Yep, Alexa is nice and pretty, and can make you feel quite nice for a moment.
My hub/fake linklist thing,
http://www.pynio.com/ has a nice Alexa traffic rank of 53,327 at the moment. That's very low when you think how many domains are out there, but the number is only impressive if you don't understand the nuts and bolts of how it works.
That domain has over 250 of my freesites on it and I've been submitting them all over the place for just over a year - which explains why it looks like my little site is popular.
Loads of porn-surfers visit my freesites, but as far as being ranked the 53,327th most popular site online - and that's what giving a traffic rank number indicates - no way.
It impressed my wife when showed her the number, but didn't impress her enough for her to give me a blowjob.
