2008-4
29

Alexa tool

Category: Alexa | Comments Off

Alexa is a very powerful tool for ranking web site traffic. You can easily check your rating by going to Alexa site at www.alexa.com. The lower the Alexa ranking number the more heavily visited the site, for example, google ranks No2, yahoo.com – No1.

The more visitors to your site the more accurate the Alexa rank.

What to do to check your ranking:

  1. Go to alexa.com
  2. type in your website address (e.g. www.example.com or example.com)
  3. Click on the traffic chart

2008-4
24

Manipulating Alexa Traffic Rankings

Category: Alexa cheat | Comments Off

Every webmaster knows that Alexa rankings can be gamed. It is particularly tempting when you want to sell an advertising space or your website. There are a lot of things that you can do, but all of them are very questionable and unethical. This is the reason why you should avoid this type of practices. If you write a good content the traffic will come on its own, without any additional help.

For those who want to break the rules and are desparately looking forward to being banned by Alexa, here is the trick:

  1. install the Alexa toolbar into your browser.
  2. Create a special page that contains a JavaScript array of webpage addresses from your site. Then create a JavaScript function that loops through the array and opens each address into a separate browser window. Use the “timer()” function for a random interval of time between 5 and 45 seconds. Make sure that when the function reaches the end of the array of addresses it loops back to the beginning.
  3. Periodically set the script to action in your browser with the Alexa toolbar and let it run.

Here is the script:

<html>
<head><title>Reload</title>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”JavaScript1.2″ type=”text/javascript”><!–
function reload(){
var strI=document.stored.Arrayvalue.value;
var str = new Array(20);
// insert target URLs between quote marks in array items below.
// To add or remove the total number items in the array, add
// lines to or remove lines from the array below and
// modify the number in “Array()” above and “strI” below to
// be one greater than the last “str[]” value below.
str[1] = “”;
str[2] = “”;
str[3] = “”;
str[4] = “”;
str[5] = “”;
str[6] = “”;
str[7] = “”;
str[8] = “”;
str[9] = “”;
str[10] = “”;
str[11] = “”;
str[12] = “”;
str[13] = “”;
str[14] = “”;
str[15] = “”;
str[16] = “”;
str[17] = “”;
str[18] = “”;
str[19] = “”;

if( strI==20){
strI=1;
}
else{
URL=str[strI];
window.open(URL,’EC’);
strI++;
}
document.stored.Arrayvalue.value= strI;
var intNumber=Math.round(Math.random()*45000);
if(intNumber<5000){intNumber=intNumber+5000;}
setTimeout(“reload()”,intNumber);
}

//–>
</script>
</head><body onload=”reload();”>
<form name=”stored”><input type=”Text” name=”Arrayvalue” value=”1″></form>
</body></html>