Alexa Game: You Visit, I Visit
Is your Alexa rank in the toilet? Even though you have traffic? Well, now, if you have friends, and a Wordpress blog, you can fix that! Using the new You Visit, I Visit plugin which is developed to overcome the two short comings with other Alexa projects. There are:
- People get busy and forget to visit the “links” hub where they open all t heir friend’s blog pages.
- Reliable people feel ripped off when they visit people who don’t return visits.
This plugin fixes that by a) creating an auto surf button at your own blog and b) preferentially visiting only people who visit you.
How do I use the plugin?
To use the You Visit, I Visit plugin do this:
- Find 5-10 friends with Wordpress blogs. (Or more, but read the cautions below.)
- Install the Alexa toolbar. (This is absolutely required or no one will get an Alexa boost. To read why, visit Alexa, cooperative exploit.
- Download the You Visit, I Visit plugin. Unzip, upload to your plugin folder, activate. Get your friends to do the same.
- Visit your Wordpress “Options” screen by clicking the word “Options” in the light blue portion of your Wordpress control panel. Now, click “YouVisit, I Visit” in dark blue portion of the menu panel- I outlined the correct button in red below. Now, click that.
- A screen will open; the screen will looks as show in the image above. Enter your friends blog addresses in the “entry part”. The blog address is required, their names and emails are optional.
As you enter each name, you will see their addresses appear in the panel below. If you ever wish to delete a blog, you can click “delete”.
- Each time you do this, you will open some number of your friends blogs followed by a final visit to http://rankexploits.com, which is a test page that will help me verify and later show you that this really boost Alexa ranks. Now, close your blog window, or go back to admin. If you didn’t visit all your friends blogs, click the “Visit button” again, scroll down and visit more friends blogs.
- Now, from time to time, repeat this procedure. If you have 10 friends in your network, I’d advise auto surfing twice a day- once in the morning, once in the evening.
Visiting your 10-20 friends blogs about two times a day and getting return visits from friends about 2 times a day should be more than enough to help Alexa nicely. You’ll notice the progress over the course of 3 months.
Because of the way this is set up, I do advise that if you have 10 friends in the system, you should try to pay 20 visits a day.
What if my friends don’t visit me? 
Well, believe it or not, you’ll sort of stop visiting them; or rather, you won’t visit them very often. (And if you stop autosurfing to their blogs, they’ll stop visiting you!)
Once you’ve activated this plugin, Wordpress will detect referrers to your blog. It will compare the referrers to your friends blog addresses. When it sees a visit coming from a friend’s blog, it will credits that blog with a visit.
Wordpress will now decide you owe that particular friend a visit.
When you auto-surf, Wordpress will pullout some a random set of of blogs to visit from the list of blogs you owe visits to; the number of blogs it pulls out will also be random. (Alexa does try to detect automatic visits, and some degree of randomness will be helpful in the long rum.)
What if no one has visited you since the last time you autosurfed? Well, then Wordpress will pull out from your friends list. So, you return owed visits first, and then visit your friends. That way, you continue to help friends who got too busy to return visits, but you mostly visit people who visited you.
Can someone stuff my Wordpress and make me visit only them?
No. Friends can only reserve three return visits at a time. So, if someone visits you a billion times in a day and you haven’t returned any visits, Wordpress will decide you only owe them three visits. This is useful because Alexa only counts visits from one IP once a day. There is no point in you visiting them a billion times in one day or you trying to make them visit nobody but you.
Important Advice: Don’t get banned by Google!
Remember: there is no lying to yourself about this. This is visiting using a script. (So if using Linky to open a bunch of pages on a shared Alexa project page.)
If you, or your friends, get carried away with this or any auto surf method and you use Google Adsense to monetize, Google may get angry with you. Everyone knows that Google Adsense frowns on clickfraud; this isn’t click fraud so that’s not a concerns.
However, Google also genuinely dislikes like automatic page visits if they increase Google AdSense page impressions.
These are automatic page visits.
So, if you autovisit and also load the Google ads, you, and the sites you autovisit, will be violating Adsense TOS.
You know you don’t want to do this to yourself or friends. The TOS is a contractual obligation between you and Google. If you violate it, they will ban you to protect their own contractual obligations to advertisers.
But guess what?
But, there’s a way around this!
You can auto visit and totally avoid automatic page impressions!
Just use a Firefox browser and install “Stop Ad Block”, and block the ads from showing on your friend’s blogs. You can read how to do this here: Stop Ad Block tutorial.
Ask your friends a favor and make them use AdBlock Plus too.
Mind you, I deactivate “Stop Ad Block” when I’m surfing because I want to see where my ads appear on my pages. I also want to see where they appear on other people’s pages. But, if I auto-surfing, I turn Stop Ad Block on to avoid getting people in trouble with Google!
Next week, I’ll tell you a little more about AdBlock Plus and show you how to use it. Yes, this means I’m insane. After all, if it turns out you love the extension, that will mean you can’t see my ads.
But such is life. I write plugins. I explain plugins. AdBlock Plus is a good one, and I’m going to tell you about it! 
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- Skyrocket Alexa: A Fun Experiment
- Big Bucks Blogger Alexa < 100,000
- Alexa Network: Cooperative Exploit.
- Alexa Test: Redirecting jpegs does NOT work.
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Or just install the Alexa toolbar… It counts visits wherever you go, even to your own sites. Over time your ranking will shoot up.
Using the Alexa toolbar is essential. However, if you have a static IP address, you can only get one count a day to your site using the toolbar. (If you have a dynamic IP, you can get a credit each time you visit.)
So, we have the shortcoming of using Static IP.
But majority of the home user doesn’t use static IP. So we can get more than a count per day right?
Yes, Louiss. Based on what Alexa says, they count an IP visit to a domain once a day. So, that would suggest if you have a dynamic IP you can give yourself more than 1 “Alexa Visit” a day by visiting your own blog everytime your IP changes. (You can also give your friends extra visits!)
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What a great article, i would like to try this and see the effect on my alexa ranking. Thanks for the tips