10 Tips For Improving Your Alexa Rating

Blogs and websites are judged by Alexa ratings as much as Google PR rankings. Here are 10 tips on how to improve your Alexa rating from CristianR.

1 ) Download the Alexa toolbar , install it , set your home page as default and surf it at least once , on a daily basis . The same goes for your friends and fellow webmasters that have the Alexa toolbar installed , ask them to browse your site from time to time .

2 ) Focus your site more on webmaster related topics , as i have previously mentioned , statistics show that it’s a higher chance that webmasters will have the toolbar installed .

3 ) Make yourself known , participate in many forums , websites and even blogs within the same niche as you .

4 ) Optimize your most popular articles and be sure to use Alexa redirects if possible .

5 ) Write an article about how to increase your Alexa rank , and have it published with major article publishing companies . Have it spread all over the web so you’re sure you’ll get backlinks as well .

6 ) Buy PPC ads on search engines to increase your traffic , don’t worry , your Alexa will go down .

7 ) Because of the way Alexa retrieves it’s traffic stats , it’s very easy to get it manipulated . Joining an autosurf network might just do the trick . Be aware that , usually people on the surfs sell credits which are not the equivalent of a visit .

8 ) Put up an Alexa rank Widget - every click will count as a visit .

9 ) Create a section dedicated to webmasters on your blog , give them a reason to come back to your blog , thus ensuring yourself with a decent amount of traffic .

10 ) Get dugg , stubmled or anything else , making it to the first page a couple of times will dramatically improve your Alexa rank because of the high number of visits you’ll be getting