alexa ranking mean anything?

flybeta

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Yesterday I saw my ranking on Alexa was 1.8mil now today its 9.7mil, was reading 3-4 is bad so i must be in the worst of the worst lol..

Am I just that bad or am I buried few miles down in the sandbox
 
Hi flybeta
Do not worry too much about this. Alexa rankings can vary widely
This is what Alexa say on their site.

Some Important Disclaimers

The traffic data are based on the set of toolbars that use Alexa data, which may not be a representative sample of the global Internet population. To the extent that our sample of users differs from the set of all Internet users, our traffic estimates may over- or under-estimate the actual traffic to any particular site.
In some cases traffic data may also be adversely affected by our "site" definitions. With tens of millions of hosts on the Internet, our automated procedures for determining which hosts are serving the "same" content may be incorrect and/or out-of-date. Similarly, the determinations of domains and home pages may not always be accurate.
Sites with relatively low traffic will not be accurately ranked by Alexa. Alexa's data comes from a large sample of several million Alexa Toolbar users and other traffic data sources; however, the size of the Web and concentration of users on the most popular sites make it difficult to accurately determine the ranking of sites with fewer than 1,000 monthly visitors. Generally, traffic rankings of 100,000 and above should be regarded as not reliable. Conversely, the closer a site gets to #1, the more reliable its traffic ranking becomes.

I know people with a lot of traffic that have a bad Alexa ranking and people with low traffic that have a great Alexa ranking.
 
Yeah the alexa ranking is flawed, I wouldn't worry about it too much.
 
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