Does the "alexa redirect" actually help your Alexa ranking?

I've done a bit of searching, but can't find a definitive answer on this. Does the Alexa redirect method actually help your alexa ranking?

The redirect thing I'm talking about is this one:
http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.swollenpickles.com

So it's the redirect with your URL on the end.

 

Yes.

I've tested it on sites that don't really get any traffic and are ranked at 8 million. Clicking the redirect a few times daily for a week or so should drop the rank to 1 or 2 million.

Obviously if your Alexa rank is already at 100k then the results won't be so dramatic.

 

Im havent seen that it does work but cant prove otherwise buddy !

 

That pretty much summarise most of what I've read about the subject. Anyone here work at Alexa??

 

I used that in links to my website for a month and my Alexa rankings climbed significantly - so yeah, I'm pretty darn sure it works. But what's your purpose of getting better Alexa rankings?

 

Don't really have a purpose, I just want to improve it to see if I can.

 

It seems like common sense that it works. I mean, there are two basic ways to improve your Alexa rank: 1) get more traffic, or 2) increase the percentage of your traffic that has the Alexa toolbar installed.

Each click on a redirect link is basically like getting another site visitor that has the toolbar installed.

 

Any one have the Old post about that alexa redirect?

 

What do you mean? Like make a page that has a javascript redirect to the same page:

http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.???????.com/alexa-redirect.html

Isn't this like spamming? Couldn't you get banned?

 

i wont try it till some one will review it...