Page Rank vs. Alexa Rank

600GLE · 04-20-2006, 09:18 AM

Can anybody explain me which rank (Alexa or PageRank) is better to control our site's performance?
On one hand we have a PR of 5 (which we think is not bad) but on the other, our Alexa Rank is 1,346,358 (which we think is not very good).
Thanks!

warzabidul · 04-20-2006, 10:29 AM

Alexa ranking is measured by those using the toolbar whilst pagerank measures how popular a page is on the web.

Pagerank is more interesting to use.

kevgibbo · 04-22-2006, 07:30 AM

There completely different things.

PageRank is rated out of 10 to judge the amount and quality of incoming links to your website.

Alexa ranks your website based on the amount of users and page visits over the last 3 months.The higher the rank the more traffic you are getting.

Anita · 04-22-2006, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 600GLE

Can anybody explain me which rank (Alexa or PageRank) is better to control our site's performance?
On one hand we have a PR of 5 (which we think is not bad) but on the other, our Alexa Rank is 1,346,358 (which we think is not very good).
Thanks!

PGOOGLE, I don't think your Alexa ranking is bad. It's much better than mine, which is 5,937,127. Besides, from what I've seen on the Alexa site, only the [b]really/[b]big dogs like Yahoo, MSN, and of course, Google, have the single and double digit rankings. If I understand correctly, your ranking is about normal for Alexa.

andrew247 · 04-23-2006, 02:44 AM

I use both to check a website's credibility.

If a website's in the top 100000 Alexa ranks, I'd say it was doing pretty well.

jcorkern · 04-25-2006, 07:46 PM

PR can be deceptive. you can target a national keyword(or phrase) like say "diet" and have a pr4 and need several thousand related links to get that pr4. Then you can target a keyword like "your town real estate" and only need 150 related links to get the same PR. I have seen countless sites with PR 4 or 5 and not rank for anything but the url of the site. There are many factors involved in these calculations. Alexa gives traffic counts(estimated) so I would be more interested in getting a good alexa ranking then PR. the better the alexa ranking the more traffic you have, and that is what counts. I beat higher PR sites with lower pr sites all the time.
Just choose a keyword at random and do a search on it in google and then look at the top 20 sites. I am sure you will see this with just about any keyword. I have seen PR4 sites beat PR7 sites countless times.

songchai · 04-26-2006, 12:34 AM

One Page rank my site haven't done good but at Alexa my rank incresing

myinnet · 04-26-2006, 05:13 AM

I think the alexa rank is not very important, NOt everyone use it's toolbar, but google pr is very important.

1ahosting · 04-26-2006, 06:45 PM

I always trust pr's. Sites with good pr usually do well.

internetgal · 03-06-2007, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by jcorkern

PR can be deceptive. you can target a national keyword(or phrase) like say "diet" and have a pr4 and need several thousand related links to get that pr4. Then you can target a keyword like "your town real estate" and only need 150 related links to get the same PR. I have seen countless sites with PR 4 or 5 and not rank for anything but the url of the site. There are many factors involved in these calculations. Alexa gives traffic counts(estimated) so I would be more interested in getting a good alexa ranking then PR. the better the alexa ranking the more traffic you have, and that is what counts. I beat higher PR sites with lower pr sites all the time.
Just choose a keyword at random and do a search on it in google and then look at the top 20 sites. I am sure you will see this with just about any keyword. I have seen PR4 sites beat PR7 sites countless times.

Yah, I do agree to some extent with you, but still confused about the fact that which one is more reliable! Can you or anyone help me out ?

04-20-2006, 09:18 AM	#1 (permalink)
600GLE Noogle Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Worldwide Posts: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Page Rank vs. Alexa Rank Can anybody explain me which rank (Alexa or PageRank) is better to control our site's performance? On one hand we have a PR of 5 (which we think is not bad) but on the other, our Alexa Rank is 1,346,358 (which we think is not very good). Thanks!

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warzabidul Senior Googler Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 110 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Alexa ranking is measured by those using the toolbar whilst pagerank measures how popular a page is on the web. Pagerank is more interesting to use.

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kevgibbo Senior Googler Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 199 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	There completely different things. PageRank is rated out of 10 to judge the amount and quality of incoming links to your website. Alexa ranks your website based on the amount of users and page visits over the last 3 months.The higher the rank the more traffic you are getting.

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andrew247 Google Guru Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: c:\GoogleCommunity Posts: 3,420 Thanks: 3 Thanked 18 Times in 17 Posts	I use both to check a website's credibility. If a website's in the top 100000 Alexa ranks, I'd say it was doing pretty well.

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jcorkern Googler Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: texas Posts: 98 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	PR can be deceptive. you can target a national keyword(or phrase) like say "diet" and have a pr4 and need several thousand related links to get that pr4. Then you can target a keyword like "your town real estate" and only need 150 related links to get the same PR. I have seen countless sites with PR 4 or 5 and not rank for anything but the url of the site. There are many factors involved in these calculations. Alexa gives traffic counts(estimated) so I would be more interested in getting a good alexa ranking then PR. the better the alexa ranking the more traffic you have, and that is what counts. I beat higher PR sites with lower pr sites all the time. Just choose a keyword at random and do a search on it in google and then look at the top 20 sites. I am sure you will see this with just about any keyword. I have seen PR4 sites beat PR7 sites countless times.

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