Alexa rank is one of the golden standards that decide a website’s worth in terms of traffic.
Alexa gives every site a rank and unlike the Google pagerank, for the Alexa rank, the lesser the better. The #1 site on Alexa’s list is Google (not surprising, eh?)!
Well, if your website has a decent Alexa rank then it will be well respected on the web. Especially for advertising profits, a website’s Alexa ranking is one of the factors that decide the price of the ad space at that website.
Before we talk about how to boost your alexa rank, let’s dig a little deep about what this website ranking algorithm is all about.
So, what is Alexa rank and what does it mean?
Basically, alexa rank is an algorithm that grades or ranks websites based on the amount of traffic the website gets. In Alexa’s own words, here’s the definition:
Think you’re cool with Alexa ranking if you get decent website traffic? Think again.
Take a good look at the definition above and not all of your website traffic is counted in calculating Alexa rank, but only that portion of the traffic that uses the Alexa toolbar.
So basically, the Alexa traffic rank takes into account the number of people visiting your website that has the Alexa toolbar installed on their browsers.
That’s inaccurate, right? Yes it is. But still, just like Google Pagerank, the Alexa traffic rank number is not just seen as a mere number - even if its inaccurate.
Many advertising agencies, SEO companies, guest bloggers and bloggers who are on a hunt for building links look up the Alexa rank as one of the metrics that represent the standards of a website.
So unfortunately even though you know that Alexa rank is somewhat inaccurate, you have to go for it 
I’m not saying that you should be obsessed by this number. But doing stuff to make sure that your blog has a decent (sexy) Alexa rank will surely help.
Publish high quality content, consistently
Now don’t give me that look I know - you turn to any blog seeking advice to improve website traffic, or increase page rank, or to become an authority - everybody says the same thing: Publish quality content!
Is that annoying? If you hear everybody saying that, there are two things:
1. It is highly crucial.
2. It works for all those who keep saying it.
And I put it first - even before you think of any “tactic” or a magical shortcut to decrease that Alexa rank number publishing high quality content is a robust strategy (not just a tactic).
Publishing high quality content in a consistent manner helps improve your Alexa rank with no extra effort.
Blog commenting improves Alexa rank
Yes it does and that’s sweet news because we bloggers do comment on related blogs as part of our blogging routine. We do blog commenting in order to network with other bloggers and their readers and also to build backlinks.
While doing so, we are also improving our Alexa rank! And that’s good news right?
Consistent blog commenting can improve your Alexa rank in a quite consistent manner. I’ve experimented this on my blogs at various times.
Don’t take my word. Just go experiment yourself. Track the improvement of your Alexa rank as you indulge in a substantial amount of blog commenting say, for a week and watch the magic
Alexa toolbar
Remember I told you in the beginning that Alexa uses its own toolbar to track the amount of traffic to any site? So why not use your own visits to your site to improve the rank?
I know this may sound as if you are manipulating the Alexa toolbar rank - but I won’t say you are. Unless you install the toolbar and go refresh the page 100 times. Even so, you cannot manipulate the result this way because, see below in Alexa’s own words:
Multiple page views of the same page made by the same user on the same day are counted only once. The page views per user numbers are the average numbers of unique pages viewed per user per day by the visitors to the site.
Yes, you can still manipulate your Alexa rank by changing your ip for different visits and do all sorts of nasty stuff - but you’d better focus on creating killer content, promoting it, networking with other bloggers and indulge yourself in activities that will actually benefit your blog
Alexa toolbar is available for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.
By installing the Alexa toolbar you can make your own visits count, and you can also “watch” the improvement of your Alexa rank.
Note that improving your Alexa rank by installing the Alexa toolbar is just a tactic - you are just counting your own traffic as traffic - which is right in a sense. But at the same time you cannot actually judge the genuine rank of your site. Then again, since Alexa is not counting everyone and only counts those that have the Alexa toolbar, I guess this makes sense.
Just keep in mind that this technique simply helps in improving Alexa rank; that is the scope of this post anyway.
Other little things to improve Alexa rank (these might not be your cup of tea)
Get reviewed to improve Alexa rank
Even though getting reviewed does not directly help in improving Alexa rank, it will help in some manner. Get some buddies to review your website or blog at Alexa and reciprocate by reviewing their sites.
If you have a handful of decent reviews, that is a good item on your site’s CV.
Asian socials
Alexa has lots of fans in Asia (I don’t know why) and a lot of them use the Alexa toolbar.
If you manage to drive those people to get to your website from their browser (with toolbar installed) then it will give a boost to your Alexa ranking.
Make Alexa a category
Blog or write about Alexa. If you have good in depth articles related to Alexa, then use them on your blog. Most importantly, making Alexa as a category will help a lot.
Drive webmasters to your site
If you can blog about stuff useful for webmasters, great! If not, try to buy advertising in webmaster sites or forums so that you target the webmaster population and drive them to your site. Alexa loves this and your ranking will improve decently.
Watch your site’s speed
Just like any other metric, your Alexa rank can also be affected if your site loads slow. Just imagine if people have to wait for minutes before your site gets loaded. They simply won’t come back again.
Since Alexa rank is traffic based rank, here you have to please people. So all your backlinks won’t help if people stop visiting your site because of poor loading speed.
You can use a content delivery network (CDN) like Cloudflare.
Alexa website ranking: Takeaway
I’d like to insist on one thing here - do not get obsessed by the Alexa traffic rank number. Your Alexa rank is not equal to the amount of traffic you get on your blog.
But working to improve your Alexa website rank has the following benefits:
- You can earn more on advertising income, since advertisers look for sites that have a good Alexa rank.
- You will be perceived as a good quality blog (although I don’t agree with this!).
- By working to improve your Alexa rank you will also improve some other nice metrics like Google Pagerank, backlinks etc.
Please open up in the comments and let me know if you have any questions about Alexa rank and if you have any other working tip(s) to help improve alexa ranking!
It was indeed a very useful piece of information. Tech bloggers can write about Alexa or attract webmasters to improve their rankings, but is there any such tip for non-tech bloggers also to boost their Alexa Rankings?
Yes you are right. It is easy for tech blogs to get higher alexa ranking in less time because most of the webmasters uses the toolbar. It is difficult for non tech blogs to get better alexa and that’s why alexa ranking is not reliable.
Hi Pankaj and Nandan,
Alexa should find another way to track the traffic. It only counts the traffic to your blog through the toolbar. So those who have installed the toolbar and visits your site will be counted. Others won’t be
Jane.
Helpful piece Jane.
We need good Alexa rank for our blogs to gets better popularity and people these days prefer to visit websites that falls below the 100k rank to others beyond that level. And focusing on Asian traffic at times would help us improve rankings as you have said. That’s awesome piece. Thanks for that.
hi jane, Well, you’re right, I tried that traffic from forum trick and it worked like magic. Not only my alexa dropped 10k per day but most of my traffic came from that single thread that I created.
Great tips thanks
Alexa Rank is improved when people having Alexa toolbar installed in their browser visits your blog…
Alexa calculates only traffic from the Alexa Toolbar…
Also, if your site links are increasing time to time, then also Alexa Rank will be improved..
One of my blog which was getting more than 10k visits daily was not below 100k Alexa rank mark…
So, I don’t believe in Alexa ranking system..
But yea, when it comes to selling a site.. People do look for the Alexa Rank…
For selling purpose, its the first thing that buyer will notice!
I agree with Nandan. It very easy to get well ranked in Alexa for webmaster websites because the every webmasters uses alexa tools. If you have such tips for non-tech then please share with us.
Finally very very thanks for this post.
Verytrue Sanjan! Most of the Asian bloggers too have tech blogs
I hadn’t heard of the Alexa redirect before, but the question I have is there any real proof that just using the toolbar and changing your home page really helps?
Hi Tatum,
Alexa monitors your traffic through the toolbar. So your Alexa traffic rank actually represents the number of people visiting your site through the toolbar. So if you have the toolbar installed and have your site as the homepage, every time you open the browser, your homepage will load and that will help a lot.
Jane.
hi jane alexa ranking is most affect to website popularity and traffic. and also alexa tool bar helping me alot..thanks for shring..
Alexa score is indeed a nice tool to show off your website or blog but I find it to be really inaccurate, especially when you are comparing blogs in different niches.
Cristian,
It is so inaccurate. You don’t have the actual traffic stats. Only people who visit your site through the toolbar are counted. But this stat is still valued a lot by advertisers and other sponsors. Can’t help it
Jane.
Ricky says
I agree with Glorious Blogger that Alexa is not that accurate. For example, i once get much traffic to my blog compared to the past where only few of visitor come to my blog, but Alexa rank does not improved by that huge traffic. It seem like Alexa rank is mostly influenced by the traffic drove by visitors with installed Alexa toolbar.
Exactly Ricky. So you cannot use Alexa rank to analyze your true traffic; it is not true indeed. Google analytics helps you on this.
Jane.
Having a sexy figure, be it physical or your page rank always pleases the eyes.:)
Anyways, the discussion about the plugins was really helpful and would surely help in keeping an eye over the stats.
Glad you liked the post and found the discussion useful, Joshua.
Yes indeed, it was. No arguments over that. Having stats at your fingertips always gives you a premonition about your strategies.
Regards
It is definitely nicer to have an Alexa ranking than not have one, it is a nice form of social proof. On the other hand I am not sure if it is worthwhile really “pursuing it” beyond installing the toolbar.
As you pointed out, it is pretty inaccurate since the bulk of the data are from those with the toolbar installed and there is a definite asian/webmaster bias there.
500,000 Alexa for a blog about flowers is likely more actual traffic than a 50,000 alexa blog about “webmasters tools”
It is a decent rule of thumb and something nice for a “rule of thumb” to compare your traffic to other bloggers in the same niche (which PR certainly doesn’t do). But it doesn’t do anything past being “one” factor in pricing ads for the site.
Anyway, even though i said all that, it is nice to “look” good and installing the toolbar and at least taking a moment to try to “rank” certainly can’t hurt (as long as no one gets bogged down by it) so great guide to showing how to do this.
Hi Steve,
Thanks for adding value as always. It is a great idea to compare Alexa ranks within the same niche. This at least gives a somewhat closer idea of what the ranking really means
Thanks for stopping by.
JAne.
These are nice tips…But from my own experience, getting reviewed just contribute nothing to improve the Alexa ranking.
If you will check then, you will find that many top Alexa ranking blogs and sites are having very few reviews and very low star ranking too.
Shaan,
Getting reviewed doesn’t help directly improve the ranking. But if someone finds your blog through the toolbar (it has a search option, I bet many use it) then they will judge your site based on the number of good reviews you have. They can then bookmark your site and visit it often; this will improve your ranking indirectly.
Jane.
I don’t usually concern myself too much with Alexa rank. I have the toolbar installed, but that is all. I don’t find Alexa rank particularly accurate in any way. I have seen blogs with half the traffic of my blog, but they have a much better Alexa rank. I think blogs and sites geared towards a blogger or webmaster tend to do better with Alexa ranking since many of their visitors would usually have the toolbar installed.
That’s right Paul. Only certain types of blogs are favored.
Personally love Alexa and find out how I’m doing on Websitegrader on a
continous basis. Never managed to install it in the root directory (?) so I will just keep on checking on Websitegrader.
You can use the firefox’s searchstatus extension to track your alexa rank, updates almost continuously.
Well, you’re right Jane.
I tried that traffic from forum trick and it worked like magic.
Not only my alexa dropped 10k per day but most of my traffic came from that single thread that I created.
Great tips there.
That is a great achievement Karan. Glad you made it
These are great tips, Jane, and you’ve created an interesting discussion about the value of Alexa ranking. I think I’ll try installing the toolbar and maybe using the redirect URL.
Let me know how it goes Jeanine!
bodynsoil says
Thank you for this post, I am in the process of improving my Alexa rating, it helps to know what is and isn’t working from those with experience. I will try a few of the suggestions you mention and hope for Alexa success.
Hi Jane,
I am going to add the firefox extension and add my blog as the home page and see what I get. Thanks for the useful tips. I will implement what I can.
Justin, yes that helps a bit!
This post has complete 95% of the question which I have been finding the right answer for very long time. Thanks Jane
Jane, aloha. Thx for these great tips. Though I have an Alexa toolbar, my blog is not set as my home page; will switch it as soon as I finish typing this.
The Alexa as a category and redirects also have value.
Once again, Jane, thx for the “goodies” you always so generously share with us. Aloha. Janet
My pleasure Janet. Installing the toolbar without having your blog as homepage means that you are helping another site (your present homepage)
Let me know how your rank improves 
Jane.
Do we really need to work on improving our alexa ranks? I did nothing to improve the rankings of Blokube and not even using alexa toolbar, widgets etc.
One should focus on building community, instead of spending hours on improving alexa rank.
Btw. Good stuff, Jane and oh Happy Birthday :). Keep up the good work !!
Hi Dev,
Trying a bit to get a good rank never hurts. Coz, this metric is still valued a lot by advertisers.
Thanks for the wishes
Cheers,
Jane.
James says
Excellent takeaways Shane! I wasn’t really paying much attention to my Alexa rank until my fellow blogger from the Philippines told me that Alexa and Google go together in ranking websites. Great tips, very useful
Hi Jane,
thanks for your tips about Alexa. Nothing to add here. At the end of the day, I agree with Devesh…
Take care
Oliver
Hi Jane,
I like the Alexia tool bar idea. Your post made it clear on how important Alexia really is. If we want to improve on our Alexia ranking we will need to implement some of these strategies.
Tisha
Hey Jane,
As you know, I’ve been working very diligently to improve my Alexa ranking and now you’ve come up with these gold nuggets that I can use right away to knock it down even further. Thanks!
I was aware of the Alexa toolbar but some of your other tips are new and exciting!
I am finding that the combination of regular, consistent posting, commenting on blogs and increasing the traffic and interaction with others on the blog has helped the most at improving my Alexa rank.
Great post, Jane… now I’m off to take action on your tips!
Bob,
It is very true that increasing your posting frequency and commenting will improve your Alexa ranking. I have experimented on it
Cheers,
Jane.
Jane;
Definitely going to install Firfox’s serachstatus extension after this comment (O:
Really appreciate the share and the insightful post!
You Rock girl!
Adam,
Thanks for stopping by. Sure you will see a difference after installing the toolbar. Don’t forget to make you blog as homepage, though
Jane.
Certainly Jane. Thank you for the reminder (O:
For as long as advertisers use Alexa as one of their metrics to look for potential publishers, Alexa will always be important. Also, tehre are many thing we can do with the information Alexa provides and one should only know how to use them.
One of the things I found that improved Alexa very well is to get traffic from as much different countries possible. This helps, really. And BTW, thanks for the heads up on creating a category just for Alexa. Did that just now
Lastly, I am still confused about the impact of using redirects from Alexa. Does that not affect your rankings on search engines?
Traffic from different countries surely does help! Thanks for the addition Fran. And I’ve removed the redirect tip - I *guess* its somewhat blackhat or unethical.
Hey Jane, I had no idea of all the other functions you can implement with Alexa, although I do have the toolbar installed.
As you know I am not techi, so it will take me a bit to figure some of this out!
ie: set your homepage? duh?
One of these days I will get to know the ins and outs. In the meantime, I find by continuous posting, my Alexa rank improves. If I don’t continue, it goes up a bit.
Thanks for all the tips. I will endeavor the write a review of your site and let you know.
Jayne
Hi Jane,
Very useful post!
I have been using the Search Status Extension on my firefox browser for awhile now. I mainly added it so I could see how my site was ranking. I had no idea it could improve my ranking.
I am going to have to try the tips you suggest, because my site has been rising for the last few months, but recently I haven’t been posting content as often and my alexa ranking has stalled out at 190,000. Time to write more posts and use your tips.
Thanks Jane and have a great day!
Hey Jane,
Thanks for the awesome tips! It’s a little hard for me to get my site review, but with your tips it might be a bit easier. I want to start getting myself interviewed, because that should help too right?
Anyways, thanks again!
God bless,
William Veasley
Anything that has a ranking system people tend to take an interest in to see if they can get a better or higher rank. It is just human nature I guess. I am not a big fan of Alexa rank, but it does provide additional statistics and info about your website that is kind of interesting to look at from time to time.
Hi Jane,
Great tips you’re sharing here. Thanks for the tip for creating a category just for Alexa - doing that now
I recently wrote about this on my blog, sharing the exact strategies that I have implemented to drop my Alexa ranking like crazy!
All the best,
Mavis
The redirect link seems no longer working. Did they disable that feature?
Hi Jane, I saw your comment at Kikolani.com and came here. This is a nicely written article about Alexa. I thought the part that was interesting was the paragraph on Asian socials. I learn something new whenever I go to new websites, and I liked how this blog post is so easy to read. Thanks!
You’re very welcome Hulbert - and now that’s a proof that blog commenting not only helps improving Alexa rank but also gets traction and visitors
I actually landed a fairly major project this year as the result of a comment I left on a blog several years ago. Another commenter and I began communicating directly and this was the ultimate result. Can’t beat that!
In terms of ethics, I don’t think visiting your site multiple times a day should be of that much concern. Seeing some of the tactics that others use to get highly ranked this is definitely no where near the top.
On another note, trading reviews for review is a great idea! If anyone that reads this comment would like to trade reviews I would certainly be happy to review their blog
Orlando - yes and given that we cannot manipulate the numbers much since multiple page views are not counted - installing Alexa toolbar is a good idea indeed.
Alexa is quite hypnotic. Even though I know it is a tad flaky I do pay attention to it. Really as you say, it is the traffic numbers, your stats, and really your income from the blog that counts - your Alexa number can give you some bragging rights!
Hi Jane,
Thanks for the excellent information. “Ranking” on anything — Alexa, Google, etc. — is always a mysterious process, so proven tips are very helpful.
Also, not sure when this post was written, but Alexa now has a toolbar for Firefox.
Adam thanks - I’ve updated the post
Hi Jane,
Never heard of Searchstatus Extension and I never thought to write a review about Alexa. How neat! Thanks for the ideas and for pioneering some great stuff for us.
Jon
Mark Lee says
The best way is to write about alexa. This way you have a higher probability that webmasters come to your site that have the alexa banner enabled like me at the moment
My blog’s Alexa rank was affected when I removed the Alexa Sparky extension for Firefox. I did it because I installed another extension that included a PR checker. I didn’t know that it would make my rankings suffer. I’ve reinstalled the Alexa Sparky plugin and I hope that my Alexa ranking would go “down” again.
I guess the visitors of the website are who improve the page rank !! we can’t assume that we can get it better because the visitor must install the Alexa toolbar.
In fact, Alexa wants to count the high quality visitor, as what they see is that people who install there toolbar are the quality ones.
Great Post About Alexa, thanks for it.
Btw, nice blog. Enjoyed reading your posts. I’m adding you to my blogroll if you don’t mind.
Hi DJ,
I don’t think the Firefox extension could affect your rankings. It is merely a tool to monitor your rankings. All that matters is the Alexa toolbar, because Alexa counts the traffic to your blog that has the tool installed.
Glad that you liked my blog and I appreciate adding it to your blogroll. Thanks.
Jane.
I really appreciate your post. It gives an outstanding idea that is very helpful for all the people on the web. Thanks for sharing this information and I’ll love to read your next post too.
Regards:
share tips
I have read so much about how worthless Alexa is, and it’s refreshing to read an article that accepts its value. I’m one of those bloggers that wakes every morning and before my eyes are fully open i download the top million alexa list. I am chasing the dream to get within the top 100,000 alexa list, and i love having something that can measure my progress.
Hi,
Thanks for Useful information about Alexa.
Alexa is a contributory of Amazon.com. It is a ranking method based on the level of traffic a website receives from people
with the Alexa toolbar installed.
How can you enhance Alexa rank?
Somy as I’ve explained in the post Alexa counts the visitors through the toolbar. By installing a toolbar you make Alexa count your own visits as well - that’s it.
A good Alexa Ranking gives Branding to your Website! And Alexa Ranking is rightly based on traffic! So the more is the traffic, the more is the rank! The tips above are really interesting to implement! I really appreciate this blog and loved it!
Submitting your article to Social Bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon will greatly help you to have a good ranking in Alexa. You can ask your readers to submit it too because the more your article is bookmarked, the more your site will rank well in Alexa.
Brad yes thanks for the added tip! Social bookmarking does help.
Great article. I learned a lot about Alexa. Can’t wait to use the redirect tip.
I’ve been using Alexa lately to research competitors and top traffic generating keywords which has been quite useful.
What if you have many websites? Also, anyone that would like to review me and send me a note so I can review me is welcome. Here is my redirect.
redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.kittykraze.com
Thanks for the great post. It is very helpful for people like me, who are struggling to rise their site ranks.
fiddle deedee says
thank you for the insight about improving Alexa rank - its fun to start a new project and see how quickly you can reach the desirable levels in alexa traffic rank. congrats on ProBloggingSuccess.com - you guys are showing around 24,000 on my alexa toolbar. i wasnt able to get to the redirect link you suggested
Nice Article.
I think Alexa does not depends on Traffic
Someone told me that Timing of posting is very necessary for better alexa rank….
Love this article.
I don’t use any of those tips - I kind of just let the natural traffic do it for me - but they’re helpful nonetheless. I am slightly obsessed with Alexa. Not because it’s 100% accurate (not even close), and not because it matters a ton, but because it’s fun to see your numbers grow (decrease, rather) every day when you are working hard on your website. A blog friend of mine said Alexa didn’t matter at all, but that is not true… many advertisers still ask for your Alexa score. As long as they’re still asking, I’m still watching it! I get all excited any time a new site I create gets under 100,000. Then it’s just a race to see how quickly I can get it to 50,000!
alexa is definitely a giant in seo and so your post will help in how to use alexa for better ranking. thanks for the info
Hi Jane,
I actually didn’t know about the Alexa redirect. I’ll try it with one of my blogs and keep eye on it for couple of weeks or months to see if it’s moving. Thanks for that tip.
presto says
I use alexa toolbar and request all of my friends to do the same and ask them to visit my site atleast once using the browser with the toolbar
Hi Jane,
nice post, thanks for sharing.
I think that the method of Alexa redirect does not work anymore, right?
Like it or not, the Alexa rank is at the center of debate whether it is or not so important, but still remains a method (more or less valid) to evaluate your site.
And webmasters, together with advertisers, that visit our sites will check first PageRank together with Alexa Rank…
Love these tips! I am going to follow some today hopefully. One question – how do you feel about adding all these tips? I don’t want to bog my site down w/ too many.
One of my friend have an internet cafe, so I will download searchstatus extention and will set my blog to the home page, Thanks for the quality ways Jane!
Mikael says
A little more than 90 days ago my website Tigrai Online’s rank on Alexa was 560,000 sometimes even higher. I wanted get higher ranking on Alexa so I googled about it I found a blog similar to this one that showed step by step things to do. I followed it and everything one by one, believe me, my Alexa rank kept falling and falling now my ranking is floating around 130,000. One of the things that I did was I created and installed an Alexa tool bar on my computer. I am thank full to people like Jane for sharing their knowledge with us.
Scott says
So glad we came across this site for advancing our Alexa ranking. I just added searchstatus and will do your other suggestions as well. Thank you for the tips and I will check back in a few months to let you know the progress.
very great post, keep it up. I just subscribe to you!
Thanks for your advices. I will try it, and I hope I can get a better ALEXA Rank as soon as possible. Have a nice days… ^_^
Very attractive heading for sexy write up!. Looks so amazing. In order to gain alexa rank, you have to update your content and keep updating in social media about the same.
Hi Jane, thanks for the tips. But i think Alexa rank is nothing more just numbers. It doesn’t effect on your SE and it is easy to manipulate through fake hits with some proxy bots.
Wow…you do get across the point. But like you mentioned, Alexa rank is not accurate and it can even be manipulated. However we still need to improve it because it is one of the most important benchmarks for bloggers and other webmasters.
I have tried many ways to improve my Alexa ranking. However, I’m not doing well of it. I think the traffic is the key factor of the Alexa ranking. In my opinion, I will focus on how to drive the traffic with quality content. Thanks for sharing the post!
Hey Jane! Thanks for sharing these great tips- that are awesome just to make your blog better not only improve Alexa rank! I ave installed Alexa toolbar sometime ago and I do care of improving my rank! I did not think about creating a category for it but you really inspired me to do it!
This is the most comprehensive post for improving Alexa ranking that I have even came on. Thanks Jane so much for once again reminding me how important Alexa ranking is.
Could not agree with these points more.
Alexa is indeed the yardstick that establishes the credibility of a blogger or a website owner in the cyber arena. Keeping these points in the mind will indeed make the path ahead a bit smoother.
Thanks for this wonderful share.
This was relevant information, very useful
Is it important that the content be distinct and the idea be new to get traffic on a blog? Will that count in getting a good Alexa rank?
Great article, very informative. Do you know how much you ranking will improve by installing the Alexa Toolbar? Is it significant or minimal from your experience?
Thanks!
It just helps Brian that’s it - not much. But a little helps, you know!
Again you prove the content as King by mentioning its importance repeatedly.
Many people say that Alexa rank/PR doesn’t matter: True, but in a long term, it can become a measure to prove site’s authority and value.
So, instead of worrying about Alexa rank/PR, naive bloggers must start working hard on creating creative content!
Thank you, Jane, for just another great share. I think you have first time written a post dedicated to Alexa rank. Keep it up!
Hi Jane
I think this is a way off for me yet but a decent alexa rank is what we all aspire too. I have two blogs now mymainone is creeping up the rankings and I did look at where it was ranked and there were too many numbers in it so I didn’t look any further. I did write it down though so I should check to se if it had changed much.
Great insight thanks lee
Many people say that Alexa rank is nothing to worry about but still if you ask a webmaster or an internet marketeer then he would know how obsessed we are with it. I always have my alexa sparky installed in my firefox.
Hello
I have seen many such posts on How to Decrease Alexa in months. This one is another such post but completely different. Really informative. Blog Commenting really works, even publishing posts daily lowers the Alexa ranking. Getting a Alexa rank of 1 lakh is really not that tough. Sharing posts on social sites also helps a lot.
Sanjib
Thanks for sharing this Jane. I agree with all your points. We should all worry about Alexa, this is what advertisers look at before they contact anyone. I will work again on these points and get back to you if i need any help.
I have now subscribed to your newsletter and now ready to read your free ebook. You will be seeing me here more often so be ready hahaha.
Many thanks,
Seun.
Welcome to my blog Oluwaseun. I’m so glad you joined my list
That means a lot to me! Hope you stick around. Keep visiting.
Hi Jane,
Such an interesting article again! I’m wondering about one thing though. What percentage of all Internet users have Alexa bar installed. Does anyone know it? Before I started “doing” SEO and stuff I’d had absolutely no idea that there is such a thing called Alexa Toolbar. That’s why I suppose most of its users are only those who know a lot about SEO, Internet marketing, Internet advertising etc. If this is true, Alexa Rank may have absolutely NO value for some niches e.g. niches about dog training were neither website owners nor websites’ visitors have no idea about AR. I saw some sites with AR at about 5 000 000 and these sites make huge money.
gm shovo says
Actually every blogger has to consider about alexa ranking.. Why? Not only for selling it, also for various purposes. And for this reason i also try to maintain a good alexa rank for my blog. I am following some tips to maintain good alexa rank. Happy to see some techniques here, which i am currently using.
Amazing tips for improving alexa.
I just never thought about reviews for my blog can help me in improving the ranking
Jane-cool! I didn’t know about the Alexa toolbar and you just made a convert out of me! I just installed it now, pretty neat. And useful…I’m def going to start paying more attention to AR from now on.
I check my ranking in Alexa sometimes though I don’t really find this ranking that reliable. But nevertheless, it still has its uses.
HI Jane, This is some great info on Alexa. I never knew that Alexa ranking would be judged from someone using the alexa tool bar. Interesting. I’m going to try to learn more about this. YOu always inspire me. Blessings, Amy
Jane - This is a great post! I have been working on improving our sites\’ Alexa score for about 6 months. I have has some success, but your additional ideas gave me some further stuff to do!I also appreciated your inclusion of the specific way that Alexa tallies up the rank - I did not know it was a rolling three month measure. Further, I always wondered if when I was working on my site and posting, if I wasn\’t affecting the apparent traffic - good to know that when we visit our own site, it doesn\’t really affect it
You’re right about the accuracy and for some advertisers and webmaster alexa ranking still matters in evaluating a site.
Great article! I actually track the top 100 travel blogs on my site using Alexa as one of the three factors. One thing I’ve noticed that really impacts your Alexa score is where you are based geographically. When I was in South Korea the score for my site was below 20K but now it’s skyrocketed to over 40K.
Thanks for the article still dont get it but know a bit more after reading this
alexa ranking is really awesome and every blogger deserves it. this article is informative
Thanks Jane. Really very informative post on Alexa algorithms. You’ll see Alexa into max usage on flippa or other marketplace where people consider Alexa before placing their BIDS.
“Better the Alexa rankings, higher will be the BID amount”
This is great insight on how Alexa works. Thank you for sharing. I just surpassed 1,000,000 ranking this past weekend after being online for 2 months.
I learned a lot from this information. I was obsessed with getting my ranking down but not I’m relieved that I don’t have to be. I will however continue to improve the traffic to my site as this info was very helpful.
By installing Alexa rank tool bar really boost blog alexa rank
thanks for sharing your idea’s with… really nice article..
Thanks for a great post on Improving Alexa ranking. One thing which i came across - installing Alexa toolbar is of great effect and off-course some link building!!
Great tips for achieving a nice alexa rank for our blog. Alexa rank gives a brief overview of a site.
Hello, Jane Sheeba, Today I came across your blog, and read many articles written by you, and finally commenting on this one just to say that, you have great and versatile writing skills, believe me As i start reading any of your article it make me feels that i am flying in the air, and going up and up… Keep sharing your information with us.
Nice Article jane
I have my own blog AsianVasion.com . It required to much loading time and has low alexa rank. That article will help me to improve alexa rank . Thanx.
From many days, i have lot of confusion regarding alexa rank. but finally clear all the doubts here..
Thanks a lot..
I’ve personally found that Alexa’s traffic stats are horribly inaccurate. Most of the time, they err on the “more” side, i.e. more traffic, more page views, etc.
They really should find another way to track traffic than using their own toolbar.
Regards,
JR John
Now this is what peoples should read about the exact definition and explanation of Alexa. Truly complete, Jane. Definitive guide for me.
Thanks,. Jane, I hadn’t seen this so succinctly put all into one place yet. The “make Alexa a category” in fact was a first, thanks esp. for that advice!