10 Free and Easy Ways to Improve Your Alexa Ranking‏

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1. Guest5593
   

   is that how simple the alexa ranking is? all i do is to download a toolbar and my ranking will get better and better.  i'm going to try it but would it get more money from google if my alexa ranking is high.

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2. Guest3284
   

   Alexa, which is owned by Amazon.com, gives away a free
   toolbar that you can download and install in your browser.
   Alexa is then able to keep track of the sites you visit and
   compute the traffic ranking of those websites, with a rank
   of "1" being the assigned to the most visited site.
   
   If you want a more technical definition, Alexa explains it
   like this:
   
   "The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated
   historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar
   users and data obtained from other, diverse traffic data
   sources, 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 a value
   derived from 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)."
   
   (http://www.alexa.com/site/help/traffic_learn_more)
   
   In April 2008 Alexa revised its methodology so as to
   "aggregate data from multiple sources to give you a better
   indication of website popularity among the entire
   population of Internet users".
   (http://awis.blogspot.com/2008_04_01_archive.html)
   
   How accurately this method reflects the actual surfing
   patterns of all Internet users is open to question.
   However, if you bear in mind that by the end of 2005 the
   toolbar had been downloaded well over 10 million times you
   will realize why many people still think that Alexa offers
   one of the best approximations that we have of website
   ranking, especially for the top 100,000 or so websites.
   
   That is why Alexa remains an important measure of a
   website's status and is used as a quick way to assess the
   popularity of a website by advertisers looking for the
   maximum exposure for the their money. Websites with a
   higher Alexa ranking also tend to be trusted more than
   those with a low ranking, so it is in the interest of
   website owners to get their sites ranked as highly as
   possible with Alexa.
   
   Here are some quick and easy tips to help you do that
   without spending a single dollar!
   
   1. Install the Alexa toolbar and set your website as your
   homepage.
   
   2. Copy and paste an Alexa rank widget onto your website.
   You can get the widget code at
   http://www.alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup. As well as
   informing your visitors about your Alexa rank, it will also
   keep Alexa updated about the number of unique visitors
   surfing your site.
   
   3. Create a customized version of the Alexa tool bar, Then
   place a link on your site to the download page and invite
   your visitors to download it. You will also earn Amazon
   commissions every time a user shops on Amazon via the
   toolbar link.
   
   4. If you have a Wordpress blog there is a plug-in for
   Alexa Ranking (wp-Alexa-redirect-0.3plug-in) that you can
   use.
   
   5. Submit your site to web directories. Although a lot of
   directories charge a registration fee, you can still find
   many that are willing to list your site free of charge or
   in exchange for a reciprocal link. A lot of the webmasters
   who browse web directories have the Alexa bar installed, so
   if they click your link it will help your Alexa traffic
   rank.
   
   6. Become an active participant on Internet marketing and
   SEO forums. Again, a lot of those forum participants are
   already webmasters and a high percentage will use the Alexa
   toolbar when they surf. Place a link to your site in your
   signature and your rank will improve when any of those
   people click through.
   
   7. A lot of Asian and Australian websites feature in the
   Alexa top 100,000 and you can bet that a lot of website
   owners will have the Alexa toolbar installed, so it makes
   sense to join social networking sites that are popular in
   those regions, such as:
   
   * http://www.orkut.com - Orkut is owned by Google and is
   the second most visited site in India.
   
   * http://hi5.com - Hi5 has an Alexa ranking of 17 at the
   time of writing this article.
   
   8. Become an Alexa expert and post articles that discuss
   Alexa ranking and SEO tips. This will attract people to
   your site who may be interested in downloading your
   toolbar, or people who have already done so. Either way, it
   will be good for your Alexa ranking. You could even build a
   whole category of articles on your website devoted to this
   theme.
   
   9. Set up a freebie page on your website and post a list of
   useful tools to attract other website owners to your site.
   Include another link to your Alexa toolbar download page.
   
   10. Get into the habit of using Stumbleupon and other
   bookmarking sites to spread the word whenever you post a
   new article on your website or blog. Set up a group of
   fellow website owners so that you can have run reciprocal
   stumbling campaigns for better results.
   
   If you apply these ten quick and easy methods you will
   definitely see an improvement in your Alexa rank and you
   should also start to attract more traffic to your site!
   
   Darrell Howell is an Internet Marketer and Blogger. Check
   out his Blog at http://www.blueridgemoney.info

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