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Tips to increase your Alexa Rank

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1. Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox鈥檚 SearchStatus extension and set your website or blog as your homepage. This is the most basic step.

2. 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.

3. 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鈥檚 full explanation of their toolbar and tracking system so your readers know what installing the toolbar or extension does. The Alexa toolbar is also excellent for your online research!

Alexa Rank
Alexa Features:

* Related Links: Find sites that are similar to the one you are currently visiting.
* Traffic Trend: A sparkline showing the traffic trend from the last four months.
* Reach Meter: A neat little indicator that shows the site鈥檚 Reach.
* Traffic Rank: Shows the current site鈥檚 Alexa Traffic Rank.

4. 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.

5. Get friends to review and rate your Alexa website profile. Not entirely sure of its impact on rankings but it might assist in some way.

6. Write or Blog about Alexa. Webmaster and bloggers love to hear about ways to increase their Alexa rank. They鈥檒l link to you and send you targeted traffic (i.e. Visitors with the toolbar already installed). This gradually has effects on your Alexa ranking.

7. Flaunt your URL in webmaster forums. Webmasters usually have the toolbar installed. You鈥檒l get webmasters to visit your website and offer useful feedback. It鈥檚 also a good way to give back to the community if you have useful articles to share with others.

8. Write content that is related to webmasters. This can fall in the group of domains and SEO, two fields in which most webmasters will have the Alexa toolbar installed. Promote your content on social networking websites and webmaster forums.

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

10. 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.

11. 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鈥檚 web page on SEOTools is a very good example.

12. 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鈥檒l need to develop link worthy material.

13. 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. Ask an expert to set up because this can save you money and avoid trouble. If not set up correctly Google and Exact Seek will burn down your budget in no-time.

14. 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 assisting you rank in the search engines.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. Hire forum posters to pimp for 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.

18. 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鈥檛 really a viable solution for most. I鈥檓 keeping this one in because some have suggested that it does work.

19. Use s . This is a little shady so I don鈥檛 recommend it unless you鈥檙e 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.

20. Try Alexa auto-surfs. Do they work? May be for brand new sites. I think they are mostly suitable for new websites with a very poor Alexa rank. Note that there can be problems when you try to use auto surfs alongside contextual ads like Adsense. They aren鈥檛 also long term solutions to improving your Alexa Rank so I suggest using with caution.

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Do you know anything about Alexa Ranking for your blog/site? I don’t, and I didn’t think it is important at all to my blog until I sign up with paid ad review sites.
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What I found out is your Alexa Ranking is very serious, and it determines the rating of your blog when you apply for ad review opportunities. The higher the rank of a blog, the more tasks/assignments you will receive, and the more money you can make.

After reading many articles on Alexa, I found three easy steps to increase blogs ranking. As you can tell, I am on a quest to earn money while enjoy blogging.

Step One

Click on this link , type in your blog address, and click submit. Next, it will take you to another page, and you will need to click on “Request that Alexa crawl…(your site). If you want to, you can also click on “Update contact information…”

Step Two

Click on this link to go to Widget site, where you will scroll down the page to find what widget you want to put on your blog. For me, I chose to install the Alexa Traffic Rank, and Alexa Site Stats Button.

Hit Build Widget, then copy and paste the codes on your blog. Since I changed my template twice in the last six months, my ranking, and stats are just pathetic!

The reason why you should put the widgets on your blog is to let Alexa knows the traffic coming to your site.

Step Three

Download the Alexa toolbar for Firefox or Internet Explorer, and set your blog as your Home Page. The toolbar allows you to see other similar sites, traffic trend, and enhanced search.

I hope you will find this post useful/helpful to increase your blog ranking. Even if you are not into making money doing ad reviews, it is good to know that your blog brings enjoyment to other people.

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