Increase Alexa Ranking
Just how essential is Alexa Ranking for your blog? How a better Alexa ranking will earn you more money? Well it depends who you ask. Personally I never cared for Alexa as I am not a fan of tool bars and the less programs runs in the background in my computer the better. If you run ads in blog or website, a high Alexa ranking will attract more advertisers and the better the ranking the more advertisers will be interested in advertising on your site and you will make money.
Here are 8 ways to improve your Alexa ranking based on tips from friend blogs and some that I gathered around the internet. Right now my ranking is 16,966,271 and this blog is just about a week old. I am following these 8 tips and I will give an update to see if these tips works or not. My target is to get under the 1 million mark in 30 days.
Don’t forget that good content will bring audience and visitors regularly that will eventually help your ranking with Alexa but for the meantime try these 8 tips and see for yourself.
1. Install the Alexa toolbar so you help your blog ranking every time you visit your own blog. Do this to all of your computers (home, office, laptop, etc) This is the easiest and most basic step.
2. Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar. This includes friends, fellow webmasters as well as site visitors/blog readers. Be sure to link to Alexa’s full explanation of their toolbar and tracking system so your readers know what installing the toolbar or extension entails.
3. Write or Blog about Alexa. Webmaster and bloggers love to hear about ways to increase their Alexa rank. They’ll link to you and send you targeted traffic (i.e. visitors with the toolbar already installed). This is what I’m doing right now.
4. Parade your URL in webmaster/blog and other forums. Webmasters usually have the toolbar installed. You’ll get webmasters to visit your website and offer useful feedback. It’s also a good way to give back to the community if you have useful articles to share with others.
5. Write an article that is related to webmasters. This can fall in the category of domain and SEO, two fields in which most webmasters will have the Alexa toolbar installed. Promote your content on social networking websites and webmaster forums.
6. Install Alexa widget. Some bloggers say this help them with Alexa ranking but some people say it doesn’t matter whether you have an Alexa widget or not. I guess I have to try it to see if it does work or not.
7. Use Social Networking/Bookmarking sites. This usually brings good numbers of visitors to your website and it will have a positive impact on your Alexa Rank. Naturally, you’ll need to develop a link worthy material. Try Digg, Reddit and Stumble Upon.
8. Create an Alexa category on your blog and use it to include any articles or news about Alexa. This acts as an easily accessible resource for webmasters or casual search visitors while helping you rank in the search engines.
If you got any Alexa tips to add please don’t hesitate to add it on the comment box below. Looking forward for your comments.
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It is very informative.lot of people did not give the preference to Alexa raking they just thought about the google ranking
You’re under 450,000 now. Very impressive and keep up the good work. Can’t believe this blog is so young!
Thanks Chris. Yeah this blog is only 1.5 months old…and there’s so much to learn
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Ranking shows your status, the people in www world whom you are ahead. It shows people like to visit on your site because you have shared a good idea or information and promoted it very nice. I like the points mentioned here.
Glad you like it.
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I think you wrote this blog for achieving point 3.
I wrote this because I want to share it to everyone but yes I wrote it also to improve my Alexa ranking.
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If you want to place advertisement on your than alexa ranking of your site matter lot.
All the advertiser check the alexa ranking before giving their ads.
Yes I think that’s true Jhon.
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Very useful info. I have wrestled with the whole Toolbar issue as I also like to run with the least amount of add-ons to slow me down or cause weird problems. Your post has me motivated to revisit the Alexa Ranking area. Thanks for the insights.
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Alexa Tool bar is really helpful. You can see which blog you are visiting has high ranking and which one is only pure hype. Plus it also helped your blog/site in some way.
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Everytime I search for this topic, I keep bumping into this blog heh.
Hello Ginger, this article is in the top 3 pages of Google search result. It was in 2nd last month. Thanks for the visit.
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Thanks for the great tip, I was really searching for articles to boost up mu site’s Alexa’s rank. It is a recent startup and I think this will help me a lot. Wanna be a guest blogger in my site. Will provide you backlink in the sidebar
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Thank you for the offer Anthrax but I got barely enough time for blogging and having a hard time balancing my time. But I will contact you if I can get some free time.
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Holly crap, what you have accomplished in a short amount of time is incredible. You are a short diatance away from top 100k mark!
I have been working hard on my site/store for a couple months now and have dropped to near the one million mark so I’m hoping the trend continues.
Yes Allan if you work for it then you will get it. Thanks for dropping by.
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Is there much benefit to having an improved Alexa ranking? I guess for benchmarking and progression you could use it as a comparison but other than install the toolbar on my own computer, I haven’t actively tried to improve it.
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The main benefit is you can tell the whole world hows your blog or site is doing. And yes it somehow attract advertisers. Some advertisers will check if you are in top 100k before they will pay you to advertise their products.
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I have just started looking into the importance of Alexa ranking and appreciate this information. I am impressed to see that you have increased the ranking of this blog so quickly. I am in the process of working on the same goal and have been gaining traffic but not at your pace. I hope to be under the 1 million mark in the next few weeks.
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Gooduck to you Kidgas.
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Ey Zee! I now have a PR and my Alexa Stats increased! Thanks again!
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Congrats Sernan! I can see you got PR3 now on your blog. That’s nice achievement already as other blogs doesn’t even got any PR’s. I didn’t increase mine but some of my pages gained a PR too.
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I see you made good use of tip number 3
. But that is a great way to target Alexa users. I mean, you got me!
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Yeah so at least we know it works right? Thanks for leaving your comment Tom.
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not a big fan of alexa either, but i check my alexa just for fun
congrats,
anyways, nice points, and as i see this article is a few months old and in that time your alexa rank has improved many folds, now its about 160k which means you will be getting into the 100k soon
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Thank you. But it looks like I’m hitting my peak at the moment as I go back and forth between 150k and 160k for the past few weeks. Seems like my current traffic is rank about 155k at the moment. I need to improve my traffic further to get to the 100k mark.
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