Skyrocket Alexa: A Fun Experiment

Posted on August 9, 2007 - Filed Under Alexa, Rankings | 29 Comments

Let’s all use the trick Lord Matt seems to have found for boosting Alexa Rank! Matt has two theories about how to game Alexa. One is that it’s sufficient to redirect a beacon image through Alexa to get rank.
See the blue line shooting up? That’s Matt’s Alexa reach surging on the day he […]

The John Chow Effect: Does it kill young blogs?

Posted on July 18, 2007 - Filed Under Link Building, JohnChow, Links, Traffic, Alexa, Rankings | 10 Comments

Are you a fresh new blogger who has wondered whether you could kick start your blog by paying John Chow to review you? Based on the history of two blogs he reviewed in December 2006 and February 2007 — which died- I’d advise against it.

Both Pubincome.com and Allenation.com, now dead, were reviewed by […]

Alexa: Only off by a factor of 20,000!?

Posted on June 20, 2007 - Filed Under Traffic, Alexa, Rankings | 5 Comments

I knew Alexa traffic ranks were woefully inaccurate. We knew they were biased toward blogs and sites about SEO, marketing and monetizing. But only today did I realize just how pathetic Alexa’s rankings are. Today, I realized the biases are astronomical.

In fact, if you rely on Alexa to compare the relative […]