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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