You guys should get the Alexa FireFox extenstion

[Jeremy]

http://www.alexa.com/site/download

Alexa is a website that ranks all sites on the web based on popularity (hits, page views, etc... not exactly sure what) and is used by a lot of companies / people. So anyway, they get their info with the FF extension and IE toolbars. I've been using the FF extension for a while and it's pretty useful. But other than that, a couple years ago I was wondering if we could actually affect our rank if a bunch of people got it. They say it's impossible, but I don't know about that.

We were at a rank of about one million and after a bunch of us started using it we made it to 100k! So I'm wondering if people start using it again, if the rank will improve anymore.

To put it into perspective...
Yahoo is #1
Google #2
GoNintendo about #12k
Official AC site about #40k
TBT about #88k
AXA about #138k (but their forums are separate because of a different domain name)

 

[Caleb]

im guessing u have to have firefox to get it.

 

[Jeremy]

im guessing u have to have firefox to get it.

There's a toolbar for IE people. I have FireFox though, so I've never used that one. It's pretty useful though. It tells you the rank of a site you're on and gives you a quick little graph.

 

[Caleb]

is their a download for firefox on the internet?

 

[Kyle]

It's not as much 'useful' than 'cool'.

 

[Jeremy]

It's not as much 'useful' than 'cool'.

I guess, but I think it's useful (for me at least) because I'm always interested in knowing if the site I'm on is popular or not.

 

[Jeremy]

is their a download for firefox on the internet?

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

What do you use now? IE6 or IE7?

 

[Caleb]

yeah.if its popular than it may have a better chance of being a good website.although that wouldnt always work that way.

 

[Caleb]

.i have internet explorer if thats what ur asking.

 

[beehdaubs]

The Alexa extension isn't compatible with Windows Vista <_<

 

[Mickey]

The Alexa extension isn't compatible with Windows Vista <_<

Ew! Then I can't load it up on my desktop and my tablet. My tablet is owned and leased by the school so they made sure that no foreign programs could wriggle itself onto the machines >.>

 

[Jeremy]

I wouldn't know why it can't be downloaded if you have Vista. But then again, I hear Vista sucks pretty bad.

 

[neverbeenkrissed]

http://www.alexa.com/site/download

Alexa is a website that ranks all sites on the web based on popularity (hits, page views, etc... not exactly sure what) and is used by a lot of companies / people. So anyway, they get their info with the FF extension and IE toolbars. I've been using the FF extension for a while and it's pretty useful. But other than that, a couple years ago I was wondering if we could actually affect our rank if a bunch of people got it. They say it's impossible, but I don't know about that.

We were at a rank of about one million and after a bunch of us started using it we made it to 100k! So I'm wondering if people start using it again, if the rank will improve anymore.

To put it into perspective...
Yahoo is #1
Google #2
GoNintendo about #12k
Official AC site about #40k
TBT about #88k
AXA about #138k (but their forums are separate because of a different domain name)

that's weird...

i'm pretty sure yahoo is crap. have you ever gone to their news page? it's shameful.

 

[Prof Gallows]

I wouldn't know why it can't be downloaded if you have Vista. But then again, I hear Vista sucks pretty bad.

I have vista and it's working on mine just fine.

 

[Nate]

The Alexa extension isn't compatible with Windows Vista <_<

ew.

if they make it compatible then i'll consider downloading it.