Webmasters Rejoice! Alexa Releases Toolbar for Firefox

It's not working with me :(

that's good news,althought i dont' use firefox

Old but good news. Very exciting stuff

I'm surprised no one has "dugg" this yet.. digg likes firefox, don't they?

Without having any Alexa rank to my Blog what can i do with this toolbar? :cry:

Though Alexa might not be totally accurate, I still think it is somewhat helpful in getting a rough sense of how large a site is or how much traffic it gets (compared to another site).

Quantcast is a new open ratings site that I think could have a big impact on site ratings. This has the potential to be the new site standard as it's pretty easy to implement and share your site stats.

Search Status doesn't report info to Alexa does it? I've been using it for as long as I've had my Mac!
Thanks for the news John, this is great!

maybe you should start blogging bout something useful for a change. searchstatus is better: pagerank, alexa rank, with more options.

it's about time you throw in the towel on ur blog.

Nice, thanks for the info John. I'll definitely be checking this out. Hopefully my Alexa rank will rise now as over 75% of my blog readers use Firefox.

WHAT ??
Alexa ranks are based on tracking one unique IP per day per site visit. Refreshing the page a zillion times wont put you up in 100,000..

Don't you think Alexa would realise, that the page is not visited again, but just refreshed?

Nice Tool. Thanks John for the post

http://www.desibabesworld.com/

The Alexa toolbar is a good idea for Firefox. I haven't used IE for about a year now, except for checking how my web sites look in it. The SearchStatus plugin for Firefox gives the PR, Alexa, and Compete rating though.

Well, it's about damn time.

-Eli

im getting fun as alexa getting my ranking sites! thanks john :wink:

Great john... - a friend of mine saw your blog and decided to "help me" by refreshing my four blogs (that run adsense) every 5 seconds... lo and behold i get an email from google - banned!

goddammit! :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

now I'm going to try to appeal but we all know how that usually works. $h!t!

I already chewed out my friend pretty royally.

Yay, another toolbar that I'll probably never really use.

I might download it, but I'm sure it will annoy me after 5 minutes.

If you have a site like mine whose audience is primarily mid-stream Internet users, not bleeding edge enthusiasts, they don't have Firefox nor do they Alexa toolbar. Otherwise, my site would be #1 ;

"If you really want to be evil, you can install this Firefox add-on that will refresh your page every so many seconds or minutes. You’ll be in the top 100,000 in no time!"

It doesn't matter how many times you refresh, Alexa only logs one visit per IP. You can refresh all day if you want, it'll still only count as 1 visit.

That's wrong information.

Though if you alone visit your blog/site with Search Status or Alexa toolbar it's enough to push it into the top 400,000.

Well, I guess I won't be installing this since FireFox won't start after I installed it. Turned off all of my other Add-ons to see if there was a conflict, but still no go :sad:. Any ones else having problems?

Always leave it up to firefox to come out with something this great! :grin:

Now I have another search engine to look forward to.

just releasing this now? Not impressed. They should have had this done a long time ago.

thanks for replying to me the other day... my blog is finally up and running now... but still in the beta stages... i would love some ideas and suggestions... =)

http://www.mikeytran.com/

I've been using search status at http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/. Now I am trying this one

Finally! I have been using the one from quirk.biz, but now I'm glad Alexa finally released an official one for Mozilla.

Installed the toolbar and am tempted to use the little refreshing trick ( but I won't :smile: ). Should be interesting to see how certain sites, like this one, will move over the next few months.

John, linked to your point about the Firefox plugin abuse in my story "Alexa Toolbar Released for Firefox: Top 10 Reasons Why This Matters To Webmasters" - check it out here: http://www.ajvaynerchuk.com/articles/alexa-toolbar...

Nice toolbar.....Going to download after post up this comment

I installed it already :mrgreen:

Wow, thats great news John. Finally, a toolbar for us Firefox users .. :evil:

at last alexa for firefox.

I just read about this on another blog, and am glad they finally released this. I heard rumors about it for quite sometime. :grin:

John,
Thanks again for your Breaking News!!

Jaime

i know it doesn`t have something to do with this, but when are you going to give those ipod nano, that you get from that tech faire???

Does Alexa not use IP address in determining visitor information? It just seems like an obvious deterrent for those wishing to "refresh" themselves to the top of the rankings.

I think the only people who actually use alexa are webmasters, so how accurate can it truly be?

Thats great news! I've noticed with a lot of the sites I run, most people are using Firefox these days...Over 50% or more....actually 54% is the lowest at a quick glance based on stats over the past 6 months. I didnt think to check till now. Thanks John!

Your firefox add on trick is truly evil! :twisted:

ow, before this, they only works with IE.. now i know why my Alexa rank for all of this time is so... zero :cool: