'm equally interested in how sites I'm hosting, or how my advertisers rank within our industry.
I also find it useful to be able to cut through bs and marketing hype with the click of a button.
Then again, that's just me.
Justin S posted this at 01:50 — 14th August 2000.
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I just used the pre-installed IE version ('Related' feature). It works sometimes fairly well for me...
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bwilmot posted this at 20:32 — 20th August 2000.
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I personally hate Alexa. Its for a different set of reasons. If they are going to make a spider, make sure, like you're supposed to that it doesn't spider cgi. Darn thing spidered the whole dmoz script on my site twice. It ignored the robots.txt also in the process, which also would have kept it out. Another loose spider did the same thing to me, oxxbot or something. Arghhh
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