10 Free Ways to Improve your Alexa Ranking
Dec. 09, 2009
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Many people have asked me how I’ve been able to improve my Alexa from 2,000,000 to 115,000 in about four months. I’d like to share with you ten simple and free ways to improve your Alexa ranking. For those of you who don’t know, Alexa is a tool that ranks website traffic. For example an Alexa ranking of 100,000 means that your site is the 100,000 most visited site on the web. Of course, this is not always accurate but it does give some estimation of a site popularity.
How does Alexa work?
Alexa measures your site’s ranking by gathering data from visitors with the Alexa toolbar installed. By the way this is the key to improving your ranking. (You do not have to install the toolbar to have a ranking though.)
Why would you want to improve you ranking?
- It makes you feel good and gives you bragging rights.
- More importantly it means that your site is popular, which creates a viral effect.
Some random Alexa rankings:
Google: 1
Facebook: 2
Twitter: 14
eBay: 25
CNN: 60
Digg: 104
Here are the top 500 sites.
Besides from driving more traffic to your site, here are 10 other ways to improve your Alexa ranking:
- Install the Alexa toolbar, and set your site as your homepage in your browsers.
- Add an Alexa widget, button or graph to your site.
- Get reviews and ratings on the Alexa site.
- Write or blog about Alexa (as I am doing now.)
- Share your site in webmaster forums, since many members have the toolbar installed.
- Write content related to “techish,” “web” people, so that they are attracted to your site.
- Make sure your site is active on Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon.
- Join Asian social networks, the Alexa toolbar is very popular in the Asian tech community.
- Set up a freebie page, tool or resource list, free e-book that attracts other people who may have the Alexa toolbar installed.
- Don’t forget, more traffic = better!
If you have any questions or suggestions please let me know below.
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I got my Alexa rank down to 192,000 and it just got stuck on this number for a while now. I’m try to find more ways to improve, if any one ave any ideas please post.
Well thats great, keep following the tips above and will continue to drop.
alexa has been shown to be very inaccurate. Noone takes it seriously anymore – at least I don’t!
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It is very inaccurate, although some people do still use it to measure sites. Best regards.
thanks my alexa rank is going awesome
Glad to hear this post helped! Good luck
I think I just rise our traffic. I think we do not have to put widget or else. It is simple to raise our alexa rank
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Yes that’s key, putting a widget is just a little trick, raising traffic is the main part though.
Thanks for sharing this.I was not knowing the importance of Alexa tool bar.I will install it today.
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Your welcome, glad to help out
Great post on improving your alexa rank, even though the ranking is biased it still gives your website bragging rights as you said.
Thanks
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Thanks! Yeah it’s not very accurate but you could definitely brag about it.
Another great way is to Piss off an A-List blogger, who loves to FlameBait.
Let’s say Shoemoney for instance? Just sayin’. (google my name to find out what I’m talkin’ about.)
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Good idea, thanks for sharing the tip.
hanks my alexa rank is going awesome
Thats great to hear
Very interesting ideas man. I like the idea of targeting webmasters. You’re right to assume that webmasters are WAY more likely to have the toolbar installed.
Brendan´s last blog post: The Future of Your Business Depends on Customer Opinions
Glad you think so, yeah it’s more likely that webmaster and bloggers have it installed than regular readers…
Thanks for the tip mate. I’ll be sharing this tip to my other partners in crime. Let’s see how well my ranking does after this.
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Cool, good luck man!
Awesome tips Ben, i heard alexa ranking is not so accurate, however we can’t ignore alexa, will follow your tip to write article about alexa! thanks!
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Thanks. It’s not very accurate, which is something that a lot of people don’t know, so it still helps to maintain your ranking.
thanks for the post and hope i could decrease my alexa rank as well.
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Sure thing, if you follow these tips it will
Oddly, I do sneak a peak at Alexa every now and then… it is nice to see the site rank higher… but I don’t find it particularly useful in indicating traffic, when I have had lost of traffic I actually went down on Alexa…. I guess it was more people visiting who don’t have the toolbar installed…
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It doesn’t measure traffic very well, but its a good way to see your progress.
I have heard the tip about the toolbar before but I really don’t see why alexa is so important, they are not that accurate with their statistics. I have some sites that have a low alexa because the sites don’t have that many links but they get a lot of traffic.
Yes you’re 100% right, Alexa is not very accurate. Some people don’t know that which is why its good to lower your Alexa rank…
Thanks for the pointers, I’m new to the Alexa rating and just slowly learning about it. Do you know how long it takes a new site to get an Alexa rating, I bought my own domain recently and I’m still ‘unranked’?
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Sure, I’m not sure how long it takes, but I know that its not instant. It should start soon though. Good luck with your new sites.
Nice trick! by the way, how old you now? You have a great blog!
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Thanks, I’m 16
Good tips, Ben!
Google Chrome has a useful extension called: Chrome SEO…it is a little button in the toolbar that allows you to get Alexa, Quantcast, Majestic, Compete, etc. rankings instantly for the page you are on (all without leaving the page). I’ve been a Firefox user for a long time, and still revert back to it for some items…but I have really started to enjoy Chrome, and they are releasing more extensions all the time.
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Thanks! Cool was just looking for a plugin like that
Thanks for the tips these are very useful and actionable steps to improve alexa rank, I’m going to try them immediately
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