20 Ways to Increase your Alexa Rank

Here is a collection of methods you can use to boost
your Alexa Rank. Most of these tips are derived from several fellow
webmasters I know who claimed to have derived positive results through
their experiments with the Alexa Rankings.

Some of the other tips were derived articles and sources, which I have duly referenced at the end of this post.

Do these tips work? According to some, yes they definitely do work. But do
note that most of them require active effort of some sort and hence,
they will work as long as long as you are consistently performing
specific actions.

To increase your Alexa rank in the long run, I would highly recommended that one focus on developing quality content which attracts and maintains a large audience instead of purely focusing on artificially increasing your Alexa Rank.

Great link-worthy content will leads to an natural increase in site traffic and is an excellent way to passively increase your Alexa rank.

It is important to emphasize that you should devote most of your efforts
in growing your site audience alongside integrated implementation of
any of the following tips below.
Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension and set your blog as your homepage. This is the most basic step.

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. According to some, each click counts as a visit even
if the toolbar is not used by the visitor.

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.

Work in an Office or own a company?
Get the Alexa toolbar or SS Firefox extension installed on all
computers and set your website as the homepage for all browsers.
Perhaps it will be useful to note that this may work only when dynamic
or different IPs are used.

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.

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 gradually has effects on your
Alexa ranking.

Flaunt your URL in
webmaster 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.

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.

Use Alexa redirects on your website URL. Try this: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.buridcommunity.blogspot.com . Replace buridcommunity.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. There
is no official proof that redirects positively benefit your Alexa Rank,
so use with caution.

Post in Asian social networking
websites or forums. Some webmasters have suggested that East Asian web
users are big Alexa toolbar fans, judging by the presence of several
Asia-based websites in the Alexa Top 500. I suggest trying this only if
you have the time or capacity to do so.

Create a webmaster tools
section on your website. This is a magnet for webmasters who will often
revisit your website to gain access to the tools. Aaron Wall’s webpage
on SEOTools is a very good example.

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. Naturally,
you’ll need to develop link worthy material.

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 highly
relevant to webmasters.

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.

Optimize your popular posts.
Got a popular post that consistently receives traffic from the search
engines? Include a widget/graph at the bottom of the post, link to your
Alexa post or use Alexa redirection on your internal URLs.

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.

Hire forum posters
to pimp your website. Either buy signatures in webmaster forums or
promote specific articles or material in your website on a regular
basis. You can easily find posters for hire in Digital Point and other
webmaster forums.

Pay Cybercafe owners
to install the Alexa toolbar and set your website as the homepage for
all their computers. This might be difficult to arrange and isn’t
really a viable solution for most. I’m keeping this one in because some
have suggested that it does work.

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 pictures or banners and link them to your redirected Alexa
URL. This will be most effective if your website has content that is
actually relevant to the MySpace Crowd.

Try Alexa auto-surfs.
Do they work? Maybe for brand new sites. I think they are mostly
suitable for new websites with a very poor Alexa rank. Note that there
be problems when you try to use auto surfs alongside contextual ads
like Adsense. They aren’t also long term solutions to improving your
Alexa Rank so I suggest using with caution.