The Alexa Project
UPDATE: I’ve decided to cancel the Alexa project for a variety of reasons including lack of time, and I apologize for this. I’m going to give this one to Jason, unfortunately - I challenged and I lost. Without using special scripts, I was only getting my ranking up to about 50k - reaching 12k would have required, by my estimate, at least a quadrupling of real traffic, give or take some.
Additionally, the challenge should have been a three month one, as Alexa rankings are rolling on a 3-month basis. This is a fact that I was hoping to overcome (and possibly could have), but would have required even higher traffic numbers.
Finally, real life got in the way. Graduation, moving, and all that fun stuff took up much more time than expected.
Here’s the original post:
I’ve seen a few posts talking about how to manipulate Alexa rankings, so I decided to come up with a challenge:
I’m going to pick one prominent blogger, and beat his Alexa ranking in one month
The target is Jason Calacanis, rank 13,710, an “entrepreneur in action”. My current rank is 168,726, which means I need to go up 155,016 spots to beat him down.
Here are the rules:
- The start date is today: May 17th, 2007
- The challenge must be completed in one month, by June 17th, 2007.
- No using any of the scripts/sites out there that profess to boost your rankings
- If I beat Calacanis before the end date, I’m going after Shoemoney (Rank: 1860)
Once this project is over, I’ll reveal the secrets on how to make massive Alexa gains.
If you want to help me in this project, please link to this post as: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://www.mikebogo.com/the-alexa-project.php
Update 5/23:
So this may be a little bit more difficult than expected. The highest daily ranking that I’ve managed to get so far is about 53k. That means that I’m going to have to work harder on boosting my Alexa, although the amount of effort I’ve put in to getting to 53k was pretty minimal, which already shows how flawed Alexa is.
