Useless Ways to Juice Your Alexa Rank.
There are lots of ineffective ways to increase your Alexa, Google or Technorati rank. One of the worst is this: Hop on a link train when there are more than 10 people already on the train.
Seriously.
What’s link train, you ask? Well, a link train is a sort of the blog equivalent of a chain letter. We can see how they typically work by examining the “Alexa Redirect Train” described at The Pay Per Post Forum and then generalizing.
Here’s what happens:
1. Someone dreams up an idea for a train and announces it.
2. That person thinks up a list of rules for the link train, and writes them up, invites you to join the train and post about it- being sure to copy the rules.
I edited the list of rules on the PayPerPost site to create a typical list of rules. I’ve also inserted my comments in italics. Here goes, typical rules:
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