How To Increase Alexa Ranking
Jan 8 by Marcus Hochstadt | Posted in Strategies
Would you like to increase the Alexa Ranking of your Web site? I did it myself a couple times already, and once again just recently.
Two weeks ago on December 24, 2007, the Alexa Ranking of this domain, hochstadt.com, was below 3,000,000. Today, its one-week average is at a more glorious 175,347. (In Brazil, I’m even on 19,264!) That’s a huge jump of more than 2,800,000 spots. (With the 1,400% jump in Reach they currently display, I actually should be on the Movers/Shakers page, shouldn’t I? ;-)
How did I accomplish that?
Simple answer: I initiated a traffic boost.
I own that domain since 2002, but up to that point I used it mainly for my day-to-day e-mail communication. In December, I decided it was time to “do something more useful” with it and put up a blog. I then announced to the small lists I own and to a whole bunch of friends and relatives by mentioning a Christmas Card in HTML format. (It was a plain simple HTML page with a picture (still live) and text in three languages, as well as a small link to the home page where I was playing around with the Wordpress installation.)
Some of them obviously have the Alexa Toolbar installed. That’s where the first jump around Christmas occurred.
The second jump happened when James Brausch honored one of my posts on his blog on January 2nd.
By the way, Jack S. Keifer has also experiences with increasing his Alexa Ranking. As of today, his one-week average ranking is at 159,503 (jumped up from 3,550,000.) Even when you compare our site’s ranking, the curves (representing the past three months) are very similar, aren’t they…
(C’mon Jack; let’s push our sites up to the next level! :-)
Jack was inspired by an article Richard Lee recently published on how to improve your site’s A-Ranking. (New word, huh?) Also a nice method to pump it up.
Bottom line? Alexa is useless for measuring your own traffic. Use more reliable tools such as Google Analytics, Site Meter, and the like for that.
It IS useful for comparing how you are doing against your competitors and friends. And the better the ranking (above 100,000) the more accurate the data becomes.
Stay within your theme, post quality content on a regular basis, and you’ll soon as well attract more visitors to your site, therefore it is likely your Alexa Ranking climbs up, too.
See you at the top!
—Marcus Hochstadt
P.S. In case you have it not done yet, here’s the link to download and install the Alexa Toolbar on your computer…
11 Responses for "How To Increase Alexa Ranking"
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January 17th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
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February 2nd, 2008 at 8:28 am
2[...] to a post I made three weeks ago on how to increase Alexa Ranking, the my blog’s Ranking climbed up to the roof within the last two [...]
Storm (1 comments)
February 22nd, 2008 at 4:42 am
3Hi,
Your rank just dropped one more. It’s strange to think of rank dropping being good, but there it is. Great post.
Michael Aulia (7 comments)
March 28th, 2008 at 3:26 am
4I never expect to gain so much in Alexa ranking.. all thanks to Entrecard and StumbleUpon traffics, I guess
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April 4th, 2008 at 6:37 am
5Is there any other way to increase the Alexa Ranking?
George Lindemann Jr (4 comments)
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:45 am
6Put 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, each click counts as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor.
RootZoo Sports (1 comments)
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:55 am
7When you look at things on a day to day basis, I’ve found that our alexa rank often goes against our traffic trends. On our higher traffic days, our ranking will sometimes be lower than it is on days with less traffic.
With that said, the system seems to have improved in terms of accuracy since Alexa launched their new ranking system.
A friend of mine runs a site with 8% of our daily page view total and used to have a ranking 30,000 places above us in terms of 3 month average. This was simply a result of the fact that his audience is more “internet savvy” and more likely to have the alexa toolbar installed. Fortunately for our sake, the rankings are far more appropriate since the new system was launched and seem to be more reflective of this.
I should also add that our daily rankings are a bit more in line with traffic since the new ranking system was launched. Day to day data can sometimes be a little inaccurate, but things over the long haul generally trend with traffic. As you point out, it’s all about the traffic.
Good stuff.
drt (1 comments)
May 24th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
8Everybody seems to get a jump in their A-rank (borrowed your new word) once they installed the alexa toolbar except me. Yes, I got a jump but from 4,400,000 to 5,300,000. :-) Don’t know what’s wrong? Do you have any idea? Thanks.
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May 25th, 2008 at 3:06 am
9[...] then install the alexa-toolbar and I would see a tremendous increase in my A-Ranking (borrowed from Marcus Hochstadt) number. Some of them got it overnight, but too bad, that didn’t happen to [...]
Alex (4 comments)
June 9th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
10Thank you for useful information, unfortunately this is long term. w. Is anybody knows real web traffic providers. I tried to google by looks like most of them are scam.
Thank you,
Alex
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