I totally agree that Alexa is not in any way ideal, it can be loose at times and i understand the plugin issue – however that is universal – it applies to us all.

However it is about the only tool that we have to work with from the outside looking in and almost every internet marketing guru you have interviewed has a site with a good Alexa ranking.

http://www.butterflymarketing.com/ 72,000
http://www.adsense-videos.com/ 134,000

I have already meantioned your own site is around 166,000

I have a large number sites ( probably too many and should be more focused ) my best is 350,000 so I know first hand that alexa is not perfect but internet marketing experts that don’t have a working site that they can point too under 1,000,000 is suspect for me.

Still good blog, enjoy the podcasts keep up the good work buddy.

I had an Alexa ranking here of 12000 at one point, then it dived to the 200K, despite my traffic not changing.

Remember that Alexa relies on people using Alexa tools. If you pay for 100 clicks a day from people looking for skin cancer advice, all of whom are not using Alexa tools, then it’s not going to rank.

Regardless of this, I know these two are legit. I’ve been to several of their conferences and watch in-depth how their system works.

If you judge websites by Alexa or Pagerank or any external ranking factor and make a decision based on that, then you’re making a mistake.

1, If you had 100 visitors a day ( regardless of where they came from Organic, PPC, refferal ) you would not have an Alexa rating of 1,500,000 – Alexa doesnt consider source.

Alexa is NOT perfect but it is a resonable tool – you yourself recommend using it “become a blogger”

When you interviewed Alborz Fallah and one looks at his site ranking of under 20,000 or yours here of 166,000 there is a huge creditability attachment – he ( and you ) run a successful site.

I have around 30 sites so I know quite predictably what 1,000,000 or 1,500,000 means and it is not 100 people a day try less than 10 ( I am happy to show you 5 or 6 sites on 1,500,000 I have in the oven clients to demonstrate this point )

2, I am using this couples own “maths” in the interview Darryl says

500 visitors ( at 0.10 a click ) with a 1/100 conversion equals 5 sales a day = $150 day – which I would be very happy with especially if you have 4 or 5 sites doing this.

But their flagship sites ( the 4 they reference ) dont get anywhwere near that.

This story has the feel of MML about it, there are people that are making millions encouraging you to be a part of their program and yet thier personal story doesnt add up.

I had a look at their associate Justin Bryce – his site is 1,000,000 as well.

The bottom line here is this – the types of sites that these peolpe are running have conversion ratios of 1 percent – I personally think that is a little high but I will agree with somewhere between 0.5 and 1 percent conversion.

But without lots of good quality traffic their selling the dream not living it, Alexa is not perfect but Alborz’s site, your site, my site and every other site I have ever seen stands up to its scrutiny fairly well, I dont believe this couple, I think they are MML’s.

Simple answer – don’t look at traffic, look at conversion.

Andrew and Daryl would be first to tell you think. They drive PPC traffic to their sites and even if they only send 100 visitors a day, if the conversion rate is high, they make good money.

I am constantly scratching my head and asking questions about programs like this ” mentoring program”

I went to the http://www.andrewanddaryl.com site, they have a number of flagship sites listed there ( 4 main ones ) including the skin cancer survior site mentioned in the site http://www.skin-cancer-advice.com/.

What I dont understand is that none of these site have an Alexa ranking over 1,000,000 – in fact the cancer site is 1,500,000 – anyone that know anything about internet marketing knows that that is a low traffic site.

Now I dont think that Alexa is perfect – however it is a reasonable indicator of traffic levels – the Alexa ranking of this blog is 166,000 – the alexa ranking of “become a blogger” ( the sister site to this one ) is 96,000 – so you get the comparision point right ?

100 – 150,000 high traffic >>> 1,500,000 low traffic

Mine own site is around 330,000 – now I get around 500 visitors a day which is the number mentioned in the interview.

How do you have 4 sites that dont get more than 1,000,000 alexa ranks and make that sort of money ?

Can someone please explain what I am missing – the maths doesn’t add up for me.

I was thinking of using Power Gramo. But I will look into Pamela. Keep up the great work! Tony P

If you’re not on mac, Pamela is a good option for recording Skype calls.

Try my friend Mwangi’s podcasting training for tips -

http://www.mypodcastingtutor.com/

Your interviews have excellent quality. I’m most of them are Skype to Skype but could you share what software are you using to record and upload to your site? I’ve only found your site recently but I’m hooked now! Tony P