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Written by Dave Mead January 10, 2006 Anyone been able to rectify a wrong Alexa listing?
My website (dmwebsites.com) is listed in Alexa, but not under my name or my website! Do a lookup and you'll see my predicament. It comes up as Comeclickbuy.com but with my screen shot.
This has been going on for sometime, years in fact and I've never been able to get it resolved. I've emailed Alexa and the person that is listed as the "owner" who doesn't even have his site up last time I looked.
If anyone can shed light on who to contact I would be most appreciative. I'd like 2006 to be the year I get a lot of these niggling little things sorted.
Thanks,
Dave Mead
DMWebsites.com
Written by Trudy Levy January 11, 2006
1996-2004, Alexa Internet, Inc.
An Amazon.com Company
From the Alexa site. I thought it was Yahoo, but it appears that it is Amazon that bought it out. The former owner developer, Brewster Kahle is involved with his site the Internet Archive.org and the Open Content Aliiance. He is a very cool dude, but no longer manages Alexa.
Trudy Levy, Consultant
Digital Imaging Projects
Written by Michael Martinez January 11, 2006
If it really bothers you, submit your site for a crawl and wait a few months. The crawl will happen quickly. The update will not.
Alexa's listings are fluff content and the only people who actually look at them or care about them are Webmasters who mistakenly believe that they are useful or relevant to search engine optimization.
If you don't believe me, just look at your statistics and see how many referrals you get from Alexa.com. If you get as many as from Google, Yahoo!, MSN, or Ask then go ahead and fret. If you don't get as many referrals from Alexa as from those services, then why are you agonizing over nothing?
Michael Martinez
michael-martinez.com
Written by Jennifer Thomas January 12, 2006 Re: this Alexa Listing Error --
About 2 years ago, I found that one of my websites which was for children was listed as a porn site. I emailed Alexa several times and waited months but did not receive a response.
I finally found the number to their legal department and left a voicemail message explaining the problem and added something along the lines of "I am going to issue a press release discussing how Alexa and Amazon support pedophilia with my situation as a case study." The change was made within 72 hours.
I can't recall I found the number to their legal department but it was probably somewhere on the website. You may want to try that.
Jennifer Thomas
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