One Step to 50% Improved Alexa Ranking
Thursday, July 19, 2007 0:51I’m not necessarily a fan of Alexa Rankings, however, the folks who pay me (Text Link Ads) are and I want to make them happy so that they make me happy.
After searching far and wide about tips on how to improve your Alexa ranking the one tried and true measure I came across was using the Alexa Redirect to point people to your blog. Instead of posting your normal url in forums or on your email signature they suggested using “http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?” in front of your url to improve your ranking. However, branding your link with Alexa and redirect when someone is looking at your url is a major deterrent from getting them to click on the link. Instead, you want to use the redirect when the viewer isn’t checking exactly were the url is pointing because they are sure of were it is leading… internal links on your blog. I searched far and wide for a plugin that added the Alexa Redirect to all the internal links on a Wordpress blog, but I couldn’t find one, so I made my own. Here’s your one step to doubling your Alexa ranking:
The plugin will edit all of your internal blog links (except wp-admin related) to add the “Alexa Redirect” prefix. Basically what this does is sends your reader through Alexa and counts them as a visit, even if they don’t have the Alexa toolbar (which includes most of us, particularly my readers). It’s that simple. And since they are internal links it’s not likely they are going to be put off by the funky url, even if they do happen to look at it. So, what are you waiting for? Download it today!
7 Responses to “One Step to 50% Improved Alexa Ranking”
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Terence Chang says:
July 19th, 2007 at 1:20 am
Ariah:
Nice plugin. Great concept. However, I don’t know if it will impact the internal link ranking in the search engine. It’s nice to gain the Alexa Traffic ranking by redirect, but it might potential hurt the Google Page Ranking. googlbot will ignore the redirect as out site domain. So your internal page might be crawled.
It is very good concept.
Good works!
If you find out a way to do regular link but with a redirect as popup or something else, let me know. I would love to give it a try.
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Chris Merriman says:
July 19th, 2007 at 6:52 am
Interesting concept, though I do wonder how much search engine ranking/performance this may lose you. To clarify, good internal linking within your own site is supposed to help with Google, MSN etc. , however if all internal links have http://redirect etc. etc. in them, then you would lose this.
Another quick query, if you had the alexa widget installed on the site, all visitors would be counted, is there a reason you do not take this approach? If it is one of aesthetics, I would have thought that you could resize it to a 1×1 dimension box, though if Alexa discovered this, I’m not sure what their reaction would be.
Please don’t take this as being overly critical, or someone saying “You are wrong; I am right”, I am just genuinely interested in your thoughts on this matter.
ChrisM
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Kaloyan says:
August 19th, 2007 at 6:31 am
This plugin is no good, since it screws with your links, and in this way diminishing your Google ranking and search results. A better option is to make the Alexa redirecting JavaScript-powered: in this way the HTML will not be modified, and the redirects will still work. I’ve applied this technique to a new plugin called Better “Alexa Redirect” WordPress plugin. If you are interested about it, visit this URL to learn more about it:
http://kaloyan.info/blog/better-alexa-redirect-plugin/
or visit this page to download it:
http://wp-alexa-redirect.googlecode.com/