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Posted By: DoshDosh 366 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://awis.blogspot.com)
Category: Web Analytics
There are the blogs that tell you to put one of our Alexa Widgets on your site. They all claim that your rank will improve dramatically. But, of course, it doesn't work. That would be ridiculous, right? But you wouldn't know that if you read these blogs.
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from jonathan 363 days ago #
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I've been trying this for about 2 months now and my ranking has gotten better by nearly 50,000 -- I'm in the lower 70,000 range right now where I used to be in the 120,000 range.

Adding the widget really does help with your Alexa ranking -- if you really care that much about it.

At the end of the day, all I care about is that traffic that I'm getting.

from graywolf 363 days ago #
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umm sorry I'm calling BS on this as well, there are definitely ways to game alexa rank, and adding the widget definitely has an affect.

from lucia 362 days ago #
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Well, I can say one thing about that post. It brought me a lot of traffic from people trying to improve there Alexa rank! :)

But seriously, did Geoffrey even read the blog posts he commented on? I have by avatar on my blog and I honestly don't think I look like a "he". Plus, the post said redirecting images was rumored to work so I wanted to test it. (The experiment was done: redirecting images doesn't work.)

Alexa is a pathologically inaccurate traffic measuring tool. Some of the rumored methods of improving one's rank don't work, but there are well known methods to exploit the rank.

Fortunately, PPP will soon rely on their own inhouse traffic measurements. I suspect other companies will follow. Advertisers want *real* traffic data, not "Alexa" traffic data.


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