Linklists divebombing on Alexa?
 

Anyone else noticed a massive traffic drop with Google rumbling? I noticed that all of the big LL's are in a pretty nasty tailspin.

Hopefully, this won't last.

Actually I noticed that I show up in good standings in Yahoo, but google, I don't see me ....I have a gut feeling google is going to have some serious problems over time as well with your US Gov thing, the new lawsuit Google has now and as far I as can remember, there is still the copyright legal action against them as well from a couple years ago for their google images.

Anyways, not sure whats happening, but the other day my PR dropped to 2, but back at 4 today....a friend of mine who was doing well with traffic with google has also seen a drop.

I'm still seeing whoever the person is...flooding the first several pages with his sponsor sites on funky urls, redirects, and a ton more things he/she is doing to bump everyone out. (even in yahoo).

In summary....I agree...hope it won't last.

Guess I am not a big one, staying steady, down lower in the food chain..:)

ronnie

Jay, I think that there are times when google attempts to filter out certain types of spam, and some link sites might also be hit. The nature of a link site is link link link... a pattern that is often caught up in the spam filters whent he write them.

There has also been talk on various boards and blogs about google attempting to filter out the PPC search pages put up on expired domains, as well as the people who rip off listings from dmoz or google itself and use them to populate spam pages. Again, the nature of those beasts is link link link, which might be what got filtered.

Google's 100% reliance on algo instead of eyes means that adult link sites and TGPs often get squished in passing.

Alex

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It is much more likely to be a tech glitch at Alexa and it definitely has nothing to do with Google, nor with traffic... and to say that it does is just stupid and inflammatory.

Oh look... Google has stopped listing itself!! and its traffic has crashed!

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...www.google.com

DD

I have to agree...take a look at GreenguyandJim at for 3 months and then check it for 6. They are not even close.
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...sboard.com#top

And, our traffic is the same as it was last week at this time.

Remember too that Alexa is dependant on people installing their toolbar, but that toolbar is noted and removed by most adware / spyware programs... so their sample space is fairly small - a single Alexa visit per day might shift your results all over the place.

Alexa isn't accurate on an individual case basis, but might be considered useful if you look at a large sample and compare it relatively.

Alex

I am in 100% agreement with everyones assessment of Alexa. Google is shuffling the deck right now -- I was just wondering how everyone was holding out.

if you check yahoo and all the rest of the sites in there you see the same result, its a glitch they have an error.....

from Alexa:

I think that clears that up.

Alex