Tips to Improve Your Alexa Ranking
October 11, 2007
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My last post about How important is alexa ranking, stated everything about alexa ranking and now will give some tips about how to improve your alexa ranking. If you want to boost your Alexa traffic ranking, you just have to follow some quite simple rules, such as:
Honest ways
- Download and install the Alexa toolbar and then surf your own site.
- Place the Alexa widget on your Web site. It will entice visitors to check it out and, you know, each click counts.
- Write useful, quality content, mostly webmaster-related. Promote it on webmaster forums and on social networking sites. The idea is to get as many computer and Internet savvy people as possible to visit your site, since the probability that they will have the Alexa toolbar installed is high.
- Write blogs and articles about Alexa. You will get links to your pages that will help improve your ranking.
- Try to get your articles on such blog sites as digg.com, del.icio.us, or www.stumbleupon.com
- Optimize your site (or relevant pages of it) for Alexa related keywords.
- Tell your friends about the Alexa toolbar, have them download and install it on their computers, and then tell them to visit your site.
- Use an Alexa redirect. This means placing http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect? in front of your Web site’s URL. Alexa will then take into consideration clicks on redirected links even if the visitor does not have the Alexa toolbar. Example: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.googlelady.com
- Apparently, Asian people are huge fans of Alexa. Therefore, many people suggest posting in Asian social networking forums.
- Whenever you post on webmaster forums, include your site’s URL in your signature. It is very likely that most webmasters have the toolbar installed, and there’s a great probability that they’ll visit your site.
Bad ways
In How important is alexa ranking it mentioned that the system can be gamed (or fooled), here are some ways to do it but IS NOT RECOMMENDED (this is just for educational purpose ONLY).
- If you have a cafe internet or a friend that has one, install on each computer the alexa toolbar and make your site the default one.
- Use some alexa autosurf: Check the list here but this method is not recommended in anyways because it will affect your Google ranking. Google states that those type of traffic are garbage.
- There are many scripts that can boost your alexa ranking. Those scripts uses multiple proxy servers to create unlimited traffic(visitors) to your website. You can download it Here, check here and Google results
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October 11th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Why would you want to link to Alexa? (http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.googlelady.com)
just stick to this one: Get others to visit you that have the toolbar installed. I am not too worried about it.
October 11th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
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October 11th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Alexa rankings are basically meaningless because they are so easy to manipulate. While it may make you feel better to see your ranking higher, I would suggest that your time would be better spent on other areas of your blog that could really help it…
October 12th, 2007 at 12:11 am
WarriorBlog: That was a tip…
Financial hack: Yes that’s true about that are easy to manipulate (I think till under 100k) and people should focuss in other areas of their own blogs.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:06 am
This is a good post and the best thing that I liked about it is the classification of the tips in ‘Honest’ and ‘bad’.
@warriorblog : if you maintain blog with complete efforts devoted to content making then you don’t need such a link. Alexa ranking, Google pagerank are means of site promotion. Position of your pages on search results by Alexa and Google depends on these factors. So if you are trying to inprove Alexa ranking or Google Pagerank who are trying to improve your position in search results and which in turn will result in more traffic. by adding a redirection link from alexa you are including traffic from people with no alexa toolbar to be considered for ranking, and you are not gaming the system in doing this and it’s fair. Those who do it, they do on their risk and sometimes have to pay for it.
I recommend visiting my stats page http://jalaj.net/stats where you can see how pagerank affect your position and subsequent traffic for same or same+additional contents. The traffic hit was due to my change of domain and resulting drop of PR4 on original site, which I acquired with no efforts other than content addition.
October 13th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
The Alexa ranking system is extremely flawed. Anyone that has ever taken a Statistics course would know that the sample size is too small to make any real impact.
For extremely large sites (visitor wise) it’s at least semi-relevant but for small sites the rank means almost nothing. Webmasters just install the code and then surf their own sites and the rankings go down the drain.
October 13th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
I have the toolbar installed but over the last week my rank has not changed at all. Was kinda weird when I first installed it my rank went to 970k and now look at it. I don’t understand how this works at all.
November 10th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
ok a small update for anyone who reads this post still. Bitching to Alexa like I have alot when I notice my rank does not increase helps alot. I have recieved lots of emails from poeple who have said because of my bitching there ranks have gotten better as well. They kind just sit there and don’t do much unless people complain. My rank is now under 400k
November 10th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Thanks Collin for your progress update
March 19th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
You can improve your rank by running some google adwords to your blog or site from time to time. Of course you would only do this if it were profitable in the end, but the extra traffic isn’t all that bad.
April 8th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Well the redirection it´s not valid now.
April 8th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Yeah finally they have fixed that bug.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:06 am
Good tips, although I’m pretty sure the redirect thing doesn’t work anymore. Still though, you’re correct about the stats being skewed to more webmaster oriented sites and posting in webmaster forums is a great idea.