Increasing Alexa Rank – A Joint Experiment
Everton | Mar 25, 2007 | Comments 88
I have 2 sites now so I can see first-hand how inaccurate Alexa Ranks can be, which are supposed to measure the level of traffic a site gets. The inaccuracies are created because Alexa relies on measuring how many users who have installed the Alexa IE toolbar.
For many sites these inaccuracies aren’t an issue, but many advertising services like Text-Link Ads and ReviewMe, as well as potential advertisers use these stats to gauge the value of advertising on a site, so monitoring your Alexa Rank can be important.I’ve become a bit frustrated with the fact that my Alexa Rank (currently 26,070) is lower than some sites where based on Google Analytics data I have more traffic. So, I’ve decided to try a few of the methods that DoshDosh have suggested to improve Alexa Rank, and it’d be good if as many of my readers as possible took part to see it works for their sites as well.
Maki listed 20 steps to Increase Alexa Rank, but to take part in the experiment you only need to try 1 or more of the steps below (remember to record your Alexa Rank before you start):
- Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension and set your blog as your homepage. This is the most basic step
- Add an Alexa rank widget on your website
- Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar. This includes friends, fellow webmasters as well as site visitors/blog readers
- Use Alexa redirects on your website URL. Try this: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.connectedinternet.co.uk. Replace connectedinternet.co.uk 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
If sufficient numbers of your readers join the experiment and follow steps 1&3 then your Alexa Rank should definitely increase. It’ll be interesting to see if anyone sees any improvement from adding the Alexa rank widget.
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we were able to increase alexa ranking further
by placing the alexa statistics display on the homepage.
check this: http://www.ourwedding.in
the code we placed at the end of the page:
Hmm let me tell you my experince… I launched slBlogs.org 1st of january 2008. I tried the alexa tool bar and made my blog home paged. Then ofcause I made this discovery. Its very easy to get in to 1 million margin by it self. But there after bit tough. You need readers. With about 100 readers per day you can easily sneak in to 300000 margin where I am… Awesome right.. Hmm but i haven’t used that redirect issue. Will work on that as well and see… Hope my experience is useful.
I was wondering if there was another website like Alexa but with some more real values?
Yes, there is http://www.quantcast.com it appears more accurate for English Speaking / USA sites though not for foreign sites, at least it is worth comparing.
While hi5 maintains its strong hold in Central America, it faces tough competition in Asia from many social networking sites. Hi5.com comes in first ten ranking in http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=www.fortunehotels.in Alexa.com.
Really useful post, this help me in all my seo projects. Thanks.
This is not working any more !!!http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.connectedinternet.co.uk
This is a great post, fortunately 70% of the time of website owner is consumed in experimenting towards increasing page rank and alexa rank. To start with increasing page rank one must start with downloading Alexa toolbar for IE or firefox on as many system possible. as a second step alexa widget on every page of your website, by this way every webpage opened is counted while calculating rank inspite is user does not have alexa toolbar installed knowtheworldaround.com