Give me a site and pay me good enough and in three months I will have it in the top 5000 of alexa rankings.
Here are just a few articles on the uselessness of Alexa rankings.
http://www.davidgalbraith.org/archives/001165.html
http://www.seologs.com/how-accurate-is-alexa-rank/
http://www.e-consultancy.com/forum/101280-how-accurate-is-alexa-for-traffic-measurement.html
You can find hundreds of more doing a search on google.
Sites which get REAL traffic dont need the false sense of security a useless alexa ranking provides. On the other hand if youre not getting that much REAL traffic, doing what you can to boost your alexa rank might be of some use. :3eyes:
Again, the current system is very flawed due to the average internet user is does not have the toolbar installed. Webmasters might though, maybe that explains why your traffic stats and your alexa metrics are similar. Possibly a lot of webmasters are over at your place stripping content giving a hit to both your stats and one to your alexa rankings. 