Yeah, there are some people who like and and those that don't. If you really think installing the Alexa Toolbar will help the site, you should tell your members. They'll install it because they want to support the site.

And you run into a conflict because installing a mod that rewards users if they use the Alexa Toolbar is good, but members who don't install it because they want more privacy and don't want it phoning home won't think that's fair. Why are you rewarding users who use a tool that invades their privacy?

You make some good points.


I guess it must be because I'm a big jerk that only cares about myself and is keen on taking advantage of the ignorance of others while exploiting their willingness to help.
Is that what you want me to say?

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I didn't direct that at you. I was presenting both sides of situation. On the one hand, it does help as it increases your Alexa rank. However, some consider it an invasion of privacy (not me). So what I was saying is that side (invasion of privacy) would not like the administrator of a site rewarding users for using a tool that invades their privacy. I'm not on that side, but I was bringing both sides up for discussion.

My opinion is that everything these days keep track of what you do. Google keeps track of your searches, Vista keeps track of what you do on your PC, and so I don't really think this is a big issue (of privacy concerns).

So I would definitely want my users to install the Alexa toolbar, but not putting them in a separate usergroup and giving them more PM space, attachment size, etc.

So I'm sorry if it seemed like that was directed at anyone here, which it wasn't. It was just a general statement that I threw out. So, we're all good.

LOL
I was just kidding.
You definitley bring up some good points and its something worth thinking through carefully before setting up.

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You sounded serious, so I wanted to make things clear. Yeah, so every administrator needs to look at those points before installing. Maybe make a poll about it, and see what people say.

Just installed it and gonna see if I like it or not.

I do like that it is at the bottom of the broswer, as I don't want to add another row on the top of my firefox.

Right on

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I agree with the concerns about the "spying" comments. I also fail to see how the toolbar and it's use can improve your Alexa ranking.

An alternative for IE7. It has the option, via the config, to add the site Alexa and Google page rank to the status bar.
Once added you can right click and go direct to the Alexa traffic rankings or go direct to the Google results from this site.

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From the home page here at VBulletinSetup, with right click options displayed

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I asked my forum members to install this only to find that it causes page hangups.
Basically if you have number of tabs open, the page will hang when switching between them. I have been no fan of alexa(first the ranking algo sucks big time anyway) and their toolbar is usually flagged off as spyware.

Much better alternative is this. No hangups and it gives me all the info i need.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/321

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Thanks for the link. I'm going to try it now.

I don't think I would encourage people to install what some would consider spyware just to boost my Alexa rank. What do you care more about: your members' satisfaction and well-being or how well your forum ranks against everybody else's?

That's a general question by the way.