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There’s been quite a bit of discussion on Code4Gold Forums regarding Alexa Rankings and how they are generated, what purpose do Alexa rankings serve, is Alexa spyware, and can Alexa Rankings be faked.

To begin with, in 1997 Alexa.com released a browser toolbar application to help internet users quickly navigate site’s most commonly used. In 1997 IE toolbar plugins were the “in” thing. I was personally working as a C++ developer for a company developing a “newsbar” IE toolbar for paid subscribers. Of course, back in 1997, the concept of tracking toolbar usage, especially in the case I was working on was a commonplace. Using the information collected from toolbar users, Alexa developed a system where they started ranking websites based on information they were archiving. It was an ambitious goal to map the web based on toolbar users surfing patterns and create a search engine with a ranking system. While Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, etc were mapping the web by spidering pages, Alexa was learning based on it’s members surfing habits.

How it Works
Alexa Toolbar, when installed in IE or a similar browser uses “window messages” to intercept each request for a new page from the host browser. Any C++ programmer with a minor knowledge of how to program for IE knows that to accomplish what Alexa does is run a threaded app that listens for calls to the windows message handler for the browsers navigate message, intercept the url and send a message to Alexa’s servers about the url that was requested. Your browser doesn’t even know the difference and takes you happily off to the page you requested. Heck, Alexa even encrypts and compresses the packet into a couple of DWORDS before they send it. What I like is that when the toolbar sends off it’s packet it doesn’t wait for a tcp confirmation, meaning it could never tie up your browser if Alexa’s servers were down or slow.

Is it Safe?
I’ve been using the Alexa toolbar and the Firefox plugin since version 1.0 back in 1997. As a developer myself, I can attest to the fact Alexa (owned by Amazon), has offered developers the keys (for free) to a wealth of data and information in hopes that developers will find new ways to present the data to the public in creative and unique ways. There’s been much controversy in regards to Alexa toolbar being classified as spyware or scumware, but if you realize, your IP address is in every server’s logfiles for every site you visit, and many new Cisco routers that are designed to prevent DDOS attacks actually log data coming in and out of their networks. With all that technology in place, I’m really not worried if Alexa sees the sites I’m surfing, and I do think their rankings are fairly accurate so I’ll personally continue to use it.

Can You Fake Alexa Rankings?
You can certainly lower your rankings into the 1 million range just by having the Alexa toolbar installed and surfing your own pages a few times a day. To break into the top 100,000 could be easily accomplished in a small office or by having a lot of friends install Alexa toolbar and surf your page. Once a site has been in the top 100,000 for their 3 month rating, you can pretty much figure a lot of people outside of any “click team” are really accessing the site. When a site dips under 10,000 over a 3 month period, they are definitely receiving a huge amounts of traffic, and there’s no way to fake that kind of ranking.

Overall, I personally like the Alexa system and will continue to use the toolbar, actually, the Firefox plugin called SearchStatus, which is available here…

http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/

SearchStatus is a neat little FireFox plugin that lets you see the Google Pagerank as well as the Alexa Ranking of every site you visit and is a must for any serious webmaster, blog publisher or anybody interested in Google PR or Alexa Ranking.

Apparently CEPTrust payment processor / money transmitter does not take customer support very serious. On Tuesday evening last week, the primary hard drive on my work laptop crashed and I lost all of my stored passwords for all of the programs I’m involved in as well as the various payment processors I use. By Friday afternoon I had managed to recover every single password except my password for my CEPTrust account.

My first email to admin@ceptrust.com on Thursday bounced back to me as undeliverable, so I proceeded to use their online support form giving them my CEPTrust ID and my email address on file with them, and mentioned I could provide batch numbers for my transfers from E-gold. After 24 hours, there was no reply from them but I did receive an email stating “Your contact request has been received. We will do our best to respond within 24 hours.”. Well, one of my forum members wanted to purchase banner advertising using CEPTrust on Friday and I was expecting payment from 4NewbiesMarketing so I decided to call the pohone number listed on the support page (302-353-1232) and I received a message stating to leave a number and they will get back to you. Let’s face it, this is the autosurf arena and most of us are not going to go around giving our phone numbers to an unregistered and unlicensed money transmitter that’s primary business is to skim funds from autosurf programs. So I tried to join their forum on the advice of a friend and again I was met with another snafu, the forum requires CEP to validate a new member before they can activate their account. Needless to say, since last Friday, my forum account has not been activated.

I sent two more support messages over the weekend and still never received anything but “Your contact request has been received. We will do our best to respond within 24 hours.”. Granted it was Easter weekend, there is no excuse for a money transmitter or payment processor to not have adequate staff to offer support for members. Imagine if your debit card had been lost or stolen over the weekend and your bank did not answer their phone or answer email or web support. Those are the responsibilities that ANY finaicial institution or business must be held accountable for otherwise they are not worthy of handling money transfers.

Monday, I sent yet another support message and another email to CEPTrust, and again, there has been no response from them at all. I have attempted to use the contact phone number over 15 times in the past 5 days and never once could I get a human being on the phone. Last wednesday when I was recovering passwords, I phoned E-Gold and they had the passwords reset for all of my E-Gold accounts in 15 minutes. E-Bullion, AlertPay and AsianPay were equally as helpful in recovering my lost passwords and their support and service are/were impeccable.

Today is now Tuesday, five days after my initial attempts to contact CEPTrust and again, I’ve sent another support message and an email, and attempted to reach them on the phone, but again, there is absolutely no support or contact from them as of yet. In my opinion CEPTRust is absolutely the most unprofessional and unreliable entity in the autosurf community. They are not a real business, and they certainly don’t deserve any support because with service like this it’s only a matter of time before they bite the dust like EMO Corp did last year.

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If you’re a webmaster or blogger and are looking to monetize your website and are looking for an alternative to all of the program already out there, I’ve just discovered a new affiliate program similar to ClickBank that might be worth checking out.

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You can also view the Code4Gold Forums thread on this subject:

http://code4gold.com/forums/index.php?topic=7701.0

Good Luck !!!

We’ve been hearing of numerous problems that are going on at STO (SuccessTalkOnline) Forums which is the private forum for Bob Krimm’s Tri-Star programs that are reminiscent of how Charis Johnson and her team operated 12DailyPro program forums when the end was drawing near. Reports of posts being deleted, posts being altered and entire threads being removed are sweeping amongst member discussions of Tri-Star and their related programs.

Here is one report made by a member on another forum…

Anybody familiar with 12DailyPro and how the mods there were engaged in covering up the facts and keeping the members in the dark will see the glaring similarity to the actions being taken at STO forums. There are also numerous reports of members being banned from Tri-Star programs for complaining about not receiving payments, and reports of ASA Forums handing IP addresses of forum members to Tri-Star to ban accounts of people who have complained on ASA Forums.

Without a doubt, the collapse of Bob Krimm’s program will send a resounding effect to ASA Forums and Jake’s referral farm, as many members who trusted Jake followed him into the Tri-Star programs when they were listed as the top programs on his website. Jake has now turned his back on Bob Krimm, it seems, in light of recent events so that Jake can persue promoting the next wave of autosurf and MLM scams that will perpetuate the community. Forum shill/moderator Advisor-Butch at ASA has posted a new rule to ASA forums in bold red print regarding members who join ASA to lodge complaints against the Tri-Star programs, which incedentally make up over half of the total post counts for ASA forums.

Looks like Butchie doesn’t like naysayers at ASA forums and is more comfortable with a forum full of cheerleaders, but then again, what would you expect from the ASA referral farm. Good luck finding those golden eggs that Bob Krimm has promised his members, however most members are finding the stench of rotting goose eggs.

Otherwise, Happy Easter !!!

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Code4Gold is proud to announce that we’ve been awarded as an exclusive DTM Partner Blog from the fantastic DreamTeamMoney website. DTM is one of the top forums in the online moneymaker community and the atmosphere on their forum is one of professionalism and united community. While other forums such as TalkGold are overrun with naysayers and trolls due to the administrations lack of concern, and the infamous MoneyMakerGroup gets inundated with rampant cheerleaders and junk posters no matter how hard they try to prevent them. However, DTM has managed to draw a more mature crowd to their forums who understand the nature of the online moneymaker community and have respect for their fellow members. It is due this open atmosphere that Code4Gold monitor has begun removing links to TalkGold forum threads for respective hyip and autosurf programs and begun replacing them with links to DTM.

At Code4Gold, we urge all participants in this great online community to support DreamTeamMoney Forums !!!

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