Comments on: Better “Alexa Redirect” Plugin Homepage

By: Rize

Rize — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:48:31 +0000

i has put your plugin on my site..thanks

By: html kodları

html kodları — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:49:05 +0000

thanks

By: Kaloyan

Kaloyan — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:33:00 +0000

@Igor: ha, you are right ! I wonder why it is acting like that … when I have more time I’ll investigate this, and I’ll probably modify the plugin to do its magic only if IE is detected.

By: Igor

Igor — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:27:14 +0000

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>Redirect is not working any longer.
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sure ?

I think with firefox is redirect down.
with IE is redirect no problem.

Igor

By: Kaloyan

Kaloyan — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:28:50 +0000

@imam: didn’t you read what the note on top of the page said ? As of January 11th, 2008 the Alexa Redirect is not working any longer.

By: imam

imam — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:35:20 +0000

this code redirect cannot work…what must i do?

By: imam

imam — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:46:54 +0000

i has put your plugin on my site..thanks

By: Kaloyan

Kaloyan — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:17:37 +0000

@cape cod getaway: yeah, it seems Alexa pull the plug on the redirect thing.

By: cape cod getaway

cape cod getaway — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:37:50 +0000

the redirect still does not work,

By: Kaloyan

Kaloyan — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:00:21 +0000

As of today, it seems the Alexa Redirect is not working anymore.

By: Kaloyan

Kaloyan — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:41:08 +0000

@Nick: yeah, I explained everything on the wordpress support site

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:12:06 +0000

…oops… I just noticed to replied to my question in wordpress support about this. The problem was not with this plugin but that I didn’t notice I still had the original alexa redirect plugin still activated! Doh!

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:06:35 +0000

Hi,

I am having a big problem with uninstalling this plugin. I have deactivated and removed it, but my links are still being redirected… which is now causing all my links to lead to the 404 not found page for some reason.

Did I do the uninstall properly… or how can I fix this?

By: fedmich

fedmich — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:02:19 +0000

Thanks, will try this one now.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:15:45 +0000

As a note to webmasters trying to improve their Alexa ranking: Beware of using autosurfs or tiny pixel iframes because those could hurt you more in the long-run, since search engines may interpret them as blackhat SEO.

Does anyone know where the reviews section of site details on Alexa is located? I can’t seem to find it (I’m looking at Top 500 sites to leave my review on.)

Strange how my Alexa rank has been dropping steadily for a couple of years, even though traffic has been very steady: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.pointsincase.com

By: www.r10.net küresel ısınmaya hayır seo yarışması

www.r10.net küresel ısınmaya hayır seo yarışması — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:23:42 +0000

Nice plug-in, i am instaling thanks :)

By: spor dalları

spor dalları — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:03:49 +0000

thanks…

By: YAKICI

YAKICI — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:06:52 +0000

how is work this program pluging,please wrıte to me

By: Kaloyan

Kaloyan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:53:34 +0000

Here’s a post for a guy that get his Alexa Ranking Boosted: http://www.sherizan.com/blog/?p=103

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:59:11 +0000

Another data point. This isn’t definitive, of course, but here are my numbers. I’d been steadily increasing in rank from August through September due to a nice set of links in August, and my site growing. I hadn’t cracked the top 500,000 before August.

On September 18, I had peaked at about 108,000 and for the first time got excited about Alexa. I figured I’d install this and push into the top 100k easily. I installed Better Alexa Redirect on that day. I almost immediately saw a dropoff in my rank (down to 150,000) but attributed it to random fluctuations.

But I was at 185,000 about a week later, 250,000 two weeks later. And as of Oct. 16 (yesterday) I was down to 350,000. During that time, my traffic and incoming links stayed about the same as they’d been August-September.

I uninstalled the plugin yesterday, and my rank for yesterday is 79,564.

I can not say these results are conclusive, though, because I also did several others things that probably helped at the same time. I installed “All In One SEO Pack” (a plugin that optimizes page titles, descriptions, and keywords, and prevents duplicate content issues), and also a plugin that submits new sitemaps automatically, and added a “related posts” tool that nearly doubled my hits per user.

However, I think that a one day increase of 275,000 — from 350,000 to 80,000 — on the day I disabled this, after a month of slowly falling numbers, is pretty significant.

My best guess is that Alexa is discounting the hits generated this way. It’s probably just an algorithm that ignores *all* hits from a site if that site accounts for an unnatural percentage of the general Alexa hits. That’s my guess anyway.

It it works for you, cool. For me, I think — like most attempts to game this stuff — it just isn’t worth it. This is a well crafted plug-in though, and it does exactly what it says it does, I’m just not sure if it produces the results that are intended.

Bottom line: more data is needed. I wish I’d not have made any other changes when I took it off, but I did and I’m happy enough with the results that I don’t want to tinker with it further. I’d definitely be interested in seeing others’ experiences though.