It is of no significance. Just like you.

that was to stop noobs from trying to trade with you

nothing more no half ass tgp back in the day was over 100k

100k is pathetic when it comes to mass traffic tgp's :2 cents:

I thought it didn't matter until I started selling hardlinks. Then I received a couple of "Alexa ranking is too low" emails so I guess it does matter to some of us.

It only matters to idiots.

PR and Alexa both are like trophies, some people care about them and to some it's just one more thing to dust around the house.
PR is mostly controlled through the number of backlinks to the site and Alexa is controlled by the amount of ALEXA TOOLBAR TRAFFIC.
I believe GFY has such a good Alexa rank for several reasons.
1. Many webmasters and traffic guys DO have the alexa toolbar installed. Also people who work in the ad industry, Juicyads for instance, rank and value the money to be made on a site by alexa. Not perfect but the best thing going at the moment.
2. Robbies right in GFY members spending a considerable amount of time on site, good for Alexa ranking. Also moving from one page to another a frequent amount of times all increases the score for our own GFY.
3. The sheer numbers of visitors coming to view the GFY site all help to contribute to our great alexa ranking and should help quiet down the assholes out there that keep posting threads stating the porn business is over and we're all headed for gloom and doom.
We're cool, enjoy it!

Nice to have a nice Alexa ranking if you are selling prepaid on your site(s)
Lot of adult companies bought the Adult Alexa list (yes, they sell it) and are buying left and right if you are ranking on that list...

That being said, i don't agree with Sandman, Niched sites under 100k Alexa still bring in the $$

I know that. Just saying that's the only use to alexa traffic.

And for selling ads or links.

Yeah that makes sense. I didn't think time on site could cause a ranking like that.
Pages views is going to be huge also.

I still think the rank is not accurate because thehun is ranked lower then gfy and if
I'm counting straight traffic then I have to go with thehun should out rank gfy.

Same here.

I guy on this board pretty much made a solid deal for me to list his content on
my front page and then changed his mind because of my alexa ranking.

I even told him that it would be conditional and taken down at his request if he
didn't think it was working out; but no, he stuck to the alexa rank.

The Hun has many, many times the amount of traffic GFY has. But it's mainly a single page that all the traffic is at. And then they leave to go see the links on the page. Maybe that's part of the reason he i-framed everything recently to get his Alexa ranking up where it should be by keeping people from leaving and getting Alexa to see it as more time on the site (which he is justified in doing)

50 unranked rankings.

Pretty Accurate

....As in it matters, but it really doesn't

That's goofy. You would think they would check it before the attempt to do any kind of link trades if it was that important to um. I am not charging anything to place hard links on ay of my sites and some webmasters have still changed there mind about putting one on it just because of Alexa rating. Kind of silly to turn down any kind of free traffic i think. Every visitor helps.

To base judgement on alexa ranking only: it is stupid, simply because you can go in top 10k by buy every month few $100's woth of popunders who will make zero signup, but grow your alexa ranking sooo much. Look at livejasmin, with popunders they're like a facebook or google there. We also advertised with popunders at times and alexa reached top 10k, then when stopped returned low, but sales was the same really, just hosting bill increased that period :)

It is however true that lots people look at alexa ranking to decide if do business with you or how you are cool, so you may buy some popunderrs just to keep your alexa ranking cool to show friends. Also if alexa ranking is n/a or 3 millionth, this could be an useful indicator that the site is really dead - but should also check compete.com , google trends and so alexa just one of a number of other tools - these data all together is meaningful.