One guy using some Alexa rank tricks to gain high PR etc..?
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Hi!
One finnish guy is getting pretty nice Alexa ranking to his sites, even if the real traffic is not somewhere near it would lead for that cool Alexa rank. I am a bit suspisious if he is using some Low Bounce Rate High Traffic Boosters on his sites..
I will give you some examples here to look into..
Vihjepaikka(dot)com - Created on 2013-03-13 - Alexa Rank 129k!!! - PR3 - Backlinks not many qualitys..
Casinolla(dot)net - Created on 2014-10-15 - Alexa Rank 351k!!! - PR0 - Backlinks 0!!!
Cashadvance777(dot)com - Created on 2014-09-04 - Alexa Rank 772k!!! - PR3 - Backlinks 0!!!
Let me know your thoughts on these..
Cheers!
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Hi and cheers for your response!
I think there is 1 important point which everyone should notice. Using Alexa toolbar + visiting through it on your own sites and acting for getting low bounce rate and visiting several pages with long time spent on site. Google is looking on to those as a ranking factors..
Ps.. I am using Link Research Tools, SemRush, MOZ and Ahrefs as my main SEO tools, have been using them for years now. Sorry, not meant to advertise those, but just wanted to mention that i am using many tools at the moment.. And, quality ones..
Thanks,
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Hi there,
Alexa is very inaccurate. For the top 50k site in the world its it can be in the right ball park, But for you average Kononen its way off. Just by installing Alexa toolbar yourself and visiting your own site can make you site jump by 10ks in the rankings.
Semrush would be a better alternative, but ultimately your own analytics and a good rank checking software is a far better way to measure your sites growth.
Hope it helps you.
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Hi and thanks for your response!
I do know about the latest news of PR, but still i wonder what is going on..
I just noticed that Cashadvance has been registered first time in 2010, so it is not brand new domain. Sorry about that..
Still though, Casinolla.net is barely 1 month old and it already gained 351k Alexa. Lets just not compare this to any Google PR or Google rankings, just please tell me how Alexa is that impressive that fast..
I was able to contact him earlier, but only thing he said was he is using Alexa toolbar which may possible lead to that nice Alexa.. Which is very hard to believe...
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But...this won't affect his ranking in Google, Bing or Yahoo. It might make his site look a little better to a potential acquirer, or someone he's trying to sell ads to.
Google PR will NOT be affected by these tactics. And Google PR, as we see it in the toolbar etc., was last updated about a year ago, and Google has no plans to update it going forwards.
Those PR numbers in your examples are from last December...which tells me they're the PR values from the prior owner's site.
But the real PageRank that's actually part of the algorithm won't be affected either--they don't look at Alexa ranking.
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