http://www.alexacheaters.com Exposing those who game their rankings Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:46:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.alexacheaters.com/2008/12/29/alexa-cheater-inetgiantcom/ 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 ... http://www.alexacheaters.com/2008/12/29/highly-suspect-alexa-cheater-mobipocketcom/ 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 ... http://www.alexacheaters.com/2008/09/18/alexa-cheater-cooltoadcom/ 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 ... http://www.alexacheaters.com/2007/11/30/alexa-cheater-rextopiacom/ 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 ... http://www.alexacheaters.com/2007/11/30/alexa-cheater-rapidsafenet/ 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% ... http://www.alexacheaters.com/2007/10/24/alexa-cheater-freefamilyhealthcom/ Want to artificially boost your Alexa score? Want to create the false impression that people actually use your website? Check out these guys. http://www.alexarankteam.com/ 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 ... http://www.alexacheaters.com/2007/10/24/the-alexa-rank-team-2/ Want to artificially boost your Alexa score? Want to create the false impression that people actually use your website? Check out these guys. http://www.alexarankteam.com/ 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 ... http://www.alexacheaters.com/2007/10/23/the-alexa-rank-team/ 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. ... http://www.alexacheaters.com/2007/10/23/what-is-alexa-and-how-does-it-work/