Apr
16
I had planned to write about the importance of your Alexa rank and discuss a few things that I am going to do to try and increase my rank. As I did my research for this post, I came across a post by Maki over at Dosh Dosh called “20 Quick Ways to Increase Your Alexa Rank“ and quickly realized that I could never top that post. So instead of reinventing the wheel, I will touch on few high points and send you over there to get the full story.
We all know that the Alexa ranking process has it’s limitations. It measures the traffic each website receives by keeping up with the number of people who visit a website with the Alexa toolbar installed. As a result, the Alexa rankings are biased towards websites which have a large webmaster/tech audience because this demographic is much more likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed.
Even though Alexa is a very poor way to judge a website’s traffic level, several ad networks, including ReviewMe, Text Link Ads and Sponsored Reviews, use your Alexa rank as a way to determine the potential value of a relationship with your site.
The following is a list of 10 ways to increase your Alexa rank:
- Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension and set your blog as your homepage.
- Put an Alexa rank widget on your website.
- Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar.
- Write or Blog about Alexa. Webmaster and bloggers love to hear about ways to increase their Alexa rank.
- Post in webmaster forums and include your URL in your signature.
- Write content that is related to webmasters.
- Use Alexa redirects on your website URL.
- Create a webmaster tools section on your website.
- Get Dugg or Stumbled.
- Create an Alexa category on your blog and use it to include any articles or news about Alexa.
For detailed explanations of each of these techniques and many more ideas for increasing your Alexa rank be sure to check out Maki’s post at Dosh Dosh.
Man,
I was just going to write about this same topic … and you beat me too it … I guess Great Minds do think alike!
ha ha ha
So I’ll link to it from my blog instead, because you did all the work for me!
Darin
P.S. Good Post!
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Hello,
I think doing this is a waste of anyone’s time and energy, you would be better using your time to build backlinks!
Alexa is a waste of time in my books…
Hmmm. David, does this mean that I really won’t have much of a rank in Alexa since I write about weight and health issues? Therefore, I wouldn’t be blogging about either Alexa or web development topics.
So there’s no reason for me to spend time on this?
Thanks,
JoLynn
Not necessarily, there are a lot of non-webmaster related websites that have strong Alexa rankings. But truth be told, if some advertising networks didn’t use it as a gauge for determining a websites value, I wouldn’t worry about it all.
As mentioned above… it’s probably better in the long run if we focus on other, more important things.
Good post, you’re doing awesome alexa wise so I’m sure you’ followed a few of the recommendations.
Best of luck as always and great article,
Rob