). [ad]First of all, let’s see what this Alexa Rank is, and why it may be of importance to you.
Alexa is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, and delivers information on traffic levels for websites. Alexa gathers this information through its toolbar, which can be downloaded and installed from alexa.com.
Alexa may not be as well known as Google’s PageRank, but still has quite some influence. Alexa Rank is very much used amongst webmasters, to value a website. This means that if you are ever thinking of selling your website, or offering advertisement space on it, the Alexa Rank of your website will come into play, and will even be a main factor to decide the prices.
How is Alexa Rank defined?
Let’s see what Alexa itself has to say about that:
“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)”
What is the problem with Alexa?
Alexa needs the visitors to have the toolbar installed, or else it doesn’t see the visit to the website. Since the only people concerned about the Alexa Rank are webmasters (for the value for ads and reselling), the majority of people who have this toolbar installed are webmasters. So, to be correct, the Alexa Rank shows you how popular your website is, amongst webmasters mostly. However, since these are the ones you need when you want to sell ads, or sell your website, that is a good thing.
How do you increase your Alexa Rank?
Above all, it is the same as with any other rank, it is a numbers game. If your audience grows, so will your Alexa Rank, simply because of the overall growth. A larger audience is created by creating and keep creating high quality content, and getting a large number of incoming links (for which the great content works wonders too…).
However, there are a few things you can do to increase your Alexa Rank.
1. Install the Alexa Toolbar yourself in your Firefox or Internet Explorer browser (unfortunately there is no toolbar available for Safari, Opera or Chrome. Then set your website as your homepage. Everytime you open your browser, the Alexa toolbar will count this as being one visitor. While your at it, encourage others to install the Alexa Toolbar. Tell your mom and sister that you need to install a security update for their browser, install the toolbar, and set your own site as their homepage (something you should do anyway ).
2. Put the Alexa rank widget up on your website. It shows your Alexa Rank to your visitors, and it will receive quite some clicks (depending on your traffic of course, again, it is a numbers game). It is said (but not proven) that these clicks count as visitors, even if the visitor doesn’t have the Alexa Toolbar installed.
3. Write a blogpost or article about Alexa. Loads and loads of webmasters want to increase their Alexa rank. They are looking for articles such as this one. If your article is written well (which I hope in this case), it will attract many webmasters. With the toolbar installed. Your rank will peak!
[ad]4. Generally write webmaster-related content, and create a webmasters-tool or most-valued-webmasters-links page. If you write content or have specific pages that attract webmasters,… Well, remember the previous tip!
5. Be active on webmaster and seo forums and blogs, and show your URL there. Be it in your profile, your sig, or by providing usefull answers and referring to articles you wrote about the topic. Again, many webmasters, many Alexa toolbars, increased ranking.
6. Get discovered by the Asian websurfers. Apparently, Asian webusers are very fond of the Alexa toolbar. Getting into that market will increase your Alexa Rank. You can get started there by adding your url to some asian directories, participating in Asian forums or social media, or get to know someone Asian who can spread your url.
7. Get your pages Dugg or StumbledUpon. If your content is of high linkworthy quality, chances are high that you will get Dugg or StumbledUpon. This will massively increase your traffic, and thus (the numbers game again), your Alexa rank. If you keep this up (keep on writing high quality content), your overall rankings and incoming links will boost through the roof!
Do you have other ways of increasing the Alexa rank, then don’t be afraid to share them in the comments below. And to the ones who are reading this article, and don’t have the Alexa Toolbar installed yet: go to Alexa.com, install the toolbar, and head back over here!!!!
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Alexa isn’t the most accurate gauge but it’s a good way to measure progress. Bottom line, increase pageviews, increase Alexa ranking.
@Gabe: True indeed, a numbers game. Now only getting these pageviews to increase
I’m very late here… but I will have to argue that this is not necessarily true. My pageviews have steadily been increasing over the past few months, my PR has gone up, but in the past 2-3 weeks my Alexa ranking has tacked on almost 90,000!! I don’t understand it at all.
I hear that it’s supposed to be more stable once you are above 100,000, but they won’t let me get there… I am going in the wrong direction. Blah.
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Hey Kris, to increase your Alexa rank, you need more visitors with the Alexa Toolbar installed. This implies that you can have an increasing amount of visitors and pageviews, and still a decreasing Alexa rank. I had the same here, since my iPhone IOS4.0 articles did very well, I had a big increase in traffic, but since most of them were iPhone users, not interested in all things website related, most of them didn’t have the Alexa toolbar, and thus my Alexa rank dropped.
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Another numbers game.. argh. But I can’t deny it.. Alexa is a great tool..
I think that alexa is much similar as google page rank. This toolbar is basically used for SEO.
Great tip, friend! Njoyed reading it.
@Saksham Talwar: Glad you liked it!
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There’s actually a very easy way to artificially inflate your Alexa rank. Since it is based on the number of Alexa users visiting your blog you can install the Alexa tool bar on several PCs and make sure you visit your site daily a couple of times from these computers. If, say, you have one at home, one at the office, and one laptop for travel, that makes three. By my records that is sufficient to hover around the magic top 100K. Unfortunately that also makes my visitor records totally distorted, since I really don’t have 80% of my real visitors coming from my own country. For what it’s worth, though, I now have a nice rank I can show off with.
@Jan: Indeed, as covered in point 1 of how to increase your rank. Installing the toolbar yourself will already get you a long way. And i you have access to different computers with different ip-addresses, you can get even further
They announced over a year ago that the toolbar no longer is the source of their ranking data. Forget the toolbar, it is no longer a concern.
@Jason: On the Alexa website they still mention the toolbar as the tool they use to measure:
Where did you get the information that the toolbar would no longer be the source?
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@Buy Soma Online: it does have it’s advantages yes
Thanks for the great tips, will put them to good use.
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Great tips, thank you very much. Here is my Alexa ranking: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/tribulant.com?p=tgraph&r=home_home
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Hi,
One thing that I didn’t see you mention is getting reviews on Alexa. I have about 4 reviews and I have done about 6. I think it’s great if you can get together with some other bloggers and add reviews to each others sites. I hope the reviews hold some weight. What do you think?
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@Ileane True, the reviews on Alexa are not included in the list. The value of these reviews is by all means high, but their weight in the Alexa rank is not proven. Therefor I decided not to mention it. However, getting alot of reviews there will never hurt, on the contrary. Indirect it will increase your Alexa rank: more reviews, more readers coming from Alexa, most probably with the toolbar installed, so higher Alexa ranking
Alexa ranking is also necessary as page ranking.I like the steps whichever you mention in this step it is really a fantastic for us I am very glad after I read this one it is very nice things for us.
Thank you for commenting r4. I’m glad these tips helped you out.
For bloggers “who blog on blogging,” Alexa Rank is of more importance to this crowd.
Although, in the grand scheme of things, Alexa Rank is somewhat of a worthless barometer.
I’d rather have a list of active, engaged subscribers.
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Indeed, since Alexa only counts visits from people who are using the Alexa toolbar, it is a very singlesided, and thus worthless barometer. However, if the value of your website is being evaluated, stupid enough, it is still considered as one of the pointers. So often it does pay (literally) to increase the Alexa rank.
So many have stated that ALexa ranking is flawed and worthless.
Obviously many people do not understand Statistical data. Stats are never an exact science. They are never the exact number of your overall data.
The main purpose for any statistical data is to show trends, try and work out forcast, interpret the data and then apply it.
So yes ALexa is not perfect, but it can show you some interesting trends over time. IF yoiu understand that it is just a sample of your data, then you have won the first big batter.
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True, the hard part of statistics is the interpretion of the numbers. Alexa does have it’s role, as you say, but cannot be used as a general traffic measurement in my opinion.
Hi
Thank you for your information, I’m going to install the alexa’s toolbar in order to increse the ranking of my website… Thanks
greetings from Mexico City
Guillermo Camargo
Good luck with boosting your ranking!
Thank you for your information, I will try to my blog Thanks
Good luck.
Well, I just installed the Alexa toolbar a few days ago, and would love to see my copywriting services site’s ranking be even a third of yours.
You’ve got plenty of back links, per Alexa. Congrats!
There is so much you have to work on to get organic search results. Google pagerank, alexa, backlinks. Thanks for the help.
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Great Tips to get Alexa rank…! Thanks for sharing, I’m going to install alexa toolbar.
Thanks again
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