Alexa Redirect has gone bye-bye!
Jan 13th, 2008 | By Kevin | Category: make money, personal, trafficIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed with Feedburner. Thanks for visiting!
As I was doing a final surf through Entrecard sites, I came across one for EJ Cooksey’s blog, which was using the fabled Alexa Redirect to get a bump on her alexa rating. It seems Alexa has disabled this service on 1/10/08 according to some reports. I came across another blog that was a dead link earlier this weekend but didn’t bother to look at the address bar.
Here is the report I found of the demise. As the report says, there are probably thousands of site out there using this technique, including some article links in article directories. If you are using it, you may want to change your link if you can, because they are now going nowhere.
Originally from Wisconsin, I moved out to Salt Lake City over ten years ago on a six month software development contract. I now have over 15 years in software development, and was introduced to internet marketing back in 2003. During the wild west days, are business focused on content sites for Adsense revenue. As it became harder and harder to keep up with the search engines, our business has evolved, and forced us to focus on building lists and creating products. We now have a list of about 5000 interested in goal setting, and a small internet marketing list of about 500.
Thanks for the headsup on this…luckily I was only using this on the Entrecard site and I changed it on 1/10/08 when they quit doing the redirect.
EJ
It seems like EntreCard keeps the old card information on any ads you have placed prior to updating your link or image. I ran across several more yesterday as I was visiting other Entrecard sites. I imagine there are a lot of purchased links out there using the redirect.