Alexa Rankings - Do they mean anything?

[ExampleName]

Hi, all.

I recently spotted a dropped domain name with quite a high ranking on Alexa. It had/has links in, and was ranked higher than any of my current domains.

Naturally, I snapped it up and started tracking the traffic.

No traffic. None.

I'm a bit of a noob. How can it come to pass that a site with 0 traffic gets a really high ranking?

 

[snicksnack]

The lower the alexa rank, the more traffic the domain should have, so if you got one with very high rank, it might only get very little to no traffic.

 

[Kate]

How much is the Alexa ranking ?

 

[ExampleName]

The lower the alexa rank, the more traffic the domain should have, so if you got one with very high rank, it might only get very little to no traffic.

I misphrased. I meant it had a "high" ranking if we were to look at #1 as the "top".

So essentially this was a low number, but "high" if this were a list at with #1 was the top digit.


The number was 21,516,629...


I know that's probably laughable to most, but as I say it was better than my current domain roster has, so I figured I'd take it.

I have some sites just under 100,000,000 on Alexa that get decent traffic. Was surprised to see something so far up from my current parked domains getting zero traffic...

 

[Jawed]

Any number above half a million has no value traffic-wise. I am surprised that you are disappointed to see that a name among the top 21 million sites has no traffic.

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PS: Alexa ranking has got its own flaws. Many sites with comparatively low traffic have high Alexa rankings simply because they have greater exposer to Alexa due to many reasons. Yet, your case is entirely different.

 

[ExampleName]

Any number above half a million has no value traffic-wise. I am surprised that you are disappointed to see that a name among the top 21 million sites has no traffic.

I guess I didn't make that part clear enough.


I have domains with worse Alexa rankings that pull in much more traffic than this domain with the much higher ranking.

That was what caused the disappointment.

Thanks for the tip on the half-million rating. That'll help a lot.

 

[Steven]

Any number above half a million has no value traffic-wise. I am surprised that you are disappointed to see that a name among the top 21 million sites has no traffic.

Not necessarily.
One of my sites that is in between 500,000 to 1,000,000 in Alexa is getting about 30,000 unique visitors per month.

Maybe, anything above 2 mil in Alexa may see very little traffic.

 

[ExampleName]

I have a forum that's ranked just over 2,000,000 and hardly anyone uses it - so that sounds about right.

I wouldn't consider that domain part of my parking candidates, however, since I actively use it to converse with and update users of some of my other developed sites.

 

[evil]

Usually a domain with alexa rating under 10 million is not of interest.

 

[DomainNameSalez]

It happens, I have a blog with an alexa ranking of 4,500,000 but it doesn't get enough traffic as compared the ranking. I figured it is possibly due to the fact that alexa ranking is only based on the number of users who use alexa toolbar. Now that cannot be lot many, right.

 

[lothos]

So essentially this was a low number, but "high" if this were a list at with #1 was the top digit.

The number was 21,516,629...

No offense meant here, but a 21 million alexa rank is junk. I have a site ranked at 863,800 worldwide and I don't even consider the ranking all that good.

Also, Alexa rank doesn't correspond directly to traffic amount. Alexa isn't terribly accurate until you get under the 100,000 mark generally.

 

[Kate]

At least half of my handregs must a have a better Alexa ranking, for what it's worth.