Websites Battle in Kurdistan.. Thousands of dollars to bring fake fighters
appeared to evaluate sites and arrange them according to fame and power.
The order of Alexa site is one of those criteria to depend on to evaluate sites which determine advertising rates on these sites. From the commercial side that is not subjected to technical standards.
Alexa Website www.alexa.com is a website belonging to widespread Amazon US company, and specializes in inventory statistics and the order of the websites that analyze Statistics of its own in terms of the number of visitors and the search for them, it was named in honor of the Library of ancient Alexandria as the first library known to mankind.
Because of the extreme importance of the order of many sites on the Alexa site, the owners of sites have resorted to follow the illegal ways to increase its ranking and occupy today very advanced positions on the order of Iraq.
After increasing importance of Alexa for webmasters, some companies that sell "fake visits" to site in several ways , the most famous is linking the website by increasing the number of visits to one of the file storage sites, known as "servers", which record a huge number of visits.
The expert in the electronic sites and marketing them , Ali Najim told Shafaq News, that " some of the news and entertainment websites resorted to subscribe to sites that provide fake visits and lift the range on Alexa site, as we began to note, for example, sites ... engaged the forefront from the local and international Iraqi side which is clear to the people of experience."
He mentioned the existence of more than one billion of the world's Website , it is unreasonable that the Iraqi sites reach one thousand or two thousand or even ten thousand within this space and it is well known that the Internet users in Iraq is limited.
He said that more sites that resort to these tricks are within Kurdistan Region.
Within Shafer News search for sites that included fake visits show a site selling fake visits that start from $ 100 and arrived in the range of $ 3000 per month.
According to Najim, most websites have high ratings in Alexa participate in the annual plan, which must pay the participation of up to more than 30 thousand dollars.
Saman al-Jaff , expert software sites told Shafaq News, that there is a big difference between Google to Alexa affiliated to Amazon site.
He said that Google site is the most accurate universally, we noted that the classified sites best twenty in terms of the visit, ranging power between zero to 3 according to Alexa, something most logical and realistic, if we take into account that the majority of sites within the scope of Kurdistan Region with five million people compared to Iraq.
It is noted that Kurdish sites took the local side being offers their services in most in Sorani Kurdish dialect, and because of the complex political composition in Kurdistan, the pioneers of these sites and even satellite television has become regionally follow each institution, according to their subordination and orientations.
Al-Jaff says that one of the Kurdish sites which assume an arrangement among the ten most visited sites in Iraq occupies a rating on the assessment of Google site by an evaluation of zero degree.
He asked, "Is it reasonable for websites to register more advanced rating than the global Twitter site or tens of porn sites?
On the reason that there are many sites collected small degrees in Google evaluation Contrary to Alexa site and others, Al-Jaff says "Google site depended on specific criteria to evaluate sites including not to deal with private visits and raise the range of fake companies on Alexa, but the majority of Kurdish sites and some other Iraqi sites adopt this approach and relies on completion and try to get ads.
He added that "discreet companies looking for ads are based on the knowledge of the power of the site through Google evaluation or through the server of the site which gives precise details of entrants Visitors to the site visits away from the fake companies".
