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One of the easiest ways to bring web traffic to a website is to build community sites, be it a free community forum, a website directory or an article website. “You get what you pay for” does not hold good in today’s date when Open Source has brought so many amazing free softwares, free CMS, free themes, free web icons and so much more. Name it and you can avail some of the most valuable resources online for free.

Forums-Free.com is a free forum hosting service that has been increasingly generating more visitors and registered users, with current stats reading 7,946 on Alexa. You may have heard of web hosting services, but what exactly is a forum …

Since Alexa made changes to their ranking algorithm, headsetoptions.org dropped off the top 100K for over 3 months (we are back now), which has not been the case since we started some 20 months ago. The best score for our site was 36K, and on average was around 60K, now we are at around 90K. The drop in the ranking trend was similar to most all technology bloggers; even sites like TechCrunch lost out on the ranking game and were pushed back.

Of course it had no implication on traffic to the sites, but it makes a hell of a lot of difference to folks who rely on such free stats services to invest their advertising dollars, which begs the questions, is Alexa a true representation of reality? Is there a free online tool which is closer to the truth?