Alexa Redirection Not Working
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For some time, I’ve been reading and using the Alexa redirect machine. Basically, if you use http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?blowitoutyourpiehole.com to link to this site, it will count to Alexa as a hit to add to your Alexa ranking. It’s a neat way of getting an Alexa hit if you don’t have any Alexa widgets on your site or get visited by a spider or someone who doesn’t have javascript turned on. Whether the ranking is accurate or not is not a matter for discussion here.
I just posted a link over at the new Blondeee Blog and used the Alexa redirect, and it’s now a big fat 404 error. Now if the Alexa redirect machine is just having a temporary down time, it shouldn’t affect much, assuming that the Google and Yahoo! engines don’t start wiping their databases of the pages.
If Alexa has turned this off permanently, it will seriously drop page rankings and incoming links across the globe. If anyone used this for their adsense target, bad things worldwide will happen.
I don’t see anything out in the blogosphere about this, so maybe it’s just a temporary outage or it’s just a load balancing server issue. Maybe, just maybe, blowitoutyourpiehole.com has a jump ahead on the rest.
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I recently noticed that too. I took it off my links as I want people to get where they want to go.
Alexa computes traffic rankings by analyzing the Web usage of millions of Alexa Toolbar users. Google rank web pages according to its popularity and importance based on inbound. Both have their own significance.
I installed alexa toolbar & widegt but no result see http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=www.fortunehotels.in ranking of my website here.