Alexa Test: Redirecting jpegs does NOT work.

Posted on August 20, 2007 - Filed Under Alexa, Rankings | 6 Comments

The Skyrocket Alexa Test Version II results are in: you cannot increase your Alexa rank by getting friends to place redirected beacon images to your blog on their blog.
Alexa daily traffic graphs showing the effect of using Alexa redirected image beacons are now available. If the proposed image beacon exploit worked, we would […]

Alexa Experiment and Paid Posting

Posted on August 15, 2007 - Filed Under Traffic, Alexa, Rankings | 5 Comments

As my regular readers know, I am currently running public tests to see if rumored Alexa exploits work. Because Pay Per Post has discussed the issues surrounding my experiment twice, I want to also discuss my current view of Pay Per Post.

The short story is that, having given it some thought, […]

Sky Rocket Alexa: Take Two!

Posted on August 14, 2007 - Filed Under Traffic, Alexa, Rankings | 2 Comments

The Skyrocket Alexa Experiment was paused due to issues which I will discuss later. Meanwhile, I am resuming it. The good news is the new test will be more definitive than the one I planned initially.

Meanwhile, this post is mostly designed to get Lord Matt the new footer code assuming he still wants to […]