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How and Why Alexa Crawls the Web?

by Guest1464  |  12 years, 8 month(s) ago

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I was looking into the server stats, and found that Alexa bot has crawled my website quite often in past week. Can anyone please explain why alexa crawls websites and how does it do so?

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  1. Guest8771

    Alexa is continually crawling all publicly available web sites to create a series of snapshots of the Web. It has developed intelligent bots and crawlers that collect publicly available data from websites. It has also developed a toolbar that collects browsing behaviors of users. Whole of this data is analyzed at Alexa servers and is used to create features and services like

    • Site Information: Traffic rankings, search analytics, demographics, and more

    • Related Links: Sites that are similar to the one you are currently viewing

     

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