Thursday, October 01, 2009

In toolbar reviews

Since adding the ability to review websites back to Alexa.com, the response has been phenomenal. Reviews are a great way to share your experiences with a site, both good and bad, with others across the web. Now, with the latest release of the Alexa Toolbar, you can do in-toolbar reviews of websites.


Previously with the toolbar, if you decided you wanted to review a website from the toolbar, you clicked the five stars rating button. The button would send you to the Alexa website, where you could read the reviews people have written as well as write one of your own. This works fine, but what if you want to write a review without leaving the site you are on? Well, now you can do that too.

In the current version of the toolbar you will see a little clipboard icon next to the five star rating button. If you click the clipboard and are logged in, either with an Alexa account or through Facebook Connect, a window will appear and you will be able to write a review right there. If you are not logged in, or need to register for an account, then you will be prompted to do so before being able to write a review. The Alexa Toolbar makes reviewing websites all that much easier.