hi i saw that recentely site alexa rank is improving fast now is about 29829
i am so happy
thanks phpbb-SEO stuffs

Alexa is so lame i mean why should a sites be ranked according to how much users with the alexa tool bar installed visits your site

kemraj wrote:Alexa is so lame i mean why should a sites be ranked according to how much users with the alexa tool bar installed visits your site

but it's one of the best ays to compare site visitors

But it will not be a level playing field say 100 users from your site uses the tool bar and does be o your site, and on my site no one uses the tool bar and i have more traffic than you you site will show more points and a higher rank then me.

So its not a level playing field

That's right, alexa ranking is not very accurate, and it highly depends on the countries too, since the toolbar is not equally spread. But they've been improving a bit lately and it's still more or less meaningful to see how site goes up and down.

And I'm sure most webmasters are happy when reaching the top 100 000

Alexa's ranking is imperfect, but it's not so bad if you round to the nearest 200,000. The article Why Does My Alexa Rank Jump Around? explains.

yeah it's good for webmasters
my alexa rank is about 20,000

What about Compete rank and MozRank? Is MozRank something like PR lol?

Yes mozrank is supposed to be an alternative to pagerank, though I'm not this sure that google uses less means to compute PR than SEOmoz claims for the mozrank.

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Hi ,

My forum has good no of visitors but alexa ranking is really bad .... how can I tackle this without using toolbar method.

Thanks
YB

Well, running the alexa toolbar yourself and promoting it around, eg advertise for alexa, is pretty much the only way to increase alexa ranking if you have visitors. The problem is that the proportion of the population using the toolbar vary a lot from one country to another, and also depends on the audience itself (age, interest etc).
In some case, the rank is just too low and in others it's as well too high. That's the limit of the system (being quite one).