The Alexa ranking for any site is generally felt to be inaccurate. It was only available for Internet Explorer and only measured the number of Alexa users using IE visiting a site.

I do not know why so many online advertisers, like PayPerPost and Text Link Ads, depend on an Alexa ranking to determine a site’s advertising price or qualifications for an opportunity because it is so inaccurate. But they do and until there is a realization of how useless the ranking really is, there is nothing that we can do about it.

With that said, Alexa has released a toolbar that is compatible with the Firefox web browser. While this plugin will not make the ranking any more accurate (afterall, it still only measures Alexa users and not *all* users), it will help everyone’s Alexa ranking a little bit.

For some reason, it would freeze Firefox on one of my computers. I thought it may have interefered with another plug in. After disabelling those plug ins and only having the new toolbar running, it still froze the browser. I installed it on another computer and had no issues. This 2nd computer also had the exact same plugins running. I have no idea what was causing the freeze on computer #1.

It sits in the lower right corner of the browser window. It is very unobtrusive and does not take up any additional real estate on overall browser window.

If you are a Firefox user, you may want to give this a try. It won’t hurt anything, but it would help tambulounge.com and other sites that you visit.

Download the Alexa toolbar for Firefox

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