The wonderful thing about WordPress community is, whatever ideas you can think of, there’s plugin for it. Few months ago I was thinking, how about including http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect? before all hyperlinks. This will definitely boost the Alexa ranking, because before content reaches destination, they are sent to Alexa to create awareness.
Today, reading from an entry written by Everton of ConnectedInternet, I found a plugin that allows you to do so. This plugin add http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect? automatically to all internal links within your blog. Here’s the authors description on the plugin.
The plugin scans your entire page (header, sidebar and all) and replaces any internal links (links that include your domain, like ‘iamnotashamed.net’ for my site) with the Alexa Redirect link, which simply means it adds: “http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?” to the front of your link url. For Example, in the html:
<a href=”blog.iamnotashamed.net/about-ariah-fine/”>
becomes
<a href=”http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://blog.iamnotashamed.net/about-ariah-fine/”>
Is this a good idea?
I certainly don’t think so. Although this sounds really promising on boosting Alexa, but will this affects google indexing? How will Google treat links that starts with redirect.alexa.com? I’ll leave the question to you. Also, by doing that, I assume Alexa will be your direct referral source on links, this can potentially screwed the accuracy of your statistics readings, especially if you are stats freak like me. I want to know exactly who click from where to where.
I’m not writing to encourage the installation of this plugin, but rather creating awareness of such.
