Comments on: Google Trends for Sites Vs Alexa

By: jose eduardo

jose eduardo — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:13:02 +0000

Sorry Google does not work properly.

I have a page in knol and google sites and they cannot be found in Google!

Google cannot find many pages of their own.

I do not mean Google is useless, is the best but still we are not perfect in the web metrics.

Alexa can be close to some data I get intoi my own analysis. I ussually check server logs, several metrics sites, google and alexa and none of them reports the same. Sometimes google and alexa reports a new site I do in the top 50 !!!! Sometimes they do not see 100 000 users a day !!!

To me they are useful insight tools but mostly none of them brings the right results. Many reasons for that, robots, secure pages, subdomains, installed bars, anti script software, firewalls, you name it.

Even javascript on pages do not provide perfect report.

All tools useful but I will not bet my life on any.

Regards

By: Kevin Puls

Kevin Puls — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:19:00 +0000

Well, it has been nearly six months since I last posted a comment to this blog entry.

So here’s an update.

We launched our first, original site ten weeks ago and now have an overall Alexa ranking of around 1.132 million. Not too bad for a site that isn’t even yet optimized for keywords!

Our standing jump up roughly 40,000 a week.

Thanks for checking us out!

Best,

-K

http://www.for-the-troops.com/about/

By: The Dude

The Dude — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:33:36 +0000

Great post John, and Jdog thats a nice post! Informative!

By: John Cow

John Cow — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:12:27 +0000

That is an excellent comment and I agree with you 100%.

By: JDog

JDog — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:48:01 +0000

I think the traffic is decreasing because less people are using the alexa toolbar. I mean anybody that knows anything is using the G toolbar nowadays and combine that with G analytics it’s golden.

G trends is just the tip of the iceburg. I have been invited into the G adplanner and the info that’s available there is an eye opener. You even get traffic info on sites that don’t offer G advertising…

I think G launched the new version of trends to promote their new demographic filters on the content network.

What do you guys think?

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By: Mike Saf

Mike Saf — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:41:10 +0000

Google certainly is opening my eyes to some nice tools. Also, thank you for the IPhone offer.

By: Big Ben Patton

Big Ben Patton — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:56:22 +0000

Alexa alone is completely worthless, and honestly even in tandem with google, woopra and other tools it is merely just something else to look at. When flippin a site most will want to see Google Analytics and the sort as well as a few other stats. Trends is very interesting and its to bad that Alexa has not gotten it together yet. Big Ben Pattons last blog post..Making Money Offline

By: John Cow

John Cow — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:24:51 +0000

Absolutely… we think checking everyday is too much. There is most certainly a balance but for a lot of people it is almost an addiction.

By: B. Durant

B. Durant — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:22:07 +0000

I’m curious. Is it possible to be overly concerned with traffic and trends? I mean to such a point that a person can become ineffective because they do nothing but check stats all day? Just wondering…

Personally I find myself doing way too much stat checking (and both of my sites get hardly any traffic!) and I sometimes realize I’ve wasted all my dedicated writing and research time to doing the equivalent of watching paint dry on the internet. Between Google Analytics, my webhosts built in stats, checking keyword trends, etc, etc, etc, etc it’s a wonder I get anything done

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By: mragrotime

mragrotime — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:00:08 +0000

Alexa rank is pretty awesome, it truly shows traffic which I love! mragrotimes last blog post..agrotime.wordpress.com has moved to agrotime-blog.com

By: Blogstar Sid

Blogstar Sid — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:22:13 +0000

Woow just checked your alexa traffic curve.. itz totally down

Last week I got huge traffic (20 times more) but alexa doesnt show that

Concerning about Google’s thing,it doesnt show anything

So I left seeing stats and comparing with others..

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By: John Cow

John Cow — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:16:30 +0000

have you looked at the cowpetition posts?

By: Kevin Puls

Kevin Puls — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:31:17 +0000

As a newbie, this is way out of my league to start looking into trends. I have yet to build my sites. Any suggestions on how to get started?

By: John Cow

John Cow — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:18:24 +0000

problem is snagt is windows only… http://www.jingproject.com/ is mac and pc

By: Trent

Trent — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:58:01 +0000

You could always use SnagIt software as well. That is a great product that is easy to use.

By: John Cow

John Cow — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:15:20 +0000

Its not a plugin, we use the software http://www.jingproject.com/

As for the plunging traffic.. this is another issue with Alexa.. since they updated their algorithim a few months back everyones data is different. We know that our traffic kas gone up 30% in the last 3 months.

By: Seth Garrison

Seth Garrison — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:08:48 +0000

Alexa is old energy – old school – back in the last century.

There is no comparison.Google’s been there and back and Alexa is still looking for the keys to the car.

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By: CD Rates Blog

CD Rates Blog — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:55:50 +0000

Google also has the data from Analytics and its search engine. Alexa just has its tool bar. I would certainly place my bets with Google.

Alexa is supposed to be making some modifications to their ranking tool and using data from other sources as well. Different people have noted that it doesn’t seem to be happening yet.

BTW, are you aware that another site has stolen your graphic? Garry Conn had a post on it. http:// www [dot] crunchnow [dot] com/

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By: vishywashi

vishywashi — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:50:55 +0000

i love your arrows. what plugin do you use?

also, i’ve noticed that all these blogging sites that you mentioned are showing plunging traffic in the past month or two. just head to alexa and chose a 6 month range… you’ll see the traffic decreasing heavily. any idea why?

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