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.
Jason Calacanis
wrote @ 8:17 am on May 17, 2007:You can easily jump up to the 20,000 mark with just 10-20 unique IPs loading a couple of pages a day on a domain. I think getting over that point is much harder. If you have 500 people with unique IP addresses and the tool bar from various regions in the world you would be able to make it work for sure. My guess is a major site like engadget or digg has ~5,000 toolbar users visit the site and that 1,000/2,000x that is their actually visitors (or 5-10M uniques).
Mike Bogo
wrote @ 10:41 am on May 17, 2007:Hey Jason,
Thanks for coming by! I was curious how many hits you needed to get higher level Alexa rankings - it doesn’t take much at all to get to the top 500,000.
How do you think Compete compares?
Siropel
wrote @ 11:40 am on May 17, 2007:I’m sure curious about this. Maybe Calacanis will try to beat you at your own game :))
Ginene
wrote @ 1:29 pm on May 17, 2007:Wishing you luck and hope you succeed. Mine went from 1,000,000 something to 677,766 in a month.
Ken Xu
wrote @ 4:05 pm on May 21, 2007:Hi, Mike. Let me join as your helper. I will create a post an link to your alexa redirect. Hope your project will end with a successful result!
Chee Kui
wrote @ 2:27 am on May 22, 2007:Sounds cool. All the best for this Alexa Project
Opal: Vegan Momma
wrote @ 4:38 am on May 23, 2007:That sounds interesting. Mine went from a little ove over 1.8m on May 7th. It’s now at 262,762.
kuanhoong
wrote @ 8:18 pm on May 23, 2007:Nice!
I started with my new domain http://www.kuanhoong.com 3 weeks ago. I managed to raise my Alexa ranking to 526,218. I am aiming for 100,000 by end of next month. I think I can achieve that
C.Whyte
wrote @ 6:48 pm on June 29, 2007:What is this “Alexa Project” everyone is talking about?