As I announced earlier that I will be taking questions related to blogging , SEO , Wordpress and MMO. In this series my last post was How to start with a professional blog? . If you have questions regarding any of these topic, you can email me that using Contact page.
Here is a question asked by Robin Son
How should I improve my blog alexa ranking? My traffic has increased a lot from last time but still I lost my alexa rank and from 4 Lack its now 8 Lack
This is one of the most common myth people have about alexa rank i.e = Alexa rank is totally dependent on your website traffic. Fact is website traffic is also considered as a good point here, but that’s not the only point while considering alexa rank.
From my observations, Alexa rank is dependent on your websites updates and also on your traffic. If you update your website daily and your traffic is increasing or even constant your alexa rank will improve with time.
Though to boost your alexa rank you can use few simple tricks, which do not guarantee major boost, but will help you in improving your alexa rank.
Alexa determine the popularity of website by alexa toolbar sparky. So two simple thing which you can do here is install alexa toolbar Sparky in your browser and also let your reader know about this toolbar.
Alexa Widget
I’m not very sure if this helps webmaster or not, but I’m using it on most of my blogs and for some reasons I believe its good and helps. Though people have different opinion about this widget, still I use it here at Shoutmeloud. You can read my previous tutorial on How to get Alexa widget for new alexa.
Alexa review feature
Few days back Alexa added review feature, in which you can add your review for particular website. You can also rate any website you like. You can see shoutmeloud review and add your own review from this link
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://shoutmeloud.com#reviews
Since you can use your facebook profile to login , you don’t need to signup. This is again a good way to improve your alexa rank and your alexa profile.
Summary
So here are few steps which you should do to improve your alexa rank
- Alexa Toolbar
- Alexa Widget
- Update your posts daily
- Traffic
- Alexa review
I also come across one similar tips from another blogger which you might like to read. Tips to increase your alexa rank.
Do you think alexa rank update is proportional to traffic or other factors determine your blog Alexa rank?
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- Alexa Added Review Feature for your Blog
- How to create Alexa widget for new alexa
- Increase your Alexa rank
- Few posts from past to improve your website traffic
- Alexa Rank Not showing Any data Details
- Another Alexa Rank Update for Shoutmeloud
- Google adds Alexa Rank into its Search
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Alexa rank is really kicking the hell out of bloggers !
But I’m not sure how often they update! daily? weekly? Still confusion..
Alexa Rank is totally irrelevant but yes, it does bring Blogger’s attention.
I can give you 100 Reasons why Alexa is Irrelevant.
FYI Alexa updates ranks almost every day. And your Rank is purely based on last 3 months Data.
i.e. if your blog had great traffic 4 months back, and now it’s not, you will have no credit of that.
I wrote blog on this that took 1 year of Research
hai pradeep
Alexa will update twice in a week sometime it may be three times in a week
pradeep is tell about alera, and you posted very detailes. thanks to you all realy it support my blog and me
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have a nice day
i am using alexa widget on website and i found it to be affective to improve the ranking
Thanks for these tips. I am using alexa addon for firefox, it not only helps in alexa ranking and but it also improves the ranking of those sites which I visit regularly.
Very good tips, I completely agree with you.
If not for those stupid direct advertisers, I wouldn’t have given a damn about Alexa rankings
Alexa provides a good gauge of website activity but it’s not the most accurate. I don’t use the toolbar or the widget but I do like to watch my sites move up organically. Since I post regularly and my visitors have increased over time, the Alexa rankings have moved accordingly.
My freebloghelp.com site reached 55,000 for the day (on Friday?) and all of it was due to blogging and promoting with no other tools.
I am not using the alexa widget and neither the alexa toolbar, but my alexa rank is pretty good. From my personal experience, I have found that they update the statistics almost daily
Nice tips
. I will use alexa widget in my blog. I hope it increases my blog ranking.
I always compare bloggers with alexa rank. But other things are more important. Like from where is traffic is coming from.
Rahul . I think Organic traffic is the ever green one. Social media also drives lots of traffic. what do you think?
Yes all of the sudden social media will drive thousands of visitors. And if you write some killer post you will gain lot of RSS readers.
But you should always prefer organic traffic. 100 organic visitors are better then 1,000 social media traffic. In this case your Alexa traffic rank will be much lower then other bloggers. But you are absolutely on right track.
submit your site contact details in your alexa page. Immediately within a week , your alexa rank will be improved.
From personal experience, high Alexa rank isn’t 100% about high traffic. Obviously, you have to have traffic to increase your Alexa rank, but it isn’t always proportional.
Alexa ranks your site based on people who use their toolbar viewing your site. That’s why one day I can be 30,000 on Alexa than another day where I am 60,000 and have 50% more traffic.
One of the best ways to increase your Alexa rank is to encourage your readers to install the Alexa toolbar. The more of your daily readers who have the Alexa toolbar, the faster your Alexa rank will improve.
I tried the Alexa widget also, but I didn’t notice a difference.
thanks for these helpful information
I observe that Alexa changes everyday for my blog and the less it becomes the more smiles it brings on my face.
Even though I am far from PR point of view, Alexa is the one which is driving me.
I have recently come <1 lakh and I presume this would add up in the near future when my blog receives a PR.
i make a point to check my alexa rank everyday….although it does not increase a lot, i love to do it
Alexa rankings no longer depend on statistics from Alexa toolbars and alexa associated services. Now traffic data is collected from various sources . If your upstream traffic is from an established site then your rank is supposed to be higher.
For eg. bookbing ranks 1,835,685 http://www.crimechamber.com ranks 1,490,060 the later has just 20 % of visitors as bookbing but upstream traffic from authoritative blogs like devilsworkshop digital nature etc. and others make the difference.
Rahul had also written a post on this could not link to him as his blog is down.
I recently wrote a similar article all though I like how you put yours together better, much cleaner
Went through yours and its Equally good
. Thanks for your comment Extreme.
I have seen where Alexa rank does not take effect for weeks after an increase in traffic. It is just unknown what percentage of people use the Alexa toolbar (or the Firefox Sparky add-on). Just too many unknowns.
Since I added an Alexa review, my Alexa rank has improved. It’s it just coincidence? I don’t think so but I can’t prove it. So I’m going to ad an Alexa review to all my sites.
I find it very hard to know if the alexa ranking is relevant or not.It seems split 50-50 to those in fovour of its accuracy.
On my website Alexa showing NO DATA? can somebody help me to get of this issue.
Thanks,