How To Increase Alexa Ranking
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By Marcus Hochstadt | Filed 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…
32 Responses to “How To Increase Alexa Ranking”
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Hi,
Your rank just dropped one more. It’s strange to think of rank dropping being good, but there it is. Great post. -
I never expect to gain so much in Alexa ranking.. all thanks to Entrecard and StumbleUpon traffics, I guess
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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, each click counts as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor.
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When 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.
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Everybody 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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Thank 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,
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Hi,
First of all thanks for such a nice article.I have a kids website http://www.BuzziBoy.com . my alexa has been drop tremendously. please visit this site and please help me out. I want to know one more thing…Would i get more benefit , if i have high Alexa traffic ranking? Does it drive more traffic to my web site? -
So on other words we need to drive traffic to our website as the more visitors the more chance there is as those visitors might have the tool bar installed. Will have to start implementing a newsletter and sending clients to the website. Thanks for the post, enjoyed it.
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Hi,
Thanks for the information. But I still want to increase my Alexa India rank. So am still still searching on how to increase it.
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I can not increase Alexa at all :(
I am so depressed and disappointed :(
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You didn’t really describe how you increased your ranking, though. Not everyone can get quoted by prominent bloggers to receive a traffic boost. You did mention that you should post quality content in order to get people to come, and i agree with that. But that’s pretty much the point of blogging in the first place.
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Great tips my friend. I have just sarted to pay attention to alexa ranking and now i’m trying to increase my rank. Cheers
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I think Alexa is not the actual information about the traffic. But its really helpful for people who considering to make their site as a money making machine.
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Great tips, I hope this will up my rank, as it’s been sittin at 2mill for a LONG time now!
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Even our http://www.shopfordesigns.com rank increased in alexa by posting new projects and writing new content. Check alexa. But its like MIPS rating of processors. Meaningless Indicator of Performance Statistics.
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I’m going crazy trying to firgure out why my site took a such a hit going from 700,000 to 1,100,000 in less the n a week. http://www.flyinganxiety.com can anyone help?
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It does take some time to get a high ranking, you really have to be marketing your site a lot to get a huge traffic boost.
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I used to install alexa button on my site then the jump of my rank is so high from 15million to 800.000 for only 2 months, but after got a better traffic I uninstalled the button from my site then now my rank decrease to 1.000.000. The conclusion is an Alexa button takes an important role to increase our rank right?
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Hi Folks, thats a really interesting topic.
Its clearly known that alexa ranking is a very important factor like page rank and backlinks. That is the reason it is emphasized everywhere. Any addition to your webpages, good keywords, unique articles, links(on page optimization) or Posting to high page rank sites ( off page optimization ) will certainly boost the alexa ranking.
Apart from that having the alexa toolbar makes a difference, but it is not the end result. The alexa tool bar cannot take you to the top beyond certain extent. That is my view, hope this helps, let me know if you need anything else.
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If anyone with alexa toolobar installed in his computer will help in increasing alexa rank. Alexa measure rank according to traffic on your site by the persons who have installed alexa toolbar.
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I have noticed a steady improvement in my “a-rank” I can’t wait until I get to the numbers you guys are talking about!
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