Time To Increase your Alexa Rankings !!!

Its important for every blogger to have high alexa rankings.

Webmasters, advertisers and ad networks use your blog’s Alexa rank as a gauge to determine the worth of a link on your website. If you depend on link or site selling as a form of monetization you’ll definitely want to increase your Alexa rank, because it’ll increase your bargaining power when it comes to ad pricing.

ReviewMe, Text Link Ads and Sponsored Reviews are just three of the networks which base your ad selling strength on Alexa Ranks.price your ads based on your Alexa rank. The higher you rank in Alexa, the more money you make from the ads. Text Link Ads aren’t alone in using the Alexa data as their benchmark. Many other ad networks still use it too.

The fact is that without a realistic competitor in the market place, Alexa will continue to be used for these purposes so if you’re looking to make money with your website or blog, you should consider looking at maximizing your Alexa rank.

Get Started With Alexa.

There are two easy ways to start using Alexa. If you are using Internet Explorer, visit this page and download the Alexa Toolbar. If you’re using Firefox, download the SearchStatus extension

which displays the Alexa Rank, Google PageRank as well as other useful features.

I highly recommend that you use Firefox and SearchStatus instead of Alexa toolbar, which I find to be more bulky and less useful.

Now for The best Part how to increase your alexa rankings Quickly and Easily.

Here is a collection of methods you can use to boost your Alexa Rank. Most of these tips are derived from several fellow webmasters I know who claimed to have derived positive results through their experiments with the Alexa Rankings.

Some of the other tips were derived articles and sources, which I have duly referenced at the end of this post.

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

2) Have a few friends download the Alexa Toolbar and surf your site.

3) 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 doshdosh, each click counts as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor. You can download the Alexa Rank Widget from here.

4) Participate in many webmaster forums which allow you to place your site in your signature.

5) 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’s full explanation of their toolbar and tracking system so your readers know what installing the toolbar or extension entails.

6) Write articles about webmaster topics and distribute them around the web.

7) 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.

8) Optimize pages of your site for Alexa and related phrases.

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

10) Buy ads on search engines to increase your traffic. Your Alexa traffic rankings will increase.

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

12) Get StumbledUpon or Digg. Social Network members are more likely to have an Alexa toolbar on their browsers and a flood of traffic from these sites can skyrocket your Alexa rank!

13) Use Alexa redirects on your website URL. Try this: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.rushitshah.blogspot.com . Replace heenamehta.blogspot.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’t help. There is no official proof that redirects positively benefit your Alexa Rank, so use with caution.

14) 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.

15 ) Submit Your Posts to alexa site to crawl. Here is the link to submit your site

So this is some quickest way to Increase your Alexa rankings. If you know something more then this please let me know.

What do you think of Alexa? Have you tried increasing your Alexa Rank by any of these methods?

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