Better “Alexa Redirect” WordPress Plugin

This is a WordPress plugin, which is designed to improve the Alexa Ranking of your blog by prefixing all your blog's links with the Alexa Redirect URL (http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?...).

Here’s what you need to know about it.

How it Works:

The particular plugin scans the entire set of links on any page of your blog while someone is watching it and it adds a JavaScript event to each of them, which upon clicking on the link (no matter is it a Left Click or a Right Click) will prefix it with the Alexa Redirect URL: in this way the person visiting your blog will visit the desired URL by forwarding the URL to Alexa. Here is an example - you have a link on your blog like http://www.yourblog.com/page/2, but when the user clicks on it, it will transform into http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://www.yourblog.com/page/2. In the same time, when a Search-Engine bot like Google visits your page it will not trigger the JavaScript event, because they are not JavaScript-aware: and in this way you "Alexa-Rating boosting efforts" will not mess your Google rating and search results positions.

Installation:

1. Download the Better “Alexa Redirect” WordPress Plugin
2. Upload Better “Alexa Redirect” WordPress Plugin to your plugins folder
3. Activate the Better “Alexa Redirect” WordPress Plugin
4. You are Done!

Usage:

You are not required to do anything: once you have activated the Better “Alexa Redirect” WordPress Plugin there is really nothing more to do. All you can do is I would however recommend that you keep an eye on your Alexa rating and monitor if the Better “Alexa Redirect” WordPress Plugin is proving to be of any use at all :)

Coming Soon:

Here’s what you can expect in the next release:

• Options page in the administration panel for fine-tunning the Better “Alexa Redirect” WordPress Plugin (done as of v0.2)
• List of white-listed domains, for which to apply the Alexa Redirect technique (not just your blog, but probably your other sites too, and your friends’ sites too) (done as of v0.2)
• The ability to apply the Alexa Redirect technique to the images posted on your blog (?)
• Adding a link on the Options page to your Alexa Ranking page (done as of v0.2)
• Detecting if redirect.alexa.com is a trusted site, and skip the “redirect-voodoo” if it is not (generally because of Windows Vista + Internet Explorer 7) (as of v0.2, the plugin gets disabled itself if IE7+Vista is detected ... still looking how to detect if redirect.alexa.com is a trusted site)