Devil Works

As I’ve mentioned in the past, I don’t believe in the statistical accuracy of Alexa. However there are quite a few advertisers that do, so it’s well worth improving your ranking if you can.

I’ve been doing some reading this morning on what people are calling an Alexa train. I’ve googled “Alexa train results” and I can only find one person that’s bothered to report a positive result to it.

From what I can see, for this to work it’s got to rely on people clicking the links in train.

I’ve come up with another idea I’d like to try.

1. You will need to be using the Firefox Browser
2. You will need to install the Search Status Plug in. According to the privacy policy this reports your site visits to Alexa.
3. Create a new folder in your bookmarks, call it Alexa train or something similar.
4. Bookmark some of your sites and exchange bookmarks with some of your friends. How many you do is up to you, just keep in mind that the more you have the longer it will take to load.
5. Once a day, maybe when you are about to go make a coffee, Open a new Firefox browser, right click on your Alexa train folder and select “open in all tabs”.
6. This will load all the sites in a different tab, leave the window open until all the sites load then close your browser.

This in theory should show as a visit by Alexa. The downside of this method is that it relies on people to remember to visit there Alexa train bookmarks and it’s an honesty system so there is no guarantee that the person that’s put forward a site will visit anyone elses.
Now all I need is some people to test it. If you’d like to take part  leave a comment below and I’ll send you an email as sites get added to the list.