Increasing Alexa Rank - A Joint Experiment
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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Comment by Everton on 10 May 2007:
We’ve missed you mate
Comment by Mark from Bloglyne.com on 10 May 2007:
Put an article up at Bloglyne - Increasing Alexa Rank Experiment - with updates on my part of the experiment.
Interesting results since I have backed off of comments on other sites like Connected Internet and have not updated content for about 4 weeks.
I noticed an increase of about 100k from March 27th.
Comment by Everton on 10 May 2007:
Alexa ranks are good for a quick proxy of which sites have more traffic, but becuase it relies on sampling to create the stats it is never going to be 100% accurate.
I wouldn’t call these tips cheating as I don’t think that is fair e.g. you wouldn’t call the many actions that people take to try and improve their page rank cheating.
Comment by Ken Xu on 10 May 2007:
Cool tips. So, alexa is just a cheating tool to show web’s ranking?? That’s mean my rank 378000+ is a modified rank? Hmmm… I’m not understand the detail. If your statement is true, I can’t rely on Alexa ranking anymore.
Do you have any alternative ranking tool or site that can’t be cheated like alexa.com?
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Comment by Ahmad on 2 May 2007:
I did place the widget on a part of the site no one could see, for visual reasons I thought it would be better. I went from a rank of 330K, to 174K…So it does work…Not only that if you actually click on you widget everyday it helps too…
Thanks,
Ahmad
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Comment by Zath on 28 April 2007:
I’ve only added Alexa widget to my sidebar on my site and installed the SearchStatus extension on all my pcs so far, but I’ve seen a great improvement in the past few weeks, going from around 2.5mill rank to 629k.
Might try one or two of the other suggestions when I get chance, but it’s going ok so far.
Thanks for the tips!
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