Have you heard of Alexa.com?
If you have been working to improve your website's search
engine placement, then I am SURE you know who they are. If
not, Alexa.com is owned by Internet giant Amazon.com. Alexa
is designed to "RANK" websites by their popularity (number
of visitors), incoming links, etc. Alexa uses the Google search
engine and other search engines to gather this information to see which
websites are getting the most traffic. Based on the
information that they receive, they place the sites in a
ranking list from 1 to 6 million.
The top sites, like Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, all know that
"Traffic Ranking" and search engine placement is the "KEY"
to building their internet presence. Popularity is based on
Traffic. The MORE people that visit your site, the MORE
people will review your service or product, which means the
MORE people will BUY what you have to sell - Lots of
visitors create more visitors. Be it a new computer, skin
cream, a diet supplement, the latest DVD, or simply some
form of information, ALL these have one thing in common. NO
Traffic, NO Sales.... And lots of traffic begets lots of
traffic - like rabbits, website
"hits" reach the point where
they become a self-fulfilling prophecy... and almost
"accidentally" become a thriving business venture.
By improving your ranking and search engine placement, you
will build your web site traffic which in turn will make MORE Sales.
There are many ways to build your site's traffic, but when
first starting, it is very difficult. Rank Enhancer can help
speed things up, whether you site just went online, or your
site has been around for years!
* NOTE: Alexa.com is owned by Amazon.com - This product is
NOT an Alexa product, but it affects the way a web site is
ranked by Alexa.
Q & A Before We Continue:
What is a Proxy Server?
In computer
networks, a proxy server is a server (a
computer system or an application program)
which services the requests of its clients
by forwarding requests to other servers. A
client connects to the proxy server,
requesting some service, such as a file,
connection, web page, or other resource,
available from a different server. The proxy
server provides the resource by connecting
to the specified server and requesting the
service on behalf of the client. A proxy
server may optionally alter the client's
request or the server's response, and
sometimes it may serve the request without
contacting the specified server. In this
case, it would 'cache' the first request to
the remote server, so it could save the
information for later, and make everything
as fast as possible.
A proxy
server that passes all requests and replies
unmodified is usually called a gateway or
sometimes tunneling proxy.
A proxy
server can be placed in the user's local
computer or at specific key points between
the user and the destination servers or the
Internet.
In layman's terms, a Proxy
Server is a computer network that is geographically close to
you, that serves-up files that have been requested by you
previously, or by users
in your geographical area. This allows users in a particular
neighborhood in New York,
for example, to quickly access files located in Hanoi, or
Bahrain, or Sri Lanka, without having to request those pages
from the (remote) host server - IF - those pages have been
requested from users in that area before. The more popular a
Web site is, the better the chances are that its pages will
be stored on your (local) Proxy server. For example, since
almost everyone uses Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL search
engines, many pages for these sites can be found on almost
every Proxy Server on the planet.
What this incredible piece of
software does is to access the proxy servers in its list,
and "simulate" page requests for URLs you provide (your Web
site URLs), and make it seem like users in whatever part of
the world that the accessed proxy server is located, are "hitting" your
Web site - and it does this
without
actually loading your Web site's pages!! In other words, the
bandwidth of your Web site is NOT affected by this process.
Press "PLAY" to see a
9-minute presentation of how OUR version of this software
works.
Rank Enhancer Creates Website
"Hits" Without Impacting Bandwidth
Rank
Enhancer has found a way to help you improve your ranking and
placement by using special technology that tricks the ranking
systems into thinking that thousands of visitors are coming to your website. When Alexa.com crawls the proxy servers, and
sees all this activity, that helps move you up the search-engine
ladder. All of this is done without actually loading your Web
pages like the FFA lists and Autosurf programs do. This means
that using this program (or leaving it running continuously) will
NOT impact the bandwidth restrictions of your Web site.
We came across this technology in other software products. So we
tracked down the programmers and bought the rights and had them
create special software just for us.
But Isn't This Cheating?
In a word....
YEP!
- But it all depends on how you define "cheating". In a world of
relativistic morality, YOU make the decision... YOU make the
decision based upon how successful you want your Web site-based
business to be. It is only a matter of time before many more
people than are now aware of this technology begin using it to
increase their Search Engine ratings. The longer you put off
using this tool, the more you will struggle with other, more
expensive methods to increase your business - and you will be
fighting howitzers with pea-shooters; you will be spending your
time posting ads and answering thousands of "confirmation"
eMails (not
that this method doesn't work) instead of
boosting your "apparent" hits on "autopilot" as this program
does.
Will my sites be banned from
the Search Engines for using this software?
I'm sure that the people at
Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, et al.,
know about
Rank Enhancer.... and they're
not
busting their brains over it....
not YET,
at least. And even if they embarked on an all-out campaign
to BAN all the Web sites that used Rank Enhancer to boost
their Alexa ratings from their search engines, they would
FIRST have to come up with a way to IDENTIFY those sites.
The trouble (for them) is that
there is simply NO WAY TO
TELL whether a request
for a Web page on a Proxy Server came from an actual user
browsing your Web site,
or if it came from YOU using this software.
The answer to the question
is, "NO".
And so we see that this ONE
little software application has rendered the Alexa Ranking
System invalid, and all but obsolete. It is all a matter of
time. Almost gone are the
days when a large company with an unlimited advertising
budget is able to completely submerge the little-guy
competition to the depths of the Search Engine abyss.
Fair? Cheating? Unethical?
Sneaky? Under-handed? - Gimme' a break!
How Does
Rank Enhancer Boost My Sales?
Indirectly. Rank
Enhancer is NOT a sales tool. It is NOT an e-Mail marketing
tool; neither does it place any ads, or generate any entries
in the FFA lists. What this tool does is improve your Search
Engine rankings. Depending on how you set it up, and how
often and how long you use it, and also depending upon the
keywords, content, and SEO-friendliness of your Web site,
your site will start to move up in the Search Engine
rankings. This is important, because no matter how great
your Web site is, it won't get seen on a Google or Yahoo
search if it is on page #697 of 1042.
We have a Special Edition of Rank Enhancer
archive, which
is available ONLY via this Web site. We have not changed the
program as originally supplied by the manufacturer, but we have
enhanced it with the addition of several files - including these
detailed instructions - which are NOT included with the program
that is available from the manufacturer, or
anywhere else on the
Web.
When you first start OUR Rank Enhancer
for the first time, you will be presented with a blank screen
identical to the one shown on the left.
You begin at STEP 1.
You can type a URL into the
URL TO SEND TO box
and click the ADD button.
Here I have typed the URL for one of my Web
sites:
www.Net4TruthUSA.com* and pressed the
ADD button.
Notice that you do NOT include the "http://" if
the Web site has "www" in the URL.
The ONLY time you must use the "http://" is when
there is no "www" in the URL; for example:
You can add as many URLs to the list this way as you want. Here
I have manually added several URL's and selected
Rotate ALL URLs from
the drop-down selector dialog box at the bottom. I have entered
300 and 9000
into the USERS boxes. This limits
the hourly "hits" generated by the software (You
should leave these at 0)
However, it is easier to create a .txt file with all the URLs in
it, then use the LOAD DOMAIN button to load the list into the
software.
You can
create several lists, and each time you use the
LOAD DOMAIN
button, that file will be appended to the list. The program's
URL list will be stored in:
C:\Program Files\RankEnhancer\RankEnhancer\Files\URL-List.txt
I have now selected
STEP 2
button, and selected 15
from the THREADS
drop-down box. This number controls how many iterations of the
program will be running.
Selecting any number but
1
means that multiple sessions of the program will be running (in
memory). Selecting 15
in this case is the functional equivalent of having 15 computers running
Rank Enhancer simultaneously.
I have highlighted my own Proxy
List from the SELECT PROXY
LIST box (see the
following text to see how to create your own Proxy list, and /
or use the huge list we supply with the program).
Selecting
STEP 3
and clicking START
will begin the program. If you have limited your
USERS PER HOUR
/ MAXIMUM USERS
as I did in STEP 1,
the software (and each iteration running) will limit itself to
those parameters.
Proxy servers which return
positive acknowledgements to the "tap" at the requested URL will
return "OK"
in the GENERATION RESULTS
window. This means that the URL currently requested is now
cached on that particular Proxy server.
A return of
N/A
("Not
Available") means that the
requested page (URL) could not be fetched from the Proxy server,
or the Proxy server is not available.
You can delete any of the URLs
in the list by highlighting the URL in the window, and pressing
DELETE.
However, if you have loaded hundreds or even thousands of URLs
from a .txt file, it is easier to "zero" the entire list by navigating
to the Rank Enhancer directory, which will be located at:
C:\Program Files\RankEnhancer\RankEnhancer\Files
and loading the file URL-List.txt
into Windows WordPad
Edit Pad Lite,
or any text editor or Word Processor.
In the text editor,
simply
SELECT ALL, press
DELETE to erase all the URLs from the list and then
SAVE
the file with the original name as an empty text file. The next time you start Rank
Enhancer, your URL list box will be empty.
Creating a URL List for Your
Web Site(s)
To create a
URL list for your own Web site, your Web site should be online
and operational. Start your browser and a text editor program,
and size each program window to fit on half the screen. Now
browse to the pages on your Web site that you want included in
the URL list, then cut & paste the URL from your browser's URL
window to the text editor. You can include as many URLs in the
list as you
want.
When you are done with the list, save it (so you won't lose it),
then use the
SEARCH & REPLACE
function of the text editor to
SEARCH FOR
http://www
and replace it with www
Save the file
in
C:\Program Files\RankEnhancer\RankEnhancer\Files
with any
name you choose as a
.txt
file. You
will load this file with the
LOAD DOMAIN function, and the
program will then copy (append) all the URLs to its working URL file
C:\Program Files\RankEnhancer\RankEnhancer\Files\URL-List.txt
when the
program is
started.
This file is the list of URLs the program uses to "tap" the Proxy
servers with.
The "default" Proxy lists provided with
OUR package here includes BOTH the "default" proxy list
that originally comes with the software as supplied by the
manufacturer, and our
own list of VERIFIED proxy servers - over
8,000 VERIFIED Proxy servers!!
The Proxy list is what makes the
software work - a short, outdated proxy list will waste time
with "IP not found" errors (N/A
responses) and will not yield the most effective results.
OUR
list is updated regularly from Proxy lists available on the
Internet from
Proxy List Providers. As we use this software constantly ourselves, we
update the Proxy list frequently so that the list provided in
the download archive will be up-to-date when you get it.
Creating
Your Own
Proxy List
The original program archive supplies a list
of approximately 2,600 proxy servers.
We have supplied
our own list
of over
8,000 verified Proxy
servers from almost every country
on planet Earth for you to use. There are no duplicate entries
in this list.
It is unlikely that you will need any
more than this, however, as time
goes on, you may want to compile a different list of proxy
servers, or append your own Proxy servers to this list.
Please note that as the proxy list grows,
it takes more time to cycle through all of the servers in the
list - particularly if you are submitting more than just a few
URLs. The list we provide in the archive is designed for a user
who will let the program run continuously and / or is dedicating
a machine for full-time use with Rank Enhancer. If you cannot
allow the program to run continuously, we suggest that you split
the file into several manageable pieces (see below).
There
are hundreds of free proxy lists available on the Internet. See
Proxy List Providers.
You can use any of these you wish; in fact, it is a good idea to
have several proxy lists available to you, and run Rank Enhancer
with each of these lists in "rotation". In fact, the proxy list
we supply with this package can be split into seven proxy lists
(with a word processor or text editor), and you can name them "MondayProxy.txt",
"TuesdayProxy.txt", etc, and run Rank Enhancer each day with the
day's proxy list. In this way, you can be sure that each of the
servers gets "hit" at least once, and that the program cycles
through all of the URLs in your URL file during the time you
allocate to run
the program.
Adding Proxy Servers to the Proxy
List
As time goes on, you may want to (and you should)
add Proxy servers to the list, or use an entirely different
Proxy List. There is no problem obtaining a
list of servers (they are
free on the Internet); the problem is
culling out duplicate entries, and the non-responding
servers from the list you compile. To do this, gather your list of NEW Proxy
servers and save the list to:
C:\Program
Files\RankEnhancer\RankEnhancer\Files\Proxy.txt
(overwrite the existing file) and take note of the SIZE of the file
(Kilobytes) by opening the folder in Windows Explorer.
Run Rank Enhancer with
ONE
URL in the rotation (select
Use Selected URL
from the drop-down dialog box in
STEP 1)
and ONE
Thread
(select
1
from the Threads
drop-down dialog box in
STEP 2)
until the size of the current session file at:
C:\Program Files\RankEnhancer\RankEnhancer\Sessions\Session_mm_dd_yy.txt
is at least THREE TIMES the size of the new Proxy Server list
you just saved.
Stop the program and load the
current session file into your word processor or text editor.
This list of URLs is the program's output for
verified, working Proxy servers
that responded "OK"
to the program's "tap" with your URL. This list will contain
duplicate URLs, and in order to make the program more efficient,
those duplicates should be culled from the list. You can do this
manually with a short list, by finding where the list repeats
the first (top) entry, and deleting the rest. However, with long
lists, it is much simpler to cull the duplicates using a
spreadsheet program. The following instructions will show you
how to do this with
Microsoft Excel,
although any spreadsheet program should be able to do this.
CULLING DUPLICATE PROXIES FROM
YOUR OWN LISTS
(Requires Microsoft Excel, or other
Spreadheet Program)
Then open
Microsoft Excel,
or whatever spreadsheet program you have, then cut & paste the
entire list into the spreadsheet.
In
Excel:
Select
DATA
and select
FILTER / ADVANCED FILTER
from the drop-down menu.
Note:
The dialog boxes may be different for other spreadsheet
programs and for different versions of
Excel.
Refer to your program documentation or help menu under "delete
duplicates" or "duplicate entries".
You should
see the Advanced Filter dialog box.
Check the
Unique records only
box.
(it
doesn't matter what is in the
List Range
box)
Click on
OK
The
duplicate records will now be deleted from the list.
You now
have a Proxy list that contains no duplicates, and is ready to
be saved as a USER-DEFINED Proxy list file.
You can now save the file as your own
Proxy List.
Select SAVE
AS from the
FILE menu.
Navigate to the
C:\Program Files\RankEnhancer\RankEnhancer\Files\
directory.
Give the
Proxy file a Name ending with the
.txt
extension such as
MyNewProxyList.txt
Select
Unicode Text (*.txt) from the
Save as type
drop-down menu.
Click OK
or SAVE
to save the file.
Exit your spreadsheet program and reply
NO to
the dialog box that asks you if you want to save the spreadsheet
file.
If you have loaded many URLs into Rank Enhancer, note that the
program will cycle through every URL (If you have
Rotate ALL
URLs selected) for each Proxy server in the list. This process
can take many hours - even weeks to complete - and it is why we recommend
that you leave the computer powered on, and the program running
continuously; if you shut the computer off and restart it later,
or exit Rank Enhancer, when the program is restarted, it will
not pick up where it left off. Instead, the program will start
from the beginning. The result of this is that some of the URLs
in the rotation may never get "sent to", and some of the Proxy
servers in the list may never get used. I use an old PC that I
had lying around, and use it to run Rank Enhancer continuously -
24 / 7 - with 15 Threads
selected (Rank Enhancer STEP 2).
Note that MOST
Pentium-class machines with at least 512Mb of memory can handle 15 iterations (15 Threads
selected in
STEP 2)
of Rank
Enhancer running. If there is nothing else running on the machine, you can start
another COPY
of Rank Enhancer, and use a different URL list and a different Proxy list, and
run as many COPIES
as your PC and Internet connection will handle.
See "Neat Trick", below. However, doing this eventually
slows the programs down for lack of system resources and/or lack of Internet
bandwidth (such as on a dial-up or DSL line), and you reach a point of
diminishing returns.
Rank Enhancer
Files and Functions
The following list refers to
location of files in the installed program
C:\Program Files\RankEnhancer\RankEnhancer\Files\URL-List.txt
- The
URL
list the program creates & uses in its submissions.
C:\Program Files\RankEnhancer\RankEnhancer\Files\Proxy.txt
- The
Proxy
server
list the program creates & uses. This list
C:\Program Files\RankEnhancer\RankEnhancer\Files\Proxy-List.txt
- This file contains the path & filename of the currently used
Proxy
list.
C:\Program Files\RankEnhancer\RankEnhancer\Sessions\SessionsGoHere.txt
-
Program comment file ("read me").
C:\Program Files\RankEnhancer\RankEnhancer\Sessions\Session_mm_dd_yy.txt
- List of all the good Proxy sites that responded "OK" to the
program's "taps". The
mm_dd_yy
in the file name
are the
month /
day / year
the file was created. You can use this list as a Proxy List
because it contains ONLY the Proxy servers that responded "OK"
to the program's pings. In order to create a good list from the
session files, you must delete all the duplicate entries. See "Creating a Proxy List",
"Adding Proxy Servers", and "Culling
Duplicates" (above).
A Final "Neat
Trick" with Rank Enhancer
Another neat
thing you can do with Rank Enhancer that is not mentioned in the
original program's documentation (which is sadly, essentially
non-existent), is that you can run MULTIPLE
copies of the program (if your PC's resources permit it). Below
is a screen shot of six (6)
COPIES of Rank Enhancer running
simultaneously, each set to a different URL, using the Proxy
Server list we supply as part of the package. Also running is a
copy of
AdBlaster, which automatically posts advertisements for
my Web sites. In my case, I have devoted an old Compaq Deskpro I
no longer use, to run these programs simultaneously and
continuously; that is all that particular PC is used for.
To
get your own copy of AdBlaster, click the banner ad below
These two programs used together,
will definitely get your site noticed!
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enter your web address into the system so that the Alexa engine
can crawl your Web site and start gathering the required
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explains how to do this.
This product sells for $39.95 elsewhere on the Internet. We are offering this product for $29.95 and
are including this enhanced documentation, and a list of over
8,000 tested & working proxy
sites in addition to the "default" proxy list supplied by
the manufacturer. This will enable you to blast your Web
site URLs to Proxy servers practically every civilized
country on the planet.
This software tricks these proxy
servers into maintaining your Web site pages in their system
"cache", which has the added effect of making your pages
load faster for the end-users because each user does not
have to go to your IPP to fetch the pages; they are served
out by their ISP's local proxy servers.
We also include this enhanced program documentation that will enable even a novice use this
program to its full potential right away.
I
have seen some really amazing software in my 38 years in the
computer business, but this piece of software is simple,
compact, and is a "must have" for every Webmaster trying to
establish a significant "footprint" in Cyberspace.
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