Here is an extremely shitty American-based classifieds website, Inetgiant.com, that just happens to be the 2,222 most popular website in Pakistan and 4,678 most popular site in India. Please. This site is pathetic and so is the weak Alexa gaming they are attempting. All the cheating in the world isn’t going to help these losers.
Mobipocket sells ebooks for PDAs and Smartphones. All their books are seemingly English language, but only about a third of their traffic is coming from English speaking countries. Also, note the super long list of countries people are hitting their site from — very typical of the Alexa cheaters who have an array of toolbars setup on computers across the globe.
Cooltoad.com? The 1,472nd most popular website in the world? Nope. No way.
Cooltoad is your standard off the shelf web directory (you can probably get something comparable for $9.99 on hotscripts.com).
Here is how we know they are cheating to achieve this bogus rank. A true Alexa ranking of1,472 means Cooltoad has to be pulling in well over 50K unique users per day (and possibly more than 100K). Per day. Remember that…50K or more is quite a chunk. Now check out cooltoad.com one more time — does it look compelling enough for you to ever take a second glance? Of course not. It is a piece of shit website.
But what is this?? 75% of their traffic is from India, land of the Alexa Bots..
Compete.com says Cooltoad only gets 44,000 visits…per month! I’d almost consider that to be a stretch.
Sorry Cooltoad. Time to stop trying to fool whoever it is you think you need to fool.
Rextopia. Powerful affiliate marketing? In Chile and Mexico? Yeah…sure….
This company is out of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. They’ve got a glowing recommendation on their site from some ass named Rob Nicolosi, owner of a $20 templated website “bloosky interactive media.”
Looks like they stopped paying the Alexa client farm bill…and they are headed back down to nowhere land again. Good job…
Here’s a shit site if I’ve ever seen one - designed solely to generate hits from spamming into Alexa’s movers and shakers and bomb unsuspecting fools with shitty full-page takeover ads and Google adsense. Ranked 5,045. Sure….Here you go…
Rapidsafe.net users come from these countries:
Turkey8.7%
United States8.7%
Slovakia8.0%
Philippines7.4%
Czech Republic6.0%
Good job Alexa…banish this POS site.
Here is today’s Alexa cheater: FreeFamilyHealth.com — a site with some random recipes, a few videos, lots of stock photography, poor design, and absolutely nothing of significant interest. Yet it is one of the top 10,000 sites on the web? I don’t think so.
8.3% of your visitors from Vietnam? 6.5% from India? Only 11.1% from the United States? Give me a break.
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The Alexa Rank Team works by having dedicated computers throughout the world utilizing web browsers installed with the Alexa toolbar. Upon payment, they enter your site into a queue for which these computers will auto-surf to your site, thereby making Alexa think an actual human is surfing your site. Each time a drone computer hits your site, your Alexa ranking is moved ever upward. Since Alexa works on statistical assumptions, one drone computer might amount to an Alexa assumption of a thousand people (or some such number) using your site. The more money you pay the Alex Rank Team, the more drones they send out to your site, the higher you ranking will be.
Fortunately, the majority of Alexa Rank Team’s computers are overseas, in countries such as India and China. One sure fire way to spot a cheater is to look at the bottom of an Alexa profile at the section that shows which countries a sites users come from. For instance, technology blog ValleyWag’s Alexa profile shows that 70% of its traffic registered through Alexa comes from the United States. Another 4% comes from Canada. Being as ValleyWag is targeted to a predominately tech-savvy American audience, these numbers are well within the range of normalcy. If, however, ValleyWag were to buy their hits off of a service such as Alexa Rank Team, you would see completely different results in this section.
Lets look at a known cheater, the recently defunct Bolt.com, formerly a destination for teens and young adults (English-speaking). Bolt was notorious for lying about traffic numbers and from looking at their country data, it is clear they were gaming Alexa as well. Gotcha! At its peak, Bolt was ranked in the top 2000 Alexa websites, but with less than a quarter of their traffic coming from the USA? No way. This has the fingerprints of the Alexa Rank Team (or some such ilk) all over it. Perhaps Alexa should know better.
Many more exposés to come…cheaters beware.
Want to artificially boost your Alexa score? Want to create the false impression that people actually use your website?
Check out these guys.
The Alexa Rank Team works by having dedicated computers throughout the world utilizing web browsers installed with the Alexa toolbar. Upon payment, they enter your site into a queue for which these computers will auto-surf to your site, thereby making Alexa think an actual human is surfing your site. Each time a drone computer hits your site, your Alexa ranking is moved ever upward. Since Alexa works on statistical assumptions, one drone computer might amount to an Alexa assumption of a thousand people (or some such number) using your site. The more money you pay the Alex Rank Team, the more drones they send out to your site, the higher you ranking will be.
Fortunately, the majority of Alexa Rank Team’s computers are overseas, in countries such as India and China. One sure fire way to spot a cheater is to look at the bottom of an Alexa profile at the section that shows which countries a sites users come from. For instance, technology blog ValleyWag’s Alexa profile shows that 70% of its traffic registered through Alexa comes from the United States. Another 4% comes from Canada. Being as ValleyWag is targeted to a predominately tech-savvy American audience, these numbers are well within the range of normalcy. If, however, ValleyWag were to buy their hits off of a service such as Alexa Rank Team, you would see completely different results in this section.
Lets look at a known cheater, the recently defunct Bolt.com, formerly a destination for teens and young adults (English-speaking). Bolt was notorious for lying about traffic numbers and from looking at their country data, it is clear they were gaming Alexa as well. Gotcha! At its peak, Bolt was ranked in the top 2000 Alexa websites, but with less than a quarter of their traffic coming from the USA? No way. This has the fingerprints of the Alexa Rank Team (or some such ilk) all over it. Perhaps Alexa should know better.
Many more exposés to come…cheaters beware.
Alexa.com ranks websites based on visits from users of its Alexa Toolbar for Internet Explorer and from integrated sidebars in Mozilla and Netscape. Each time someone with the toolbar visits a site, it sends notification to Alexa, who then compile statistics and assumptions of the actual total traffic. Some people use Alexa to see a rough estimate of how popular a website is.
From Wikipedia:
There is some controversy over how representative Alexa’s user base is of typical Internet behavior. If Alexa’s user base is a fair statistical sample of the internet user population (e.g., a random sample of sufficient size), Alexa’s ranking should be quite accurate. In reality, not much is known about the sample and possible sampling biases. A known source of bias is the self-selecting, opt-in nature of Alexa traffic tracking software installation, but the significance of this bias on rankings is not reported.
As you might now understand, it is very easy to fool Alexa and give off the impression that your website is more popular than it actually is. The purpose of this website is to expose who those cheaters are, how they do it, and how to spot it yourself.
