100,401 Alexa Rank, but site is dead for 3+ years

**MarkMitford** · 11-12-2002, 09:28 AM

Hi,

I used to have a web site on mark.co.uk, never really did anything with it, and it hasn't resolved to a web site for the past 3+ years.

Today, I was checking Alexa ranks on some of my domain names and put this in expecting to get a big fat zero but instead it came up with a rank of 100,401. What gives??

Any suggestions why it has this moderately high rank?

Mark......

**David G** · 11-12-2002, 09:35 AM

Originally posted by MarkMitford Hi, I used to have a web site on mark.co.uk, never really did anything with it, and it hasn't resolved to a web site for the past 3+ years.
Today, I was checking Alexa ranks on some of my domain names and put this in expecting to get a big fat zero but instead it came up with a rank of 100,401. What gives?? Any suggestions why it has this moderately high rank? Mark......

Not surprised, it's believed Alexa does not update that frequently and their data base is sometimes very old. One of my sites is still showing contact information which was changed 4 yrs ago.

Plus I have seen many oddities with their ranking method and it seems quite odd and strange in some ways. Personally I never use Alexa or pay any attention to its rankings.

**Domainaholic** · 11-12-2002, 09:35 AM

Why waste time asking instead of re- acticating the site?
Are you sure you still own it?

I see it has about 80 links, that might be one of the reasons.

**MarkMitford** · 11-12-2002, 09:39 AM

Hi Domainaholic,

I am going to be reactivating it, long story but I registered it before Nominet even started charging for domain names (I got into this industry in 1995, wish I'd registered some of the available names I saw back then!), I was the main employee at one of the first Nominet members, when I left them I changed the tag on the domain to a friends company, and it has sat there for the past few years. As the domain wasn't officially in their billing system I am having to struggle with them to get the DNS changed.

It also takes me a while to get a site up for a new domain as I work full time and just got married so other priorities keep cropping up

**system0** · 11-12-2002, 09:43 AM

alexa is a terrible site to basis traffic on

**MarkMitford** · 11-12-2002, 10:02 AM

I agree its not brilliant, and includes subdomains and redirects, buts it a reasonable filter for me to see if I want to investigate further. i.e. If I see something coming up with an Alexa ranking less than 500,000 I will definately investigate further.

Mark......

**system0** · 11-12-2002, 10:29 AM

i would always check inbound links before i checked alexa
it gives a much more realistic estimation of traffic than alex does

**Banned: ad-lib** · 11-13-2002, 03:09 AM

Subdomains add to the domains ranking. For instance, "http://www.geocities.com/USERNAME/SOMECRAPPYHOMEPAGE" will have a ranking of "1,000" because the root domain is "geocities.com". And as we all know geocities is huge.

So simple answer is: Your page isn't ranked "100,401", but rather mark.co.uk is.