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I’ve seen these small buttons on a lot of different blogs

and finally I decided to try them also on my blog (for 2 days only). Blogtoplist is a sort of “Directory” for blogs with a lot of different categories. All you have to do to get included in this directory is to register an account, add your blog and place one of the small buttons shown in the image on your website to start tracking statistics and climb the blog list to the top. Your visitors can vote through these buttons for your blog, each vote counts as 100 unique visitors. However the buttons will also track the normal traffic you recieve (even if your visitors don’t vote for you) and the more you get, the higher you will be ranked on Blogtoplist.

I added the button on my blog and started to recieve some clicks but it was actually impossible to compete with the top sites (and if you don’t get on the main page of Blogtoplist.com, you won’t recieve much traffic). The blog ranking first on the main page of Blogtoplist recieves nearly 200.000 unique visitors every day and has an Alexa ranking of 571!

 What?

There is a blog with such traffic and I never heared anything about it? Something strange is going on here…

This is the url of the blog that occupies position #1: http://gigistudio.over-blog.com/. A blog with such traffic should recieve lots of comments and trackbacks every day but after a closer look on the posts I realized that:

• the content is poor (mostly videos and images)
• most of the posts have no comments or trackbacks
• the blog is spammed with advertisements

And what about the domain? It is only a subdomain!

In fact, Over-blog is a French blog service very similar to ”Blogspot” or “Wordpress” that is giving you the possibility to register free blogs and recieve a subdomain of your choice. There are actually more than 500.000 registered blogs.

The problem (or maybe the good thing) is that every subdomain has the Alexa ranking of www.over-blog.com ! Every blog registered there will have an Alexa Ranking of 571! That’s why the blog is ranking first on Blogtoplist.com.

Another very interesting point are the clicks that the TOP 10 blogs are recieving from Blogtoplist. They get between 100 and 800 unique visitors from Blogtoplist every single day!

Now, how can I give my blog a big traffic boost?

Nothing easier than this…

• Register at Over-Blog.com and create a new blog (if you don’t know french language you can use Google’s language tools to traduce the website)
• Register your blog at Blogtoplist.com
• Place a tracker button on the new blog

Now sit back and watch your new blog climbing the TOP 10 of Blogtoplist.com.

And finally here is the evil plan to drive the traffic directly to your blog :

Make a redirect so that all visitors coming from blogtoplist.com are redirected to your REAL blog!

And this is the evil plan to make money out of it :

What if you build up a blog for one month with 30-40 unique articles and get it approved on websites like Reviewme?

The review me price would be incredibly high because it is based on Alexa ranking and Technorati ranking (even if you have a low Technorati ranking, the Alexa ranking alone will boost the price) and if you find someone that really believes that the shown Alexa ranking is yours, than you are going to make a lot of money.

I don’t think I’m going to try this technique because I’m a serious blogger, (or maybe I give it a try) but if someone is going to use this technique after reading this article, please let me know how it works.

If you get hundreds of uniques each day remeber who gave you the tip and buy me a coffee by clicking the link at the end of this post