how does alexa rank work?

Rudyzplace · Dec 15, 2009

What's up friends?

Today's hot topic is Alexa

HOW in the world does it rank sites?

here is what I know:

1. no matter what they are stating the toolbar has nothing to do with the ranking algorithm.
2. Their rank is based on hits.
3. there are tools in the download section which all they do is hit your site and you gain rank.
4. my rank increases each time their crawler visits my sites.

Therefore I assume they have a way to hack/access site logs and read the hit amounts.

I already use advanced hitting tactics and my sites improves by 300k-500k points per day, silly ranking system...

now the main question is how in the world they access the logs to read the hit amounts??

verilix · Dec 15, 2009

1. no matter what they are stating the toolbar has nothing to do with the ranking algorithm.

Wrong. I worked 1 month on a website without the toolbar - Alexa, 7.6mil.

Worked 1 month on another website with the toolbar installed - Alexa 480k.

showbizvet · Dec 15, 2009

I had thought it was the tool bar, at least mainly, but I'm not an Alexa expert.

imperial109 · Dec 15, 2009

verilix said:
Wrong. I worked 1 month on a website without the toolbar - Alexa, 7.6mil.

Worked 1 month on another website with the toolbar installed - Alexa 480k.

Yea, they do the same thing g00gl.e does with its toolbar....hack its users

AlexNovakMillionaire · Dec 15, 2009

imperial109 said:
Yea, they do the same thing g00gl.e does with its toolbar....hack its users

But as long as they don't do anything harmful to ur computer.
what the hell? if if gives you a better ranking, then might as well use the toolbar

imperial109 · Dec 15, 2009

hmmh, that got me thinking....
If you have the G toolbar installed, then can they detect black hat tricks more easily?

Rudyzplace · Dec 16, 2009

verilix said:
Wrong. I worked 1 month on a website without the toolbar - Alexa, 7.6mil.

Worked 1 month on another website with the toolbar installed - Alexa 480k.

I'm telling you all I do is hit the site with a script and the Alexa rank goes up...
The server with the script has no toolbar.

They only raise ranks after the crawler visits.

imperial109 · Dec 17, 2009

Rudyzplace said:
I'm telling you all I do is hit the site with a script and the Alexa rank goes up...
The server with the script has no toolbar.

They only raise ranks after the crawler visits.

Can you expand on that? We'd like to know how you do with the script

lamm43 · Dec 17, 2009

Alexa has a toolbar, but also a script that you can put on your site to show the Alexa rank.

So maybe... use iMacros to visit your sites every few hours

Also Alexa also takes into account backlinks.

Just a few ideas.

spenzo · Dec 17, 2009

does reload every firefox plugin will work for alexa ranking ??

Rudyzplace · Dec 17, 2009

imperial109 said:
Can you expand on that? We'd like to know how you do with the script

Sure, build a script in php that hits your site (meaning downloads a page content or surfs to it) there are tools like "alexa booster" which will do it for you.

run it and you start hitting your site.
from that moment on your rank starts getting better. no toolbar involved nor alexa script in the browser or in the site's code - you don't even need a browser for doing it.

Alexa has a toolbar said:
iMacros[/B] to visit your sites every few hours

Also Alexa also takes into account backlinks.

Just a few ideas. ]

no toolbar or script involved man.
just hit the damn site download a picture or something, that's easy enough, or download your index.html page.

the easy way - get Alexa booster tool.

look in the download section or Google it.

spenzo · Dec 17, 2009

Alexa booster Tool in Download section ??? u mean this
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo/149830-how-does-alexa-rank-work.html

Rudyzplace · Dec 18, 2009

spenzo said:
Alexa booster Tool in Download section ??? u mean this
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo/149830-how-does-alexa-rank-work.html

I mean this:

http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...-super-alexabooster-full-1-03-3-4-update.html
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...per-alexabooster-full-1-10-video-how-use.html

have fun

Grandslam · Feb 6, 2010

Rudyzplace said:
1. no matter what they are stating the toolbar has nothing to do with the ranking algorithm.
2. Their rank is based on hits.
3. there are tools in the download section which all they do is hit your site and you gain rank.
4. my rank increases each time their crawler visits my sites.

Therefore I assume they have a way to hack/access site logs and read the hit amounts.

I already use advanced hitting tactics and my sites improves by 300k-500k points per day, silly ranking system...

now the main question is how in the world they access the logs to read the hit amounts??

So you're saying Alexa is committing fraud by lying to us in their toolbar description on alexa.com? Oh, they're hacking millions of sites too? Seems pretty unlikely in my book.

I have an alexa bot in my logs. I think its literally named alexabot. Not sure how a bot could read site logs?

Also, your theory doesn't account for the blatant trend that tech sites have a better ranking than non-tech sites even though their visitor count is lower. Why? Because techies are much more likely to have the alexa toolbar installed than people surfing perez hilton's blog.

how does alexa rank work?

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