Manipulating Alexa Traffic Rankings - Does it work?
Marketing, Alexa, Tips & Tricks, Search Engine Optimization, Blah Blah Blah, Technology June 20th, 2007[UPDATE 2007-07-18] In the past few weeks, I have been manipulate my Alexa Traffic Ranking with StumbleUpOn. My Alexa Traffic Ranking has since jumped to 207,742. You can read my newest update on Boost Alexa traffic ranking - Enough or not enough.
Since I started my new blog on June 1st. I post Increase page ranking with DIY marketing strategies on my site. I have continued researching, testing and manipulating Alexa Traffic Ranking. On June 11, I updated the Alexa traffic ranking status on Increase Alexa traffic ranking by 5 million points in 10 days - Just Stumble!. My Alexa traffic ranking went from 5.8 million points to 1.7 million points. That was interesting. I start believing that manipulating Alexa traffic rankings is as easy as social with friends and strangers online. Does it really work?
Now, it’s June 20th. Have I made any progress since June 11th? What is my current Alexa traffic ranking?
This is the historical Alexa traffic ranking of my blog.



As you can see my Alexa traffic ranking jump from nowhere into the 1M border. Now on June 20th, after my hard working and manipulating the Alexa traffic ranking, the ranking jump to 584,691.
So what have I done? And how much traffic I was getting in the past 20 days?

I really like that curve. Don’t you ? As you can see my traffic boosted since June 11th. Now, my question is this. Why my ranking did not jump as much as between June 1st and June 11th, since I have more traffic between June 11th and June 18th? I have heard people saying that the Alexa traffic rankings larger than 1 million are dead web sites. So I was lucky to be alive and get into the 1 millions web sites? I disagree. I have other web sites which have more traffic than this one. They all have Alexa Traffic Ranking greater than 2.2 millions.
As far as I can see, it’s getting harder and harder to get into the top 200K web sites on Alexa Traffic Ranking list. There are many web sites that have static traffic without manipulation. So you can only manipulate your traffic so far. With over a thousand viewer viewing my page, I have boosted my Alexa Traffic Ranking to 580K. Can I continue to boots my ranking to the next level? I doubt that I can get into top 100K, but I might get close to 200K.
After all this manipulation process, I can call it a success. It’s not very hard to manipulate Alexa traffic ranking at all. From this point on, I will have to change my strategies to boost my ranking again. Content become even more important to keep new viewer coming and existing viewer coming back.
So what have I done? If you read my previous posts. You should have some clues that I stumble a lot. I even have a trick that to stumble with Alexa traffic ranking the same time. The key is stumble, stumble and stumble with content relate to Alexa traffic ranking keywords. People will come and read it and you get traffic.
Increase Alexa traffic ranking with Alexa traffic ranking - a chain reaction to boost my web site traffic
StumbleUpOn + Alexa Traffic Ranking = Traffic Traffic Traffic
I don’t need people to install Alexa toolbar, it does the Alexa redirection for me. Well. many viewer will disagree the way I do it, but that is the point I am trying to make. You can manipulate your Alexa traffic ranking in such as ridiculous and stupid ways. People will follow and do it. Are they stupid? NO. It’s is because there are so many people want to get higher Alexa traffic ranking in order to get some benefit from it. They totally ignore the facts that Alexa traffic ranking won’t represent their true traffic. There are so many web site out there are making good profit without manipulate Alexa traffic ranking.
All I can say at this point is that I am really enjoyed the Alexa Traffic ranking game. I am prepared that my traffic ranking may drop next months, because I stop manipulation. What I will be focusing on is how to manipulate StumpleUpOn traffic to increase my real traffic with real quality content. I am not saying that I don’t write quality content now. I am trying to improve it as much as I can. I think I have found some pattern and tricks that StumbleUpOn generate the traffic. People review people’s web site and give them thumb up or review, but there is difference between how your viewer review your pages. That make difference in terms of traffic to your sites.
I will see what I come up with next months. It’s time to do something more important and useful.
Thank you for reading. Hope to see your face on my StumbleUpOn review page. Stumble Me!
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June 21st, 2007 at 7:33 am
Terence,
This is an interesting thing you started — I like it. I’m only somewhat familiar with Alexa (I mean, I know what it’s about and what it can be used for), and I’m very curious about a few things:
1) How do you get under Alexa’s radar screen? Do you have to sign up somewhere? Do you have to be in a certain directory?
2) Once you show up in Alexa’s rankings, does that bring you additional traffic? And is that traffic more meaningful than traffic you would get from, say, Google?
3) Do successful BLOGgers gain much from Alexa? Stella Roy? Yaro Starak? Darren Rowse? Emily Chang?
Again, I’m just curious because I haven’t worked with Alexa very much at all (other than research a few client web sites and some keywords from time to time).
If you have already written about any of this, would you mind pointing me to those specific articles?
Thanks much,
WebGyver
June 21st, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Nice move up in such little time. I guess I better start Stumblin’.
June 21st, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Derrich:
You should not worry too much. You have pretty good page ranking.
July 19th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Boost Alexa traffic ranking - Enough or not enough…
Even since I re-start my Blah Blah Blog, I decided to give it a boost hand. I have researched on many ways to increase my web site traffic since June 1st, 2007. I have also post many traffic booster related posts. Many of them actually brought in more …
August 14th, 2007 at 10:12 am
My site has made an almost identical jump with a similar strategy. I wasn’t doing it to raise alexa rankings, but it was a side benefit from the marketing I was doing. I also think the Firefox tool bar helped, since most of my visitors use FF.
I would suspect that some sites that have less technically savvy users will have a tougher time raising their ranking though
August 14th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
@the happy rock:
Thank you for stopping by. You got it right. The Alexa traffic ranking is the side effect. For me, Alexa traffic ranking is not that important, if you don’t run advertisement on your blog.