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I am interested in buying a website which has a great Alexa rank, but when checking on entourank.com, all of his scores are pretty bad.
Is it possible to have such a high trafficked website with no Facebook or twitter mentions?

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Different public scores measure different signals, so disagreements are normal. Alexa’s Traffic Rank was an experimental, panel-style popularity estimate (drawn from browser extensions and installed site scripts) and is now a legacy metric — the public Alexa.com service was retired in 2022. Entourank was a separate third‑party tool that indexed visible social mentions and produced a 0–10 social score. A site can therefore rank well on a popularity leaderboard while showing few public social mentions (search, direct, email campaigns or private-group shares can supply lots of traffic without public social signals). (en.wikipedia.org)

Concrete, verifiable checks are the only safe way to value a purchase. Ask the seller for server-side evidence you can audit: raw access logs (Apache/Nginx) covering recent months, hosting/visitor summaries (AWStats/Webalizer/cPanel), and publisher/ad/affiliate payment records or invoices. Professional brokers and due‑diligence guides recommend comparing multiple sources (raw logs, host stats, and publisher dashboards) rather than relying on a public rank alone. (thewebsiteflip.com)

Know the common red flags: extremely high pageviews but tiny unique‑visitor counts; traffic concentrated in one IP, ASN, or country; identical or repeating user‑agents; sudden short spikes with near‑zero session time; and referral‑spam patterns. Use log samples and bot‑detection signals/services to spot scripted or data‑center traffic before assigning value. (noise.getoto.net)

This builds on ’s and ’s points about not trusting a single public metric and about trusting real analytics — insist on raw logs and revenue proof before buying. If the seller can’t provide verifiable server data and payment records, treat any public Alexa/Entourank scores as weak signals, not proof of sustainable traffic.

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I've never even heard of entourank, to be honest, and I put absolutely no faith in Alexa. Nowadays, I will check out Quantcast rankings for sites that have been Quantified, but other than that, I would recommend that you ask to see Google Analytics data before making a website purchase. Google Analytics will give you social activity now, so you should be able to get the complete picture.

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What the analytics says.You can trust analytics data.

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