The sense of the merit system has already been sufficiently discussed in the whole forum and therefore I will not comment on it. But what I am asking myself now is, how important is the Alexa rank and if it is important, how can we increase it?
The alexa rank helps you to know how good your site is performing in bringing traffic, So the importance of Alexa rank is to know if your site is doing well or not within the past 90 days.
But perhaps that is not the main goal of this forum...
When I type "bitcoin forum" in a search engine like duckduckgo, then voila, I get bitcointalk.org as the first entry. With startpage it is the fourth entry. Sounds very good to me.
What would a 1st place at Alexa Traffic do better?
(Alexa Traffic has nothing to do with Alexa from Amazon, does it?)