Update: Alexa Site Association Data

Michael Gray

By Michael Gray
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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 …

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