Skyrocket Alexa: A Fun Experiment
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 began one of two experiments. If Matt’s “image is enough” theory is correct, and you join me, we can all end up with awesome improvements in our Alexa ranks in a week! So as not to risk adversely affecting Alexa’s servers to function, I plan to add only the first 10 bloggers who join. (I figure 10 blogs is a drop in the bucket compared to the number of blogs with Alexa widgets in their footers! At the same time, it’s enough blogs to let us know for certain whether the image redirection works.) If you’d like to play, here are the three steps to take: After you paste the code, this will display in your footer: If you can’t create your own image, just download my lime green 3px x 3px image: . ( I’ve enlarged it to make easy to click. The URL is: Assuming this works, as soon as I slap your image into the file, your Alexa rank should begin to be boosted by visits to all three of my blogs; mine will be boosted by yours. See the beauty in this? Anyway, I encourage you to join in any time. To get the largest boost, tell your friends to join: If we can get 10 blogs and watch the Alexa ranks at all 10, I think we’ll really learn something!
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Update: The experiment was modified, completed, and the results are reported in Alexa Test: Redirecting jpegs does NOT work. Other articles on Alexa boosting appear in Alexa Articles.
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It’s worth a shot, right?
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Yep! Either it will work, or it won’t. And it’s much easier than an Alexa link train!
Sounds like a worthy experiment but alexa is really something I use to tell me how my site is growing so the stats it would give me would be false after using that gimic
Hope I’m not too late. The frame is at the foot of the page (just under the MyBlogLog widget).
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Let’s find out what happens shall we.
BTW please have a look at your spam log - my post from before got eaten.
Matt- your image is up. You are the one person I would have exceeded the limit of 10 for. I was tempted add your “Alexa test” image pro-actively, but I hadn’t asked permission, and I didn’t want to presume!
Sorry for being slow, but what benefit is it you hope to gain from this trick?
On reflection I would not have minded your proactively adding my “big” image however it might of made the look and feel of the iframe seem a bit… odd. Also it might have impacted on page load times ever so slightly. Thank you for thinking about me.
Andy,
I don’t plan to benefit directly from improved Alexa ranks. My main goals are:
1) To find out if the trick really works.
2) Publicize it if it does.
I want to do this publicly instead of privately because Alexa is used by services like PPP and ReviewMe to set prices for ads. When there is secret knowledge of how to gain Alexa, ‘in the know’ publishers are able to gain the system and rip off Advertisers particularly the smaller ones.
By making knowledge public, on a blog, where the information is indexed by Google, there is some hope that advertisers including the smaller ones, will learn that Alexa is seriously flawed, totally gamed, and stop using it.
Though this puts no money in my pocket, I consider it a benefit to me.
To all: Karen of PPP doesn’t like this idea at all. If you are a postie, you may wish to drop out quickly. I can remove your image immediately and you should yank the code from your footer.
I’ll be interrupting the html file until tomorrow morning to protect those who may not be reading email. Then, I will edit and reinstate.
Please leave my blogs in the experiment.
I see no problem in trying something new. As I am a blogspot blogger, it will show whether my blogs reside on the same server as pictures on my blog.
If PPP feels they need to ban, bench or fire me, one of the founding members, for this, I will live.
Turn it on girl and lets see something happen. BTW, do not miss the meteors tomorrow night (9 pm to 4 am).
This seems interesting. I think I missed it though.
I’d like to try bit tired now though, have I missed the opportunity?
Hi Stubsy- I had to step back and re-design due to some issues. I’ll blog about the issues tomorrow. Meanwhile, you can watch!
I plan to do test of other rumored exploits, and I may need volunteers then too!
I have deleted the Iframes from my sites. PPP came down hard today on anyone that might participate.
Did you get any data over the weekend?
The early data is ambiguous because the images ran 1/2 one day and 1/2 another. But I restarted. I went out and bought a domain just to get a totally zero traffic domain to sort of set up as a “flare”. It will give really clean results. Plus, with both Lord Matt and me together, we’ll get enough data.
I’m going to post about the PPP issue tomorrow. (Nothing dramatic. But, I’m all for transparency and as long as I’m doing all these test, I want to publicly describe my current status with companies that use Alexa to set prices!)
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Sounds like a very promising and interesting Alexa experiment. Will try to replicate that Alexa next week. Great story. Keep it up.
John, The experiment is over. Redirected .jpegs doesn’t work!
very interesting. There is a big difference in having a 1 million Alexa ranking and a 100.000 ranking. Good job. Will try this out myself and report back.
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