It’s very simple, actually. Let’s say you have one blog with little readership (100 visitors per day) that you would like to promote. Let’s call it Blog A. You have another, more established blog (Blog B) with let’s say, 3,000 visitors per day. With the referral system in BlogRush, we can take advantage of this.

Sign up on BlogRush with Blog A and begin displaying the widget on your site. If we stop here, you will get about 100 credits per day (one for each visitor.)

BlogRush allows you to add more than one blog per account, but that would be foolish. Using your affiliate link, sign up Blog B under a different email address and different account, then display the widget on Blog B. Since you earn one credit for each page view on all blogs you refer, Blog B will be receiving about 3,000 credits per day, and Blog A will get about 3,100 credits per day.

If you want to add another blog, use the referral link from Blog B. Then Blog A will be receiving credits for our new Blog C as well!

Repeat as many times as you’d like. The referral system goes 10 levels deep, but the credit-to-visitor ratio goes down the deeper the levels get. But hey, free traffic is free traffic!

We all know how inaccurate Alexa can be, but how can we fight back? First, we all need to download the Search Status plugin, but is that really enough?

There’s been talk around the blogosphere recently about ways to increase your Alexa ranking, and one of those ways is to create an Alexa redirect URL for your website. This is about as easy as it gets:

http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.egonitron.com

Just replace my website with yours, and use that URL when commenting on others blogs, submitting your blog to directories, and using it anywhere someone might click on it. Another great way to get people going through that link is to use it as your “Home” link on your blog. Any time someone clicks on your Home link to get to the root of your site, you get some traffic coming through Alexa.

I haven’t implemented this hack on this blog yet, but I’ve noticed an increase in Alexa rank for another blog that I use it on.

Disclaimer: Keep in mind if you submit this URL to directories and Alexa changes the redirect method, you’re stuck with a broken link, as most directories don’t let you change your submitted URLs.