Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Increase your Alexa's ranking by Alexa's redirect URL!


I think Maki Dosh is probably the first blogger who mention about the possibility of using Alexa's redirect URL to increase Alexa's ranking in 20 Quick Ways to increase your Alexa rank. Later, Matt Jones of Succesful Online Money Making expanded the idea and comed up with his Ultimate Alexa Redirect Experiment. In one part of Matt's experiment, he replaces his myBlogLog's community URL with the Alexa's redirect URL. This idea has been widely copied. Many myBlogLog's members, including myself, has replaced its community URL with Alexa's redirect URL.

Ever since then, many variations of the trick have been developed. One blog suggests bloggers to use Alexa's redirect URL for comments. This could increase your Alexa's ranking, but you should be awared of two issues. First, if you try to increase your page rank by commenting on "Do Follow" blogs, you will waste your effort. Second, some blogs award its frequent commentators with a top commentator's section. If you are using redirect URL, you will miss a chance to earn a valuable inbound link.

One blog suggests bloggers to use Alexa's redirect URL in directory sites, like DMOZ. DMOZ is a PR8 site. For me, giving up a valuable PR 8 link to increase Alexa's rank is simply not worth it.

Furthermore, if you have adsense on your blog, and 90% of your traffics are redirected from Alexa, will it raise a few eyebrows on Google? I don't know the answer, but it will be interested to know.

For people who are interested to use Alexa's redirect URL in myBlogLog. Here is the step:
1. Click "Edit Settings" in your myBlogLog's community.
2. Replace the Site URL with the redirect URL. For example:
my URL is: http://makemoneyonblog.blogspot.com
change it to
redirect URL: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://makemoneyonblog.blogspot.com

By the way, in Matt's experiment, Geoffrey from Alexa leave a comment sayng that using Alexa's redirect URL will have no effect on your Alexa's ranking. But like everyone else, I still use Alexa's redirect URL in my myBlogLog's community.

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks Johnny, great overview of the Alexa redirect. One 'do follow' comment doesn't that mean you are not wasting your time?

Anonymous said...

Will Alexa frown upon using the redirect URL as follows?

http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://cymru66.com

Hadn't thought of doing that before. Nice tip..

--Steve

Johnny Cash said...

Matt,

I mean if you use Alexa redirect URL to get an inbound link to your blog. You are wasting your effort becase the redirect URL is counted as a link to Alexa, not to your blog.

Johnny Cash said...

Thanks Steve.

Anonymous said...

I see what you mean, it isn't less productive to use the redirect on a 'do follow' commenting blog, but you don't get the inbound link.

thanks for explaining :)

Anonymous said...

I am also concerned about, will it affect google rankings or adsense if we use alexa redirect for the links in a website or blog?

regards

Once upon a lifetime in kerala

Anonymous said...

El redireccionamiento a través de alexa ha dejado de funcionar, Alexa Internet ha dicho que no soportarán mas esta característica. Mas información aqui.

Anonymous said...

For the record the alexa redirect hasn't worked for a year or more now.

Anonymous said...

sorry it doesn't work anymore, if you have other ideas or tips on Alexa inbound link building, please do share on your blog, love to read it.

Sulumits Retsambew said...

Can I use it on post title link of my blog?

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