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Is there a way to block compete.com or alexa from getting the traffic on my website? For competitive reasons, I don’t want anyone knowing that info. I don’t have advertising, just a paid-only site….would blocking compete.com or alexa in anyway affect my search engine rankings?
As far as I know, Alexa and Compete.com both use user-installed toolbars that analyze what sites the user visits (similar to how TV Ratings are done; see e.g. the Wikipedia article on the Alexa Toolbar). They do not fetch your traffic numbers as such; they estimate their own.
To mess with their counting process, you would have to block users with the Alexa Toolbar installed. While that may be possible, it’s foolish in the extreme: You would be locking out innocent users, and decrease your Alexa ratings, which wouldn’t affect them in the slightest.