How Alexa ranking works?

[Aashirya]

From the first Alexa ranking until now, Alexa have become one of the objectives pursued by a number of owners, many of the forum moderators owners are asking them to Alexa toolbar installed in order to enhance their own websites in the rankings. Basically I need to how does this ranking works or it can be cheated or not and if yes then how if no then what are the disadvantages of cheating.

[johnson22]

Alexa's Web site has said very clearly, Alexa by installing the Alexa Toolbar for IE feedback from users of information to carry out statistics. Some people have said is not: Alexa will count the entire shuttle on the Internet on the WEB traffic; to do this is clearly impossible.

[Jackson2]

Alexa Toolbar by BHO technology and Toolbar Bands technology to monitor the IE behavior, IE browser's address bar each time changes are not escape Alexa eyes. However, in the security considerations, Alexa Toolbar users of statistics will not HTTPS protocol traffic. Alexa Toolbar fact, is to Alexa website for data to send HTTP requests to send users to browse the information, the format of the request I have cracked.

[Techno01]

Alexa not google, its sources of information Alexa Toolbar users, rather than the site itself, the authenticity of these data cannot be guaranteed. These alone are not reliable data on a Web site to punish is not possible, because there most likely it was a malicious false false information to a site to make Alexa punish the site. However, there is cheating Alexa ignores the issue of suspected IP data.

[Trio]

If your site provides a functional user-line when the extra points to the user, the user with these scores, you can enjoy the services provided by your site, then you can set up such a mechanism: as long as their members to install the alexa toolbar , then the line when his scores will be not installed alexa twice or more.