What is and how to improve Alexa rank
Alexa traffic rank is a rank provided by Alexa.com to your blog or a site based on its level of traffic.
Unlike Google PageRank where it relies more on the number of (quality) backlinks to your blog, Alexa rank is based solely on the amount traffic your blog receives.
It is calculated based on the data collected from Alexa Toolbar users over a period of the past three months.
Getting to know Alexa
Some important information about Alexa traffic ranking:
- The rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data.
- The main data comes from analyzing the web usage of Alexa Toolbar users.
- The lower the number, the higher the ranking.
- Rank is updated daily.
- Is a domain level rank (with the exception of blogs in recognized blog hosts such as blogspot blogs).
- Also ranks by country.
- Rankings of 100,000 and above regarded as unreliable.
You can read more on how Alexa does the ranking on the About the Alexa Traffic Rankings page.
Boosting Alexa ranking
Now that you know a little bit about Alexa and how it works, it’s time to put the knowledge to work. Here’s what you can do to improve your blog’s traffic rank:
- Be an Alexa Toolbar user
Who is the most frequent visitor to your blog? You are. Then doesn’t it make sense you yourself install an Alexa toolbar in your browser? Visit this page to install Alexa Toolbar. Imagine, every time you visit your blog, you actually help improving your Alexa rank!
If you’re using Firefox, install an extension called SearchStatus. It does the same thing, plus it also displays Google PageRank, Compete rank and mozRank, among loads of other useful features. - Encourage your readers to install the toolbar
Your subscribers, followers and friends –they are the ones who frequent your blog. Convert them into Alexa Toolbar users by writing a post explaining to them the benefits of installing an Alexa toolbar, like what I’m doing now. - Attract webmasters to your blog
Webmasters usually have the toolbar installed, so getting them to visit your blog will improve your ranking. What you can do:- Write articles that appeals to webmasters -about SEO, web traffic, site ranking.
- Participate in webmaster forums. Share useful and relevant articles from your blog. Don’t spam.
- Create a tools page for webmasters. They will keep coming back to your blog to use the tools. Here is an example: Blogger Sentral’s SEO Tools.
- Install one of Alexa site widgets on your blog.
Even though Alexa doesn’t mention it anywhere on their website, I personally think it might work. The widget displays your blog rank, just like Alexa Toolbar and SearchStatus extension do. That to me indicates it sends/communicates your blog data to Alexa.
And if this is true, it might work even better than all the methods mentioned above -because all visits will be counted, even the visits by non-Alexa toolbar users!
Enjoy!
Do you know other ways to improve Alexa traffic ranking?
38 comments to "What is and how to improve Alexa rank"
Some days before I crossed 100,000 alexa tank :)
Thanks for your great tips :)
@Anup @ Hack Tutors
Congratulations! Looks like you're going to reach 70+k in no time :)
its doesnt sounds me good that alexa rank can be changed by installing alexa tool bar. alexa should come with any other way of ranking the sites
@zeeshan
I agree...Alexa could do better. But for the time being that's all we got.
traffic would improve the ranking i guess.. =)
I will install alexa site widget after my alexa rank below 100K. Right now my blog rank is between 200K-100K
@ken
...and a lot faster with the bar or badge added :)
@Noridah
But why wait?
wow...nice... but recently seldom updated (active) my blog...i always heard about this b4 but really2 seldom to do it...
thanx 4 sharing yea... :-)
@Mohd Hafiz
I'd say it's something worth trying.
Thanks for dropping by :)
you should consider pr checker too :D
Didn't know these things aobut Alexa. Thanks for sharing!
@Clotilde M/Craftybegonia
Thank you for taking the time to comment.
Thank you ! great tips :))
I was searching google on how to improve Alexa rank and found this article. I think it would be rally useful for me. Thanks.
@Lms
You're welcome.
@webb
I hope it helps.
How about google chrome? Can we install alexa toolbar on it?
@deCrewz
The toolbar is only for Firefox. For Chrome there is an Alexa Traffic Rank extension.
I am in the process of ranking good! Nice tips!
Installing the toolbar and setting as homepage really helps!!
ome days before I crossed 100,000 alexa tank :)
Thanks for your great tips :) please check :
Nice Tips... Improving alexa rank is not easy.. thanks for the tips.. :)
Didn't know these things about Alexa.
Hi thanks, my blogs has been in the blogspot domain since january when i started blogging but when i changed to a .com domain i.e http://www.trueinternetworld.com last 15days or so and since then my traffic and earnings have reduced. Please do you know why its like this?
nice roundup BS..
my alexa rank now under 200K, for starter I think that a good measurement for my personal blog.
That's great idea... i will try your method and i hope alexa rank will increase on our website.. thank you so much.. very useful for me..
Hi,
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful blog article post.
Keep it regular post.
Alexa rank does not reliably show the statistics, their statistics are based on the toolbars. When I had about 100 visits a day, Alexa Rank was 110K. When my website got to 900 visits per day and there was improved depth of page views, Alexa rating has deteriorated to 400K. It's brad...
I have installed Alexa widgets in my blog and also installed Alexa toolbar, Lets see how much effective is this!!
Hi..Nice article. Can anyone tell me how can I disable regional alexa rank. One of my clients website is US based but it displaying India traffic rank. Though I tried to edit listing from alexa as US, its still displaying India traffic rank. What should i do to disable India rank and enable US traffic rank..?
Rigorous tips on Alexa ranking.. it boost my knowledge on SEO to improve Alexa ranking
Nice Article.. Thanks .you are right ..I just want to tell that anyone can get good alexa ranking …by doing that
thanks
Great information about Alexa.i have already installed.yes it really helpful for increase page ranking. i like this one blog or site.
Nice article! Thanks a lot!
Thank you for the advice. Using Search Status helped me.
what exactly does alexa rank do for the website if it really good? does it effect google rank? or is it just a number for when you sell a website?
I don't Alexa widget is helpful in improving Alexa rank. It is because I installed the widget in one of my blog for more than 3 months and I never felt any huge difference in ranking. My blog was a low traffic one may be that too influenced, I am not sure.
thanks for sharing your info..
great article thanks for sharing that...
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