Alexa Marketing Stack Reviews

Wonderful analytics, albeit expensive to get the premium service. Word of caution though, their stats are not accurate representations of what's what. Its web traffic reporting only uses data collected from computers with the Alexa toolbar.

Alexa has good tools to analyze websites. I have used the tool... Alexa is the good provider!

very good website.

I was searching for a listing of search engines. I found that Alexa had "The top 500 sites on the web" and thought that it would be good because Alexa use to list search engines rankings before Amazon bought it. As I went through the listings on Alexa and checked each search engine, I found that at least half of the listed search engines were defunct, no longer search engines, or were companies selling products. Others were now malicious sites that have taken over many of the domain names. I had to be really careful to not infect my computer while checking the urls.The top sites are still in existence but what are their true ranks?

There is no way to contact Alexa support unless you sign up for a trial membership. So, you can't even question their data. A membership starts at $149 a month. Certified Alexa Rank starts at $19.99 for 10 million pageviews per month. What are they certifying? What are people really getting for that amount? The information is old. How can site owners be given rankings if Alexa doesn't even know what it is ranking?

To me, Alexa is a scam. I would advise website owners to think twice before signing up Alexa.

I have images that I can't upload here. See Sitejabber.

I was searching for a listing of search engines. I found that Alexa had "The top 500 sites on the web" and thought that it would be good because Alexa use to list search engines rankings before Amazon bought it. As I went through the listings on Alexa and checked each search engine, I found that at least half of the listed search engines were defunct, no longer search engines, or were companies selling products. Others were now malicious sites that have taken over many of the domain names. I had to be really careful to not infect my computer while checking the urls. The top sites are still in existence but what are their true ranks?

There is no way to contact Alexa support unless you sign up for a trial membership. So, you can't even question their data. A membership starts at $149 a month. Certified Alexa Rank starts at $19.99 for 10 million page views per month. What are they certifying? What are people really getting for that amount? The information is old. How can site owners be given rankings if Alexa doesn't even know what it is ranking?

Alexa is a scam. I would advise website owners to think twice before signing up Alexa.

The claims that Alexa hears you despite any ambient noise is patently false. She often is so deaf that even a well enunciated command to lower volume is rendered moot. I just read that one can also whisper to Alexa. That is truly a Trumpian prevarication since she barely hears my loud commands when any music is playing. Amazon can fix this and hopefully will.

A really useful tool if you want to boost SEO and find the right keywords

Good Website ;)

nice work

This does not turn off when you tell it to. Sometimes it says that there's a problem but not what it is. It's dumber than Siri and that is extremely dumb. It's an expensive timer and thermometer that's not good to have around during a state of anger, irritation, or frustration. It doesn't provide music or bedtime stories without a subscription. We're unplugging both the echo and the dot and going back to the iPhone timer, microwave timer, and Bushnell's weather device.

Good Site for students as well as for others..........

love my alexa its way better than the google pod we had previously so much more choice of music without having to sign up to anything. i love the fact i can say alexa play radio 1 or alexa play radio country and we get the radio stations all streamed free

Usefull and good for gathering infos

Absolutely better than Google's and siri! Get yours before holiday disciunts are gone. Understands me 90% of the time (way more than siri or google) and amazing sound from Alexa's speakers. A real assistant!

One of the best tool I’ve ever used! Well I am biased because I have used all the time. I learned a lot thanks to their website. But it is kinda pricey. Some people even don’t know what it is. So i will write it here.

Your Alexa Rank is an estimate of how popular your site is relative to all other sites. The Alexa Rank answers the question: Compared to all other sites, how is my site doing? Note that since rank is a relative measure, your site’s rank is not only dependent on that site’s traffic, but also on changes to traffic on other sites.

Alexa has a large traffic data panel consisting of millions of people all over the world. Based on the data from this sample, Alexa estimates the number of visitors to all sites on the Internet. It’s a complicated calculation that involves correcting for biases as well as identifying and discarding fake or spam traffic. Our data scientists are the best in the business and they make sure the data we present is free of noise and non-human data, so you can make the best decisions for your business.

Every day, Alexa estimates the average daily visitors and pageviews to every site over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews over the past 3 months is ranked #1. The site with the least is ranked somewhere around 30 million. If no one in our measurement panel visited a site over the past 3 months there is no rank at all for that site.

I took these from their blog but I hope it will be helpful for other people

alexa.com isn't the microphone in your house that tells the government what you say.

it's a website analytics utility website.

I've opened the website for about 5 years. it's now, from my point of view, on version 3. version 3 has less information than the version 2 it was on 2 months ago. (version 2 had less then version 1, 5 years ago)

they MONEY seem MONEY to MONEY revamp MONEY their MONEY website MONEY every MONEY so MONEY often

I'm a casual user, just interested in a website general rankings. 2 months ago, alexa (version 2) provided me with a 12 month history. no problems. now (version 3), they don't. they've confirmed that the previous 12 month history they offered for free viewing, is now for paid accounts. free viewing is now 90 day history.

version 2 also gave you a nice little latency ping number, so if you thought a site was slow, alexa would confirm that, yes, it did take 3 seconds to load and was slower than 80% of other sites. version 3 doesn't.

It would be vaguely interesting to view alexa.com's 90 day ranking history on their website, to see how manypeople use it. It would be even more useful to view alexa.com's 12 months ranking history, but you can't do that anymore. (not only that but the version 2 12 month history, gave you a useful Y-axis scale on the traffic stat history. version 3's 90 day history gives you the data's minimum/maximum end points)

there are some sites that give you more than the 90 day history that alexa gives. Version 2 if I recall gave website ranking up to 1 million, version 3 only goes to 100,000

So, um, pay, don't pay, do whatever with this site. knock yourself out.

here's a review I wrote a couple of years ago (I didn't publish), after they revamped it from version 1, to version 2.

(Version 1 gave the information about which sites linked into the website you were enquiring about. version 2 removed that feature. Do you expect me to view? No Mr Bond! I expect you to pay) or, to use focus group language, "people appear to be getting value out of our site, without providing us with anything". apart from word of mouth free publicity. which I won't do anymore.

alexa's email support also has an interesting format. you ask a question, the subject of their reply says "your ticket has been resolved". unless it hasn't...in which case....you reply to your resolved ticket.

I can't imagine why older people (and sometimes other people) sometimes find the Internet confusing


version 2

It's funny how austerity never seems to apply to imaginary software companies. or "the internet of things".

alexa firmly falls into the category of sites that 99.9% of the world have never heard of, but the company only sees the traffic stats from that 0.1%, and suddenly thinks there's massive revenue to be made.

The result, is that they turn a good, sensible, useable site, into a mess that has "premium membership only" written all over it. when lots of people need a screwdriver, they use a knife. alexa's tools are website information equivalent of a multimeter, and my budget for a multimeter is less than the subscription price many websites ask for.

When I own a multimeter, I own a multimeter. Alexas site content changes from week to week as the programmers think of different ways they want to try and extract money. Who knows what the website is going to look like in the next weeks/months, as they try to scrabble as much perceived money from pockets as possible.

At a rough glance recently alexa seems to have gone for the microsoft pencil case and rucksack, because it's changed to the cgi 2-colour green blue interface.

One of the signs that alexa is not a 'normal' billing site, is that when you cancel your subscription, you loose access immediately. Most billing systems give you access until the re billing date.

When you try your subscription service, you learn that it is much less cobbled together than you were hoping for. It isn't a comprehensive utility which is worth a subscription. It's a roughly collected bunch of numbers that they are trying their luck at asking money for.

This review absolutely isn't stating that alexa is useless. It isn't. If the alexa site had no purpose, this review wouldn't exist. The only reason for writing this review is because the site has useful info on it, but the programmers seem to want to clutter the site up un necessarily and jump on a subscription model.

Alexa.com really is..."the internet of things" (wouldn't survive if it was a high-street business).

Not bad

Am I was extremely disappointed.Alexa does what she wants to do. I asked her to go to bing
the search browser. in the beginning she would do it no problem, then she started refusing to do it, And would only do the serch herself. sometimes I'd ask her '15 times in a row to go to bing and she would refuse to do it
I hate this I am about to take my amazon show and throw it!

seems like most of the data is not that accurate to say the least...

The service is great, but the price for the packages is very high. When we do not have a business website or we have little income, we cannot pay a lot for their packages.

alexa.com isn't the microphone in your house that tells the government what you say.

it's a website analytics utility website.

I've opened the website for about 5 years. it's now, from my point of view, on version 3. version 3 has less information than the version 2 it was on 2 months ago

they MONEY seem MONEY to MONEY revamp MONEY their MONEY website MONEY every MONEY so MONEY often

I'm a casual user, just interested in a website general rankings. 2 months ago, alexa (version 2) provided me with a 12 month history. no problems.

now (version 3), they don't. they've confirmed that the previous 12 month history they offered for free viewing, is now for paid accounts. free viewing is now 90 day history.

version 2 also gave you a nice little latency ping number, so if you thought a site was slow, alexa would confirm that, yes, it did take 3 seconds to load and was slower than 80% of other sites. version 3 doesn't.

It would be vaguely interesting to view alexa.com's 90 day ranking history on their website, to see how many people use it. It would be even more useful to view alexa.com's 12 months ranking history, but you can't do that anymore. (not only that but the version 2 12 month history, gave you a useful Y-axis scale on the traffic stat history. version 3's 90 day history gives you the data's minimum/maximum end points)

Version 2 if I recall gave website ranking up to 1 million, version 3 only goes to 100,000

So, um, pay, don't pay, do whatever with this site. knock yourself out.

here's a review I wrote a couple of years ago (I didn't publish), after they revamped it from version 1, to version 2.

(Version 1 gave the information about which sites linked into the website you were enquiring about. version 2 removed that feature. Do you expect me to view? No Mr Bond! I expect you to pay) or, to use focus group language, "people appear to be getting value out of our site, without providing us with anything". apart from word of mouth free publicity. which I won't do anymore.

alexa's email support also has an interesting format. you ask a question, the subject of their reply says "your ticket has been resolved". unless it hasn't...in which case....you reply to your resolved ticket. I can't imagine why older people (and sometimes other people) sometimes find the Internet confusing

version 2

It's funny how austerity never seems to apply to imaginary software companies. or "the internet of things".

alexa firmly falls into the category of sites that 99.9% of the world have never heard of, but the company only sees the traffic stats from that 0.1%, and suddenly thinks there's massive revenue to be made.

The result, is that they turn a good, sensible, useable site, into a mess that has "premium membership only" written all over it. when lots of people need a screwdriver, they use a knife. alexa's tools are website information equivalent of a multimeter, and my budget for a multimeter is less than the subscription price many websites ask for.

When I own a multimeter, I own a multimeter. Alexas site content changes from week to week as the programmers think of different ways they want to try and extract money. Who knows what the website is going to look like in the next weeks/months, as they try to scrabble as much perceived money from pockets as possible.

At a rough glance recently alexa seems to have gone for the microsoft pencil case and rucksack, because it's changed to the cgi 2-colour green blue interface.

One of the signs that alexa is not a 'normal' billing site, is that when you cancel your subscription, you loose access immediately. Most billing systems give you access until the re billing date. When you try your subscription service, you learn that it is much less cobbled together than you were hoping for.

It isn't a comprehensive utility which is worth a subscription. It's a roughly collected bunch of numbers that they are trying their luck at asking money for.

This review absolutely isn't stating that alexa is useless. It isn't. If the alexa site had no purpose, this review wouldn't exist. The only reason for writing this review is because the site has useful info on it, but the programmers seem to want to clutter the site up un necessarily and jump on a subscription model.

Alexa.com really is..."the internet of things" (wouldn't survive if it was a high-street business).

my dot 3rd generation works only 3 months , anyway I almost never use it , when I decided to call customer service 6 months , they said my wifi was not secure ,but it is , anyway they want me to pay $ 99.99 to made my alexa work when I refuse to pay and said that is stupid pay $99.99 for 1 yr full support the guy talk me that I am stupid and the alexa is only for rich people not for me, He piss me off , The number I called was 1888 356 3444, I didn't even understand his name, his accent of this Indian guy was horrible , Take a note

Wonderful to see your website position in the world !
With the toolbar is better :)

I feel Alexis are more concerned with results that putting the satisfaction of there customers in mind.

I'm subscribed to a trial, thought I cancelled, but it never completed. I never used the tool after the trial, but was charged three months, totaling $1000. They never called me back, won't put me on the phone with anyone and won't respond to my messages on their support site, facebook, or twitter. This is the most disrespectful company I've ever dealt with.