Alexa redirects works!
You know the Alexa redirect technique that uses a URL like
http://redirect.Alexa.com/redirect?www.andrewooi.com
It’s just a theory of mine and I don’t have solid proof. But ever since Alexa killed the redirect feature, my own Alexa ranking has been dropping badly.
Last year was a different story. My home page in my browser is an Alexa redirect to AndrewOoi.com. Even though I have little traffic for this blog my Alexa was steadily improving almost weekly.
Fried beef once commented on my blog about how the redirect technique does not work. I have to take the opposite stance.
My Alexa rank was around 160K in November last year. Today it has fallen to 275K.
Ah.. that’s possibly the highest Alexa rank I’ll ever get 
Anyway, it’s probably a good thing that this gaming technique is already taken out of the equation and Alexa rank becomes a wee bit more relevant.
Update: Just read Dosh Dosh article on 20 quick ways to increase your Alexa rank that I should put in the Alexa widget. I’ve added it to my sidebar.
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March 18th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Andrew, I also have the same problem. My Ohmyweird.com blog last year stay below 100,000 on Alexa. The weird thing is even my traffic has increase double but, my Alexa rank has fallen lately. Damn!
March 18th, 2008 at 8:36 am
That’s true Andrew. My traffic for http://megafitzone.com falls from an average of 200k to 600k. I wish I can see again the traffic of 200k again
March 18th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Andrew,thank you for your sharing.
March 18th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
@rohaizad, i have’t problem with my alexa rank. Grow up traffic and your ALExa rank will be better.
March 19th, 2008 at 1:57 am
erm.. I never use redirect alexa rank… but I got download the Alexa tool to view all the ranking of the websites.
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
If you depend on link or site selling as a form of monetization you’ll definitely want to increase your Alexa rank, because it’ll increase your bargaining power when it comes to ad pricing.
April 11th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Yes good point. A good Alexa ranking also gives your site a higher price on paid post listings.