Alexa Marketing Stack Reviews 38

I cannot find anywhere to write a review on the Alexa+? Almost like Amazon is blocking reviews on this. I have tried it with my in house Alexa Dot unit.
It is TERRIABLE in everyway as far as i can see. You have to talk directly at the unit, if not it will not work. The old system worked Great. It can't understand even simple instructions like Pay sirrus xm channel 7. Puts you on some sirrus xm ad channel? Again no problem with the old system. It is also very SLOW compared to the old system do what you ask it to do?

The share option has vanished from my Alexa app shop list! This is a crucial feature that I use constantly, and removing it is beyond inconvenient. If this isn't coming back, you can bet this device is heading straight for the bin. This is incredibly frustrating!

Bit of a rip off. Still it’s Amazon,isn’t it. Doesn’t play what you want sometimes, even with unlimited. And Ifi d the voices it muffled when asking who does the singing..

Beware! Do NOT trust this company with your business information! I hired Alexa Media Marketing to provide SEO and software development for my small business. I provide a niche service where I assist contractors in obtaining their licenses. I gave them access to my website and to proprietary information for the purpose of website marketing, SEO, and software development. Once they had all my business information, the owners of Alexa Media Marketing formed a competing company, “Contractor Licensing Pros LLC” using MY business model and online presence as a benchmark for their competing company. Their contractor licensing website contains information directly from my website. They also hired one of my ex-employees and are misrepresenting her work at my company as their own experience in contractor licensing. I would not trust this business whatsoever with any of your information!

This service was great. Sorry its gone.

Glad that you will retire your "services" .

Nothing of use came ever out of this.

I am not that into SEO but I am learning and this is a great tool for someone who is rather new to the whole thing as me.

greate service, super ratings

3rd gen echo alexa... 14 months later totally stopped working... argos... no warrenty now... typical..... here comes google !

does a very good job, just as expected!

I was searching for a listing of search engines. I found that Alexa had "The top 500 sites on the web" and thought that it would be good because Alexa use to list search engines rankings before Amazon bought it. As I went through the listings on Alexa and checked each search engine, I found that at least half of the listed search engines were defunct, no longer search engines, or were companies selling products. Others were now malicious sites that have taken over many of the domain names. I had to be really careful to not infect my computer while checking the urls.The top sites are still in existence but what are their true ranks?

There is no way to contact Alexa support unless you sign up for a trial membership. So, you can't even question their data. A membership starts at $149 a month. Certified Alexa Rank starts at $19.99 for 10 million pageviews per month. What are they certifying? What are people really getting for that amount? The information is old. How can site owners be given rankings if Alexa doesn't even know what it is ranking?

To me, Alexa is a scam. I would advise website owners to think twice before signing up Alexa.

I have images that I can't upload here. See Sitejabber.

A really useful tool if you want to boost SEO and find the right keywords

love my alexa its way better than the google pod we had previously so much more choice of music without having to sign up to anything. i love the fact i can say alexa play radio 1 or alexa play radio country and we get the radio stations all streamed free

Usefull and good for gathering infos

Absolutely better than Google's and siri! Get yours before holiday disciunts are gone. Understands me 90% of the time (way more than siri or google) and amazing sound from Alexa's speakers. A real assistant!

One of the best tool I’ve ever used! Well I am biased because I have used all the time. I learned a lot thanks to their website. But it is kinda pricey. Some people even don’t know what it is. So i will write it here.

Your Alexa Rank is an estimate of how popular your site is relative to all other sites. The Alexa Rank answers the question: Compared to all other sites, how is my site doing? Note that since rank is a relative measure, your site’s rank is not only dependent on that site’s traffic, but also on changes to traffic on other sites.

Alexa has a large traffic data panel consisting of millions of people all over the world. Based on the data from this sample, Alexa estimates the number of visitors to all sites on the Internet. It’s a complicated calculation that involves correcting for biases as well as identifying and discarding fake or spam traffic. Our data scientists are the best in the business and they make sure the data we present is free of noise and non-human data, so you can make the best decisions for your business.

Every day, Alexa estimates the average daily visitors and pageviews to every site over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews over the past 3 months is ranked #1. The site with the least is ranked somewhere around 30 million. If no one in our measurement panel visited a site over the past 3 months there is no rank at all for that site.

I took these from their blog but I hope it will be helpful for other people

alexa.com isn't the microphone in your house that tells the government what you say.

it's a website analytics utility website.

I've opened the website for about 5 years. it's now, from my point of view, on version 3. version 3 has less information than the version 2 it was on 2 months ago. (version 2 had less then version 1, 5 years ago)

they MONEY seem MONEY to MONEY revamp MONEY their MONEY website MONEY every MONEY so MONEY often

I'm a casual user, just interested in a website general rankings. 2 months ago, alexa (version 2) provided me with a 12 month history. no problems. now (version 3), they don't. they've confirmed that the previous 12 month history they offered for free viewing, is now for paid accounts. free viewing is now 90 day history.

version 2 also gave you a nice little latency ping number, so if you thought a site was slow, alexa would confirm that, yes, it did take 3 seconds to load and was slower than 80% of other sites. version 3 doesn't.

It would be vaguely interesting to view alexa.com's 90 day ranking history on their website, to see how manypeople use it. It would be even more useful to view alexa.com's 12 months ranking history, but you can't do that anymore. (not only that but the version 2 12 month history, gave you a useful Y-axis scale on the traffic stat history. version 3's 90 day history gives you the data's minimum/maximum end points)

there are some sites that give you more than the 90 day history that alexa gives. Version 2 if I recall gave website ranking up to 1 million, version 3 only goes to 100,000

So, um, pay, don't pay, do whatever with this site. knock yourself out.

here's a review I wrote a couple of years ago (I didn't publish), after they revamped it from version 1, to version 2.

(Version 1 gave the information about which sites linked into the website you were enquiring about. version 2 removed that feature. Do you expect me to view? No Mr Bond! I expect you to pay) or, to use focus group language, "people appear to be getting value out of our site, without providing us with anything". apart from word of mouth free publicity. which I won't do anymore.

alexa's email support also has an interesting format. you ask a question, the subject of their reply says "your ticket has been resolved". unless it hasn't...in which case....you reply to your resolved ticket.

I can't imagine why older people (and sometimes other people) sometimes find the Internet confusing

version 2

It's funny how austerity never seems to apply to imaginary software companies. or "the internet of things".

alexa firmly falls into the category of sites that 99.9% of the world have never heard of, but the company only sees the traffic stats from that 0.1%, and suddenly thinks there's massive revenue to be made.

The result, is that they turn a good, sensible, useable site, into a mess that has "premium membership only" written all over it. when lots of people need a screwdriver, they use a knife. alexa's tools are website information equivalent of a multimeter, and my budget for a multimeter is less than the subscription price many websites ask for.

When I own a multimeter, I own a multimeter. Alexas site content changes from week to week as the programmers think of different ways they want to try and extract money. Who knows what the website is going to look like in the next weeks/months, as they try to scrabble as much perceived money from pockets as possible.

At a rough glance recently alexa seems to have gone for the microsoft pencil case and rucksack, because it's changed to the cgi 2-colour green blue interface.

One of the signs that alexa is not a 'normal' billing site, is that when you cancel your subscription, you loose access immediately. Most billing systems give you access until the re billing date.

When you try your subscription service, you learn that it is much less cobbled together than you were hoping for. It isn't a comprehensive utility which is worth a subscription. It's a roughly collected bunch of numbers that they are trying their luck at asking money for.

This review absolutely isn't stating that alexa is useless. It isn't. If the alexa site had no purpose, this review wouldn't exist. The only reason for writing this review is because the site has useful info on it, but the programmers seem to want to clutter the site up un necessarily and jump on a subscription model.

Alexa.com really is..."the internet of things" (wouldn't survive if it was a high-street business).

seems like most of the data is not that accurate to say the least...

The service is great, but the price for the packages is very high. When we do not have a business website or we have little income, we cannot pay a lot for their packages.