Help with the Alexa Test
Inspired by this thread - Shock for Alexa Lovers
I tend to think top 10,000 Alexa ratings have some value, but I've honestly never tried to fake or manipulate the Alexa rating so I'm not sure how accurate my assumption is.
I decided the easiest way to find out would be to set up a brand new page on a brand new domain and see how easy it is to tweak. I don't think it's possible to "fake" your way into the top 5,000 - but I could be wrong. I'm going to try and do it using every method I can think of.
Do you know of ways to manipulate Alexa? Post them here and I'll try them all on www.alexatest.com. Anything goes:-)
I tend to think top 10,000 Alexa ratings have some value, but I've honestly never tried to fake or manipulate the Alexa rating so I'm not sure how accurate my assumption is.
I decided the easiest way to find out would be to set up a brand new page on a brand new domain and see how easy it is to tweak. I don't think it's possible to "fake" your way into the top 5,000 - but I could be wrong. I'm going to try and do it using every method I can think of.
Do you know of ways to manipulate Alexa? Post them here and I'll try them all on www.alexatest.com. Anything goes:-)
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Try downloading the toolbar and visiting your site everyday from the same computer with the toolbar on it. I am pretty sure that alone will give you below 100,000. Most people are not even aware of alexa and its toolbar so I think the data they gather is not completely accurate anyway besides all the fakers! Not too many I know of would hire or reject a company based solely on their alexa rating. I noticed they got their PR back this time around and even boosted it one point!
I installed the toolbar on one of my pc's - doing that among other things.
This test isn't really about proving anything, it's just for fun.
I will visit a few times, I will also try a booster have you plenty of bandwidth? I honestly can't see a rank of 5000 by december but we will see
installing alexa on your PC and surfing/refreshing your site alone will give you a rank in the top 100,000. not sure if top5000 is realistic though
Plenty of bandwidth - no concern there. I've been using some of the "alexa boosting" products as well.
Is a 5,000 or less rating possible? Doubtful, but it gives something to aim for.
I think 5000 is possible if at least 20 people are using the toolbar,and are visiting the site regularly,but I don't think it can happen by the date that has been set.
GuyFromChicago any chance of letting us know how many page views you are getting? possibly next to the rank you have done on the home page
I'm thinking we will need 20.000 page views to get 5000 Alexa rank
I added the total page views to the page, along with a link to this post.
I'm visiting the site with the toolbar, running Alexa Boost type products every here and there and have asked a couple friends to install the toolbar and visit the site.
As I said before, I don't think it's possible to "fake" decent (under 10K) ranks but a lot of people say it's "easy". This is their chance to show everyone just how easy it is;-)
Thanks for your help everyone!
I don't really get how you have only 2000 page views I'm giving that roughly a day by myself!
where you getting the stats from?
Stats are being pulled from AwStats.
Alexa has a tool which shows your visits the actual (live) three-month ranking of the site. I added this to a free site which I run for my high-school alumni (wxhs.com). I added the text two weeks ago and you can see from my details stats that it's going to take me from about 280k to 100k in a couple months time.
Alexa I guess assumes that for so many people that visit a site XX number probably have data being sent back to them from toolbars, etc... from what I've seen, this little badge gives them 100% feedback about how many visitors I have and it's helping me.
You should be able to quickly tell whether it's hurting or helping you with a couple of days worth of stats.
post this code on the site (with #'s removed):
<#S#C#R#I#P#T type='text/javascript' language='JavaScript' src='http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/t/a?amzn_id=httwwwwxhcom&url=www.alexatest.com'><#/#S#C#R#I#P#T>
Dude, you're going to have to be a lot more serious about this project if you expect to break 100,000!
Get some free publicity, post things on blogs, forums, etc!
Get the tracker put on the site!
Ask people to link up!
Get moving!
I'm not really trying to do anything here - this was a "test" for anyone who thought Alexa was so easy to manipulate.
From what I've seen so far it's not...and no one else has stepped up and proved me wrong:-)
I have done it quite easily and I had posted on that thread it was so easy I just got bored with it and I never check Alexa rankings anymore...
Clues...
They dont track uniques it is just a glorified hit counter...
Your meta refresh suggestion was used Nov 8 - 11. Didn't seem to do much of anything...but I just put it back on the page to be sure. I'll leave it going for a few days and see what happens.
Hey,
You might remember me, I'm lappy512.
http://www.theforumzone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1702
Anyways, search on alexa for zer0host.com, used to be a very big forum-post free host where I was hosted. I made a forum on there, and I had around 5 users with the alexa toolbar that time. We got zer0host into the top 20,000, just by visiting and posting in a tight-knit community for a month or so, all using the Alexa toolbar. Then we used firefox...
BTW, it said we made up around 94% of zer0host's traffic, although we were nowhere near their main forum (they had around 100k posts in their main forum, in less than 4 months, we had 2-4k posts in 2 months)
Forgot to mention to go into the two year view.
Our current forums are at forums.krazyletter.com :)
http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/
Also might want to check out autoit, you can have it press f5 a bunch of times, much more than your meta refresh can.
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