Jan
Alexa Redirects Are Gone – How Do We Exploit Alexa Now?!
Have you noticed that Alexa redirect links don’t work anymore?
A few days ago I launched a new niche site and, not liking the ~8 million Alexa rank, decided to hit it with an Alexa redirect (http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://www.manipulatealexarank.com) a few times. Normally that would have been enough to get the site to a more hospitable 1 or 2 million rank, but in this case it just gave me a 404 error!
Yes, the coveted Alexa redirect, commonly used to lower your Alexa rank, is no longer available. It won’t make much of a difference for me, but think about the people that based their internal navigation menus on Alexa redirect links! Their entire site navigation would have gone to shit!
I think the lesson here is not to be stupid and try tricks like that to manipulate something useless.
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The site widgets still *seem* to do a little something… but who knows for sure?
I thought the 404 error that I see in my site’s alexa redirected links is due to my theme. Now I know why the “Better Alexa Redirect” plugin no longer works.
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ur article is a valuable one thank u
There are actually techniques to lower your alexa ranking in the shortest time. However, it will be a problem maintaining it. – Rif Chia