other posted in other news  on 5 June 2009
by Andrew Lang 
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Alexa Rank More Important Than PageRank

PageRank is fast becoming meaningless as a way to judge the value of a page. It doesn't take into account the amount of traffic the page gets, which I think is a big signal for a search engine. Traffic measuring sites like Alexa are a good way to judge a website. The higher the traffic, the more influential it is. It's a basic signal, but one you can't get away from. If the home page of a site is PR1 but has a decent Alexa score, as opposed to a PR4 home page with low Alexa score, I'd judge the former as being far more valuable than the latter.

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