Continuous learning is a big part of our culture here at Alexa. Aside from personal and professional growth, we believe that our own continuous learning has a significant impact on our customers. And being able to reiterate our experiences to you is a part of us paying our knowledge forward. Continue reading
Many people ask us: How can I improve my Alexa Rank? We understand how important this metric is for you and your business. As a public metric, potential advertisers, investors, and partners will look up your Alexa Rank and use it as a way to evaluate the value of your business. For this reason, improvements in your rank can make a real dollars and cents impact on your bottom line.
“Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.”
- Geoffrey Moore, Author of Crossing the Chasm & Inside the Tornado
Let’s be real. In this metaphorical quote, you’re the deer, your industry is the freeway, and those cars coming head on are your competitors. In no world would you ever allow your company to wander blindly unaware and unprepared into the middle of any highly competitive market.
In my last post, I compared and contrasted the competitive intelligence features of Alexa and Google Analytics (GA). What we found is, while free, Google Analytics only provides the 10,000-foot view of your competitors’ activity. It is fairly non-specific and doesn’t provide you very detailed insight. In other words, for competitive analytics – it’s basic.
Alexa is thrilled to announce an exciting partnership with the San Francisco American Marketing Association.
We know that choosing the right web analytics provider can be a daunting task. You want metrics you can trust. You want to track 100% of your traffic. And most importantly, you need to present your best to potential advertisers and investors. Alexa’s Certified Metrics is your solution for on-site analytics, no matter your site’s size. Below are 5 key benefits of certifying your site:
We answer questions everyday about Alexa’s data, how it’s measured, and how we calculate ranks. In this special Q&A, we address some of the most common questions regarding these topics, and more.
October is a big month for Alexa. Not only have we wrapped up some major projects, including increasing our global traffic panel, but we also welcomed two new amazing team members to Alexa. Continue reading
Here at Alexa, the product managers are often asked about the differences between Alexa and Google Analytics. In this two-part post, we’ll do a quick compare-and-contrast.
First, let’s look at panel-based analytics – metrics that aren’t derived directly from the site in question. Our recent post about the measurement and accountability gap explains why it’s so important to get the whole story about what other sites in your space are doing (short version: so you can learn from their successes and failures and respond effectively). But since you won’t have much luck asking your competition to hand over their metrics, you need lots of panel-based analytics to put that story together.
We’re excited to announce that after a lot of hard work, the size of Alexa’s global traffic panel will be significantly increasing. Over the next month we’ll be incorporating lots of new data points, which will help improve the accuracy of our metrics. As a reminder, our data panel is a sample of global Internet traffic used to calculate Alexa ranks and estimate non-Certified metrics.
Fantastic – now what does this mean for me?