Update: Alexa Site Association Data
March 27th, 2006 by Michael Gray in Grayhat SEO, SEOIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
After 2 emails threatening legal action, Alexa has removed any and all site associations with this blog (see
Alexa (claim to) know your networks. | Threadwatch.org and Alexa: Now showing other sites owned).
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While this is good news, it also ends there. I’ve sent about 6 other emails asking for the site associations to be removed on other domains I own. To date all of them are unanswered, even though half of them predate the request for this blog. My current feeling is if Alexa can get this mostly right for my other domains I bet Google can too, and it would provide an easy way to discount some links. So while I may have drunk from the ‘Web 2.0 all information should be free and available to everyone kool-aid‘, I’m realizing that may not have been the best strategy …
Sphere It
March 27th, 2006 at 9:52 am
Big Brother Alexa
Die einen glauben, es würde sich bei Big Brother um eine Fernsehshow von RTL handeln, andere halten Big Brother für einen düsteren Science Fiction Roman von George Orwell und wieder andere denken bei diesem Namen an den Suchmaschinen-Riesen Google …
March 27th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
Go gray go! Go gray go!
March 27th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Thanks for bringing this update to our attention - and ya, ya gotta figure that Google knows all this too.
March 27th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
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March 27th, 2006 at 11:42 pm
I highly suggest registering domains with lunarpages cuz they got a privacy option. I can’t believe it, you can even find peoples home addresses in there,,, what the? Alexa shows that you are blocking them in your robots.txt file Michael.
April 10th, 2006 at 9:57 am
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