8 Ways to Increase Alexa Rank
How can you increase your Alexa rank? Alexa is a subsidiary of Amazon.com. It is a ranking system based on the level of traffic a website receives from people with the Alexa toolbar installed.
You may want to increase your Alexa rank because advertisers, ad networkers use it as a gauge to determine the popularity of your blog. So if you are someone who is making money from advertising, you would definitely want to increase your alexa rank as it helps you bargain for an ad price. Sites like reviewme.com determines review price based on your Technorati rank and Alexa rank.
Increase Alexa Ranking
- Download Alexa toolbar free. If you are using Firefox, I recommend you to use another plug-in called SearchStatus which not only displays the Alexa rank but it also shows page rank details, no follow links, meta tags, keyword density of a page etc
- Put an Alexa rank widget on your blog. Each click will be counted as a visitor.
- Encourage your friends or colleagues to use Alexa toolbar. Explain them about the tracking system of the toolbar. Ask them to rate your Alexa website profile.
- Try to get dugg or stumbled. This will bring massive amount of traffic to your site and contributes a lot to your Alexa rank.
- Write content related to webmasters. This is because most of the webmasters use Alexa toolbar. You may write and post articles related to SEO, webmaster tools. Webmasters always look for new tools and may revisit your website to gain access to the tools. Promote your articles on webmaster forums and social networking sites.
- Buy links and banners from webmaster forums. A well displayed ad can bring lots of webmaster traffic to your site and boost your rank. But you need to have unique and good content on your blog to attract more and more visitors.
- Write about Alexa and post in your blog. Bloggers love to know about different ways of increasing their Alexa rank. This may eventually increase traffic and your rank.
- You may try Alexa autosurfs for a new site or blog. They may work for new sites having almost zero Alexa rank. But they are not a long term solution.
This article is written by guest author Indu Priya, an online marketer from theideashome.com. She is a traffic expert and offers traffic building services to small business owners. Get her FREE ebook on how to drive 100+ traffic per day. You can also do guest blogging on QOT and share your expert opinions.
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Good resource. I would like to know if links from Facebook and twitter are counted as direct back links anymore and helps in Alexa ranking in any possible way. Can you throw some more light on it?
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Saurabh from Teacoffeebible.com
The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis.
The main Alexa traffic rank is based on the geometric mean of these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users)
Hey, I’m new blogger and I want to know lots of things about blogging and i personally think that I am in right place. You mentioned about Alexa ranking and Really you mentioned lots of things which is totally new for me. specially to get dugg or stumbled and i will be taking advantage through this. Thanks
earlier i was unaware of alexa ranking but now i know the importance of it. Now i’m going to install alexa toolbar on my mozilla browser. Thanks for sharing this precious info.
Jess
Great post. I must admit I check my Alexa ranking a couple times a week and my website has only been up for regular posting less than six weeks. I do love tracking it though and hope to be under 1,00,000 soon…but I have a long way to go.
Nice explanation. There are online surfing websites like alexaboostup.com are available that increase alexa ranking as well.
To boost Alexa Rank just add your website at http://www.alexaboostup.com your site will be visited by alexa toolbar surfers.
Its free to use.
Thanks for your advices. I will try it, and I hope I can get a better ALEXA Rank as soon as possible. Have a nice days… ^_^
I never knew that Alexa got their information from the Alexa toolbar… That means I could be getting a ton of views, but if nobody was using the Alexa toolbar when they viewed my site. Thank you..
very usefull article iwant to ask one thing i use alexa widget but it doesnt work now why?
nice content and like the above given to improve alexa rankings i sure i work for this and see it really working or not
Nice tips.Mine is a newbie blog will implement these tips and see if the rank improves thanks a lot
Good article, I have installed the alexa toolbar to my firefox and it shows 4,871,075 .. Thank you :)
I noticed when FireFox announcing a new version of browser, the ratings of Alexa takes a down. Why? Alexa plugin is not always on time adapted to the new version of the browser (ex. FireFox 6.0.) and we lose precious days and rating, after users don’t always update of plug-Alexa.
I’ll try several ways from this, but I think I forget some points. Thank you for this info
Thanks for the tips. Mainly about the Mozilla addon.
and some diff question,
Which is better digging or delicious?
Do they have good impact to increase the traffic?
Thanks for your wonderful article.Forum marketing is also one the best way to get huge traffic and it increase alexa traffic rank.2 months back one of my site got 1,21,12,456. I already followed almost all your tips .But i don’t know about your 8th point…Lets try.And Last but not in list now my site alexa rank is 5,76,843….
Thanks for the info. I did try this in one of my old blog and it’s working.
could you please explain about alexa autosurfs?
how to place alexa widget on my website?
Thanks for the wonderful share…. I am going to add alexa toolbar to my site too…. :D Hope it helps me … :D
I think nowadays having good Alexa rank doesn’t matter at all. Moreover Alexa gathers traffic from users who have installed Alexa tool bar. Many people may not have installed Alexa toolbar. Having good Alexa rank may not mean that the site is having good traffic.
Obviously very well written and useful, thank you very much for sharing this…
7 awesome idea.. Surprisingly I am following all these ideas. However I didn’t like the last the tip – using auto surfs and I recommmend others to do so.
Does having the alexa widget really help?
I am not seeing any change in my alexa ranking, although I have very high traffic as per GA, which is not reflected in my alexa rank
I did my research. I spent sometime to modify everything on my website. I purchased ads from Facebook, Google, Yahoo. I did not see the alexa traffic do anything on my website. I can easily get into under 600K rank for Alexa rank in 1 month. I did not do anything like Terrence say here. I run ads on Facebook, Google and Yahoo. My budget is so low $5.00/day. I purchase the ads based on impression. The traffic is up and down. I have regular 3K-10K visit in daily basis. Beside running the ads on all the big network I also spread the words to all my friends and ask them to let their friends know about my website.
I do not spam or buy fake traffic. I do not do that because I heard Google and Alexa can drop your ranks and result in search if you do that.
One thing I notice the rank on Alexa is not based on your traffic because if they do that your rank will go and up any time you check your rank. I think they refer your rank based on the search result on Google.
Try it go to google and type your website domain. Take a note how many search result come up under your website domain. Now go to alexa and do your rank. Take a note again.
Redo this step in 48 hours. If the number of the result is stay the same. I can bet you your rank will stay the same.
I monitor alexa rank within 3 weeks and that is my investigation.
Do not use any script because it does not do anything. Do not use the redirect because it does not work. Do not buy fake traffic buy ads on Facebook, Google and Yahoo. It does do something to your traffic.
Update your website often so your visitor know you work hard for your website.
At least Good Luck.
thanks for the tip man ;-)
I want some effective ways to boost my alexa rank..Give me some best ideas to boost rank
I really don’t understand how Alexa works?
My site 2 months ago has very high ranking but now it’s very low…
A few people recommended alexage .They brought my site to Alexa’s top 50K in less than 90 days
Ya me to! I move up 2 in a half milion places using upalexarank.com, it’s pretty awesome how fast they work and I’ve already used them a few times. :)
I’ve been using upalexarank.com, I was at 4.8 million on Alexa, and now am at 700,000!
A few people recommended alexage.com .They brought my site to Alexa’s top 50K in less than 90 days
I have agreat website to improve Alexa rank for your site, you should check out http://www.alexage.com.
They brought my site to Alexa’s top 50K in less than 90 days
Nice Article Its Very Helpful For Newbies Like Me.. Thanks for sharing :D
All set, now waiting for improvement in my blog’s ranking
i tried to use these 8 tips for ALEXA ranking and i notice that work and started fro 1,5 milion til about 270000 and continue decreasing, thanks
If you can drive just 2000 clicks to your website and have 200 people sign up every day? That’s a big achievement.
I use Alexa to measure my success but I mostly check on daily clicks and daily sign up.
The key is to stay small and target your market. Work on small region or continent or country. You need to run ads on the big player site. Don’t spend big. Try small and limit your budget. Go to forum and befriend with people. You can start with your friends or coworkers. Whether you have blog, online store or other? It’s depend on the way you market your website. Other stuff you need to know?
1. Make your site as easy as possible to navigate
2. Write in simple words
3. Update often
4. Write something you like and you are expert in
5. Google before you write that article
6. If you have online store? You must use google or Yahoo to advertise your site. Sell local on Craigslist and EBay or Amazon
7. Register on Google business
8. Register on Google webmaster tool
9. Submit your site to these engines Google, Yahoo, Msn, AOL, Bing
10. Type your website to kick the spider bot to craw
11. Do it often and your website will be on cache.
12. To get the traffic? Do not spend your money on traffic banks!! Buy ads from big engines. You can target the specific market and demography. You can control your budget. Believe. I have done it for some of my clients site and they have regular hits.
I want to increase my “Sromobazar.com :: Faster growing job and overseas education” site ranking & to get lots of traffic. I will follow this tips. I think it will be effective others who wants to increase their site popular by using the tips.
Hi, A very good post!
Thanks for the great info!
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Or any website owner is open to be contacted to me for Links Exchange!
Thank You!
nah.. all were essentially the same, more traffic more high Alexa rank
I will follow this tips and report back on how well i did.
An interesting article , special tip number 2 and 3
and i want further work more about number 2.
“Alexa rank widget” and “Each click will be counted as a visitor”.
more more of this kind article, thanks again
Its really good way to Increase Alexa Rank. I applied some of this and get a good result in my website —–http://www.sromobazar.com.
Thanks for such post.
Thank for sharing.My alexa rank currently down.I hope I can increase better rank after this=)
Thanks For sharing this articles.It will very useful increase rank.Can you give some more another ways to improve rank.
Thanks for sharing Alexa tips. I’m starting with my new blog with your Alexa increasing tips.
I find Alexa such a pain…my unqiue visitors and page views are going up and up, yet my Alexa rank is slowly falling, at this rate I will be out of the top 100,000 soon.
I guess I now have to actually start making an effort to improve things…
Alexa Ranking is really important if you are planning to monetize your blog.
I am a blogger and definitely increase my alexa ranking but want real visitor to get me good sum with my adsense account. May I know few ways to get lots of traffic to my blog.
Traffic especially from webmasters will really improve our alexa rank because most of them have alexa toolbar installed in their browser.
Alexa rankings can decrease (which is a good thing) very fast initially but once you reach 200,000, it becomes very tough to decrease it even further because then you are competing with the big daddies of the web-world. Thanks for the article.
nice content but does it really it works?
My blogspot blog was able to make a great leap on Alexa Ranking. Now that i change the it to a custom domain name, check how it increases so fast everyday:
August 30, 2010 = 13,916,124
September 1, 2010 = 9,308,432
September 3, 2010 = 8,055,410
September 4, 2010 = 5,345,801
September 4, 2010 @ 6 PM = 4,335,422
September 5, 2010 = 4,165,708
september 6, 2010 = 3,617,942
September 7, 2010 = 2,764,041
September 8, 2010 = 2,496,166
Try the exact method that i’ve been using:
How to Increase Alexa Rank
Why my alexa rank is down…
Good tips given to improve Alexa ranking of website. These tips are valuable in increasing Alexa rank, but this process is slow. If you want to quickly improve your website rankings, then you can buy services of third party
Currently I am using alexa widget,tool bar and now I am going to use auto surf trich as you mentioned.
Alexa.com is full of BS! Totally unreliable page ranking system and traffic stats! Easily manipulate your page rank by downloading and installing the Alexa Toolbar then browse the pages of your own website and see your page rank improve by 50,000 or more. Unless the website is in the Top 1000, all data from Alexa is a bunch of crap! Not recommended for use as a basis for website performance whatsoever!
Alexa Toolbar is the best idea, I believe. And, the widget is the next best.
I’ve been using the firefox version of it i.e. Alexa Sparky and it definitely helps increase the blog rank of sites I visit.
I have visited many blogs with have articles increasing alexa page rank, I guess not much different way. great post
i think alexa rank doesn’t matter until to reach 1,00,000
Great tips but I don’t need all of them to boost my alexa traffic ;)
Thanks for sharing.
I don’t thinks that all step will help to increase ranking.
I agree. I don’t think it will really increase you ranking if you focus on that way.
Interesting post.
However, if you copy and paste that first paragraph into google you will find it has been copied many times. I’m also fairly positive that those tips have aswell, without any changes being made to them.
I love this blog, but think you or the team need to be careful in the future when it comes to guest posting.