- Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension ToolBar (which i have it on my sidebar) and set your blog as your homepage. This is the most basic step.
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Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website. I did this a few days ago and receive a fair amount of clicks every day.
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Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar. This includes friends, fellow webmasters as well as site visitors/blog readers.
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Work in an Office? Get the Alexa toolbar or SS Firefox extension installed on all computers and set your website as the homepage for all browsers.
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Get friends to review and rate your Alexa website profile. Not entirely sure of its impact on rankings but it might help in some way.
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Write or Blog about Alexa. Webmaster and bloggers love to hear about ways to increase their Alexa rank. They’ll link to you or visit your blog, which helps with your traffic rank.
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Flaunt your URL in webmaster forums. Webmasters usually have the toolbar installed. I like doing this for a few reasons. You’ll get webmasters to visit your website and get some feedback in return. It’s also a good way to give back to the community.
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Write content that is related to webmasters. This can fall in the category of domaining and SEO, two fields in which most webmasters will have the Alexa toolbar installed. Promote your content on social networking websites and webmaster forums.
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Use Alexa redirects on your website URL. Try this: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.successevermore.com . Replace successevermore.com with the URL for your website. Leave this redirected URL in blog comments as well as forum signatures. This redirect will count a unique IP address once a day so clicking it multiple times won’t help.
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Post in Asian social networking websites or forums. Some have suggested that Asian (Korean or Hong Kong) web users are big Alexa toolbar fans.
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Create a webmaster tools section on your website. This is a magnet for webmasters who will often visit your website to use the tools. Aaron Wall’s webpage on SEOTools is a very good example.
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Get Dugg or Stumbled. This usually brings massive numbers of visitors to your website and the sheer amount will have a positive impact on your Alexa Rank. Of course, you’ll have to develop link worthy material.
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Use PayperClick Campaigns. Buying advertisements on search engines such as Google or Exact Seek will help bring in Traffic. Doubly useful when your ad is about webmaster/tech related products/content.
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Use MySpace . This is a little shady so I don’t recommended it unless you’re really interested in artificially inflating your Alexa Rank. Use visually attractive (wierd/sexy/funny) pictures or banners and link them to your redirected Alexa URL. You’ll get a lot of clicks but it doesn’t mean people are visiting your website.
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Buy banners and links for traffic from webmaster forums and websites. A prominent and well displayed ad will drive lots of webmaster traffic to your website, which can significantly boost your rank.
15 ways to soar your ranking in Alexa!
To increase your Alexa rank in the long term, I would suggest coming up with quality content which draws and maintains a large audience. This is an excellent way to passively increase your Alexa rank. Here are the 15 ways:
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Filed: Blogging Tips
9 Responses to "15 ways to soar your ranking in Alexa!"
June 19, 2007 10:19 PM
very great tip!thanks
July 29, 2007 3:46 PM
Some great tips, thanks man! http://auctionadsonline.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the wealth of info on Alexa.
Starting A Home Business
15 alexa tips is just great!
October 7, 2008 9:17 AM
Alexa is one of the best sites on the web. They have helped our website www.PunchoStewart.com to become one of the most searched websites on the internet. Our company uses Alexa every chance that we get. Their graphics and their information keeps us coming back for more. We went from a small company to a 100 million dollar company in just over two years. We owe just about all of our success to Alexa. I hope that in the near future that they will continue to provide us with their kindness and not to mention, their continued support. The staff at Alexa is second to none. The exposure that they give your website has no equal. I wish that I owned Alexa, because if I did, I would run it just like them.
Frank Stevens
CFO
www.PunchoStewart.com
March 1, 2009 2:47 AM
Thanks For Sharing this post with us . Very informative
May 27, 2009 5:01 AM
Thanks for sharing this information to us. This is very informative especially for people who wanted their ranking on Alexa raise higher.
July 15, 2009 2:39 PM
Alexa ranking is really important for most of the webmaster. They really consider it. Nice information to gain better rank. Thanks
August 7, 2009 1:45 PM
I wonder does ranking well in alexa matter so much as ranking well in Google or Yahoo.
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