Sky Rocket Alexa: Take Two!
The Skyrocket Alexa Experiment was paused due to issues which I will discuss later. Meanwhile, I am resuming it. The good news is the new test will be more definitive than the one I planned initially.
Meanwhile, this post is mostly designed to get Lord Matt the new footer code assuming he still wants to participate. I could email it to him… but why do that when I can use this as an excuse to also explain how we will “know” whether or not showing redirected images can be used to game alexa ranks.
Instructions for Lord Matt
If you still want to pay, paste the following code into your blog footer:
How will we know if the exploit works?
I have placed images on two blogs at www.thedietdiary.com, a blog on money.bigbucksblogger.com and one on a new, zero traffic domain called “rankexploits.com”. LordMatt has an image placed on Lord Matt’s Blog.
If the redirected image do pass Alexa rank, and Lord Matt and I both place these in our footer we should see this:
- Evidence that only suggests it works:
The daily reaches and ranks for all three domains should increase noticeably within a week. Because money.bigbucksblogger.com and lordmatt.co.uk already get sufficient traffic, we should be able to view graphs and see the ranks shoot up. We can also read numbers. (Note: If Lord Matt doesn’t see this post, his rank and reach will exceed mine.) - Evidence that is pretty convincing:
The daily reaches and ranks for all three sites will approach each other and all will eventually look identical to each other. There could be small differences because some parts of some domain don’t show the image, but three domains with nearly identical, high, Alexa’s would be fairly convincing to most people. - Clear and convincing evidence:
The signal from “rankexploits.com” will nearly identical to all the other three when in reality, it should be absolutely zero. I have set .htaccess so the only way that domain can get traffic only through referrers on my domains and LordMatt’s domain. So, there will be zero Alexa traffic.If the exploit works, Alexa will show a high daily and weekly rank; if it doesn’t work, Alexa will correctly report zero traffic.
If this doesn’t work, then what?
Well, we all know Alexa is wretched even this exploit doesn’t work. After all, if it worked, my knitting blog would dramatically outrank this blog! Alexa is biased toward sites that interest SEO / IT / Advertising and / Blog about blogging types. That doesn’t include knitting!
Still, what I’m trying to test are rumored intentional exploits. So, if this works, it will demonstrate publically that this rumored exploit doesn’t work. (I consider public proof important, even if some people tell us they have demonstrated this doesn’t work, privately to themselves and we should all believe them even though they won’t show us the results. )
That said, if this particular exploit doesn’t work, I will set about testing other rumored exploits discussed on various forums I have visited. I’m fairly confident I’ll eventually find one that works. 
Related Posts:
- Alexa Network: Cooperative Exploit.
- Alexa Experiment and Paid Posting
- Big Bucks Blogger Alexa < 100,000
- PPP & Argus: Great Leap Forward
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Of course I will see it, I must open your site at least three time a day these days as it is rapidly becoming a favourate read of mine.
It will be interesting to see if this exploit works.