Finally, Alexa decided to finish with redirections.
Some bloggers speculated that by making every link from their blog to be redirect through alexa site would help lower the alexa rank. There was no proof that this really worked, but many bloggers insisted in using it.
But, in the past days, alexa made every redirect to give a 404 error code.
I tottaly agree with this. I dindn’t like when i visited a blog and noticed that it was using the alexa redirect. Put your self on the eyes of a potential advertiser. You visit a blog, and see that it as a good alexa rank, but then you find it is using the famous redirect! What would you think? How fake is the rank?
Now the only way tha ti know to help decrease the alexa rank is using alexa toolbars: SearchStatus or Sparky
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I never used the Alexa redirects - I was worried what effect it would have with the links passing PageRank. Would the PageRank go to Alexa instead of my site? Having a better Alexa score would be offset by loss of PageRank - that’s no good!
Anyway, I’m glad Alexa seem to have abandoned this system. I do feel a bit sorry for all those people with links that won’t work anymore!
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hum… i never thought in that way. but maybe you got a point.
That is one more good reason to haven’t used it.