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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I was re-reading a great post at DoshDosh about increasing your Alexa rank, specifically the part about Alexa redirects, and it hit me. I could combine this with SiteShuffle to quickly boost my sites’ Alexa rankings!

Let me explain…

Using an Alexa redirect would be using a link like http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.internetmarketingsucks.com instead of just http://www.internetmarketingsucks.com. Each time someone clicks on that redirect, it will go to my website just like normal, but the visit will count towards a better Alexa rank.

I wanted to make a list of places I could use those redirects, and the first place I thought would be forum signature links. Then I considered it for my internal site linking structure, but I don’t know if I want to go that far. But then I realized it fits in nicely with SiteShuffle.

From now on, when I add a site to my SiteShuffle home page, I’ll use an Alexa redirect link. Then I can visit my SiteShuffle homepage and visit all those links quickly and easily, increasing my Alexa rank overnight!

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