measured by the number of visits by visitors to your blog with the
Alexa Toolbar installed. In this article, we will examine some sure
shot methods that will increase your Alexa Ranking and improve the overall web site ranking of your Blog or website.
What is the Alexa Rank?
Alexa traffic Rank is based on the number of visits each website receives
from the people who visit that particular website with the Alexa
Toolbar installed.Alexa defines its Alexa Traffic Rank 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)
Why would you want to Increase your Alexa Rank?
AlexaRankings are terribly flawed simply because it bases your Alexa Rank
only on the visitors to your blog who have the Alexa Toolbar installed.
Unfortunately the Alexa Rank is still one of the primary factors in
determining the popularity of a website and determining its worth. Even
at my VC company, we use Alexa Rankings but we also supplement that
with our own metrics and other metrics provided by sites such as
compete.com.
Besides showing your website or blog popularity,
your Alexa Rank determines how much you can make from Make Money Online
programs such as ReviewMe, Text Link Ads etc who determine your ad
strength based on your Alexa Rankings. So in simple words, if you want
to make more money, you better take steps to improve your Alexa Rank
The
list shown here only gives you proven methods and tips that will
definitely help increase your Alexa Rank. The tips below are shown in
order of importance
Tip # 1: Install the Alexa Toolbar
The first step is download the Alexa Toolbar
and after you install it, set your website as the homepage. Alexa gives
a hit per unique IP address. So you need not keep clicking and visiting
your own blog or website multiple times. Also this toolbar is for
Internet Explorer users. So for those who use Firefox as their primary
browser, you can use SearchStatus, a Alexa Ranking extention for Firefox and Mozilla Browsers.
Your
Alexa Toolbar also includes a pop up blocker and besides showing you
the Alexa Rank, you can also see other relevant information of the
website you are visiting such as Contact information, Related Links and
also a Search bar.
You can also customize the Alexa Toolbar to include your Logo built in and customize it here
http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/associatetoolbar.html
Tip # 2: Use the Alexa Redirect
Using
an Alexa redirect will give search engines a (301) permanent redirect.
This redirect is search engine friendly. This Alexa Redirect looks like
http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.buridcommunity.com
What
this is doing is still taking to my Blog’s homepage but doing an Alexa
redirect on the way which would register as a hit in Alexa and adds to
your Alexa Ranking even if that particular visitor does not have the
Alexa Toolbar installed. Click on the link below to find out what I mean.
Replace www.buridcommunity.com with the URL of your own Blog and start using the Alexa redirect on your internal URLs.
Tip # 3: Write Quality content
This
is a given. The more quality content you write, the more people love it
and search engines love it. The more people love it, the more likely
they are to link to you bringing you additional traffic who people who
might have the Alexa Toolbar installed. The same goes with search
engines. Also you might get stumbled, get submitted to Digg or Reddit
which will inturn bring in more visitors. Also, when DIgg overtook
Slashdot, a bunch of Diggers installed the Alexa Toolbar. It is very
likely that they still have it. While you can only game the Alexa
Rankings so much, the math is simple
quality content = more visitors = higher Alexa Rank
Tip # 4: Post your URL everywhere
Visit
forums releated to your topic or anywhere else, when you post a
comment, make sure you put the URL of your blog in there. Also, when
you post the URL, make sure its through the Alexa Redirect as shown in
Tip # 2 above
Tip # 5: Try Alexa Auto surf programs
One
of the best Auto surf programs I have seen is through upmyrank.com. You
need the Alexa Toolbar for it and when you download their UpMyRank
Autosurf software. According to them, you earn a credit for every 3 ads
you see. You can leave it running on your computer all night and earn credits while you sleep.
In this exchange program, you will have visitors running their UpMyRank
software coming to your blog. For every 3 sites you visit, you get one
visitor to your site. Since the condition is you need to have the Alexa
Toolbar installed, you can give your Alexa Rankings a boost. UpMyRank
claims to send almost 1000 visitors every day if you leave their
software running all day. Their Software is guaranteed safe by McAfee,
so you need not worry about it being spamware or spyware.
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