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Alexa auto surf may work for new sites with very low Alexa ranking and no page rank. Using any auto-surf is considered a black hat technique and penalize by search engine like Google, specially if you are showing AdSense ads on the site.
If you notice, many of the website that offers auto-surf services have a little or no page rank. If you check its Alexa ranking you will see that it is over the 1.000.000. So, do you believe this could help your website?
Alexa auto surf users complain that they are experiencing a drop in Alexa ranking after the initial increase. Since the number...
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There are two easy ways to start using Alexa. If you are using Internet Explorer, visit this page and download the Alexa Toolbar.
If you’re using Firefox, download the SearchStatus extension which displays the Alexa Rank, Google PageRank as well as other useful features.
It is highly recommended that you use Firefox and SearchStatus instead...
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Some webmasters ensure that using a widget helps improving your Alexa rank because it would load with each page view and no matter whether your visitors have the toolbar/plugin installed or not. A widget would supply traffic data for Alexa to calculate your ranking.
Others webmasters says that widget does not help ranking. In fact, the Alexa website itself says traffic rankings come from the toolbar and never mentions the widget as a source of information. There are many bloggers and website authors who dispute this information.
However, I check it out myself to see who is right....
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The Alexa Toolbar is an application produced by Alexa Internet, is a Browser Helper Object for Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows that is used by Alexa to measure website statistics. It includes a popup blocker, a search engine entry box, a link to Amazon.com, a link to Alexa, information about the current Alexa ranking of the website that the user is visiting, and links relevant to the site the user is browsing. By early 2005 there had been over 10 million downloads of the toolbar, according to Alexa. But the company does not provide info on how many of them are actually used. According...
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Alexa ranking is not accurate, and can be manipulated. Alexa data is based on a statistical sample consisting of website users who have downloaded the Alexa Toolbar. Alexa provides reach rank data for the day, previous week, and previous three months.
Alexa does not provide information about their total population of toolbar users, but an analysis of Alexa data reveals this information by other means. Many Alexa users are webmasters and marketing junkies. They install it on their own systems, and their own heavy use of their own pages causes their Alexa page rank to rise.
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