The requested URL /redirect was not found on this server.
This is what comes when an Alexa Redirect URL is clicked, which is prefixed with ” http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect? “. It was working fine until yesterday .. damn !
There are bloggers who use the “alexa redirect” plugin for Wordpress. They need to deactivate it. There are other less unfortunate ones who have hardcoded http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect? to the theme’s links. They’d have to mod the entire code again.
What is more fascinating is that Alexa has never said the redirect would have any effect on the Alexa ranking. It is not even mentioned anywhere at Alexa.com. Geoffrey Mack, The Project Manager at Alexa has quoted :
…The redirect doesn’t do anything to your rank. The rank is based on one thing only: logs from toolbar usage. I should know, I am the product manager at Alexa….”
Still, bloggers use the Alexa redirect with a hope to boost up their alexa rankings.
Either Alexa has taken off the redirect [Excessively High load on their servers due to the unprecedented redirection from the blogosphere? But, would they do that without a prior notice ? ] or they are updating the redirect service.. Let’s wait and see..
Alot of great comments and tips here!I can really learn alot from these suggestions and hope that i can contribute as well.keep up the good work
very true dear, I chucked that plugin … its of no use if you dont use default theme of wordpress…
Its still not working, I guess they have completly stopped their redirect service.
IT’S NOT WORKING.I’VE TRIED SEVERAL TIMES BUT NOTHING.
I’VE IMPROVED MY NEW SITE’S RANK FROM 1,974,707 TO 1,306,202 USING THE OTHER METHODS(2 WEEKS INTERVAL).
thanx Fape,
It something terrible. Alexa are you hear me?
Alexa ask me and I help you. May be they do something that not work.
Alexa ask me and I help you. May be they do not support redirect link.
I think Alexa has turned off this feature on purpose because they realized that too many people are using it instead of their toolbar. My site sees a dramatic increase when the redirect is used. It is hard to get people to install the toolbar, especially when it is detected by spyware detecting programs. To sum it up, Alexa sucks. Redirect only works in the evenings. for some reason it is turned off in the mornings. Oh yeah, Alexa says that they do not support their redirect link.
Everything Alexa does for traffic rankings is questionable. It’s a disproportionate sample of the population… it has privacy implications in that it is tracking what sites are visited… it is unreliable in that placing a widget linking to them can inflate your rank…
Don’t rely on Alexa for anything – and that includes redirects.
Exactly! Alexa redirect it’s not working right now, more information here.
that IS bad news..
So, did u fix em ? It wasnt very nice of alexa to take it off w/o prior notice
OMG, many of my links are in a Flash Application -_-
what bad news!