5 Quick Ways to Improve Your Alexa Rank

Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by Vivek Krishnan in Blog Tips

Alexa rank is an evil obsession. It is tough for a new blogger to believe that the Alexa rank is a highly flawed system of ranking sites. But Life’s Imperfect. Alexa rank is skewed to rank sites with webmaster/technology related content. The reason why Alexa rank is not correct is because it only counts visits by visitors who have the Alexa toolbar installed in their browser. And a web savvy, tech-oriented audience are more likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed in their browser. General users who visit your site are not counted in the traffic rank as they do not have the Alexa rank.

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Why Would You Want To Improve Your Alexa rank?

No matter what you say about Alexa rank, it is still one of the most sought after parameters by sponsors and advertisers. If you intend to make money online, then having a good Alexa rank is the most basic requirement. Sites like Text Link Ads, Buy Sell Ads all give a lot of importance to Alexa rank.

Collegefallout has improved its Alexa rank from around 5,000,000 to 171,000 in a few months. I would credit the drastic improvement in its rank to the large amount of blogging related content and some techology related posts in CollegeFallOut.

Now I will tell you some quick ways to improve your Alexa rank.

Create Posts on Alexa and Alexa Ranks: This point cannot be utilized by all niches, but as a general tip you can write articles on Alexa rank and how to improve it. There are many webmasters and bloggers who are desperate to boost their Alexa rank and keep searching the web for tips – most of them have the Alexa toolbar installed. So if they find your content you are boosting your Alexa rank when they make a visit.

Optimize Webmaster Forums: No matter what your niche is, you can always be a part of webmaster forums. Almost all webmasters will have the Alexa toolbar installed with them. Take an active participation interest in forum threads and provide valuable comments. The webmaster forums can be a great way for you to drive traffic to your site who have the Alexa toolbar thereby boosting your Alexa ranks.

Optimize Asian Forums/Social Networks: Asians are smart people, most users are tech oriented guys. I am from India and I see many of my friends who do not even blog use Alexa toolbar in their browsers. It is mainly because of their interest in technology and the need to be in sync with the latest. So if you can focus on driving traffic from Asian countries through social networks etc. it can help improve your Alexa rank.

Comment On Other Blogs: Comment on blogs that are at currently at the same level as yours. This way when you leave a comment they will also come back to return a comment on your posts. Again, they will have the Alexa toolbar installed with them so you can be assured that your Alexa rank will take a positive bump. This is a great tip to use especially for blogs that are still at a starting level. I used this technique when my rank was in millions and observed positive results.

Get Dugg, Stumbled etc.: As a general trend Digg can send you sharp spikes in traffic and their users are generally web savvy so you can find good improvement in your Alexa rank. The only challenge you will face to implement this tip is to create the content of such quality that it is dugg by many.

Over to you, do you know any more quick ways to improve your Alexa rank? Let me know below.

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