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[Dan Grossman]

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...ium-offers.com

32 to 100,000 in a day... how?

[Artashes]

This is quite amusing. I have no idea how this happened, but I've never really trusted Alexa. They are often given more credit than they deserve with their traffic ranking.

EDIT: My guess is that they were buying insane amount of pop-up driven traffic and then stopped at some point.

Best,

[Dan Grossman]

#32 of all the sites on the Web, even when judged by Alexa, is a huge amount of traffic to be buying from anywhere. I want some of that.

[Artashes]

I know what you mean. No matter how much he was buying, #32 is too big to be true. Which proves once again - Alexa is far from accurate.

[BizB]

yeah my guess they had one hell of an advertisment compain in larg sites but think how much did it cost ? my guess $100,000's

[digitok]

That'd be an insane amount of traffic to purchase... It must be a mistake?

[Dan Grossman]

There's one review of the site on Alexa, from a guy who saw it all the time in popups. He said on popups of his bank's site even, which made me think adware/spyware campaigns, but software doesn't usually open the windows in IE, they just use a browser component in one of their windows, so it wouldn't register on Alexa... that means they had to have bought millions of popups a month, damn.

[Aussie Bob]

Aren't there companies out there that for a price can artificially inflate your Alexa rating? I heard of one well know host who had this done.

[Subhadip]

Same here; I don't trust their guess on traffic.

Have to admit though, sometimes, their guesses are pretty good.

[BizB]

yes there is like 2 programes that claim to incress your alexa rating and there like 1 week free demo but what the do is use around 1000 proxys to access your site with build in alexa spycode but i didnt feal they realy work. they may incress your ranking but not by much. plus they will overload your server because they act like a dos attck with all that http requests

[NE-Andy]

Woah.... that must be a very very very high amount of traffic they're buying.... and I guess it must be not working out too well as well

[gamesector]

I don't trust alexa at all, my ranking is all over the place but I always get a steady amount of visitors.

[Dan Grossman]

This annoying offers site was higher ranked than AltaVista

[gamesector]

I don't use altavista unless i want to translate something.....I thought evreyone used google, msn, yahoo and aol and forgot about it, lol.

[Aussie Bob]

Originally posted by gamesector
I don't trust alexa at all, my ranking is all over the place but I always get a steady amount of visitors.

Yeah, I noticed that with HTTPme's Alexa ranking. One minute it's 24,000, then next week it's 30,000. It's back around the 24,000 mark now. Another host I remember was 18,000 a while back, and now they're over 30,000.

Oh how we get all riled up by a rating someone places on our sites.