When he put up a post bragging one of his students achieved 3000+ daily visitors within 2 months, I did a quick check on Alexa on the site he was showcasing, the ranking was like 1.6 million (3 month average) and 1.2 million for the previous week(as of 1 October). According to my experience with my own blog, that doesn’t reflect 3000+ daily visitors at all. I was deeply in doubt about the integrity and reliability of Alexa ranking. So I tried to submit a comment on his post about this. Guess what, that comment never showed up, which made me feel that he was trying to hide something.

Anyway, I was not quite care as I thought it was not his intention to put up a trick like that, and I kept on commenting on his blog. To my totally surprise, none of my following comments(all good comments) was showing up, obviously I was banned from commenting on his blog.

This however just firmly proved that he had something to hide. When I went back to check the Alexa ranking for the same site, it was boosted to 1.2 million (3 month average) and 140k(weekly average) and 70k for yesterday(as of 6 October). He does get the power to boost a blog’s Alexa ranking in a fairly short period of time, just forgot to do so before he putting up his bragging post.

Funny enough, he put up a post not long ago questioning “Can you make money online without lying?” He does have the answer for himself I guess. I thought he was a decent honest person at that point of time.

This is the Alexa traffic rank for one of my site (recorded on 2008-07-30), which shows a 1million+ jump in the ranking. I was using a technique which is kept as a secret for the moment.