How To Increase Alexa Rank
ADVERTISEMENTSAlexa Rank is measured by the level of traffic your web site receives from the number of people who visit with the Alexa toolbar installed. It is important for you to increase your Alexa rank because advertisers and advertising services like Text Link Ads and ReviewMe use your site’s Alexa rank as a way to determine the worth of a link on your web site.
You can sell links on your site at a high price if you have a high Alexa Rank, so it is important to increase your Alexa Rank.
Dosh Dosh has suggested 20 quick ways to increase Alexa Ranking, out of which I tried only two and my Alexa Rank has already improved!
Around June last year I placed the Alexa Traffic Rank Button on this site and my Alexa Rank continually increased from around 90,000 to 20,000 until I removed the Alexa Traffic Rank Button after a redesign.
Only recently I noticed that my Alexa rank was decreasing slowly (around 26,000) and I decided to try out some of the tips suggested on Dosh Dosh.
I just tried two out of the 20 tips provided and my Alexa Rank has improved slowly from around 26,000 to 25,576 in about 2 weeks.
The two things I tried to improve my Alexa Ranking were:
- Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension
- Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website
What have you done to increase your Alexa Ranking?
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Posted on April 12th, 2007 | Category: Tutorials |
egon
April 12, 2007 at 5:47 pm
I just wrote an article on Alexa and the Search Status Plugin here: http://egonitron.com/2007/04/1.....us-plugin/
I’m glad they came out with that plugin, hopefully it will help even out the playing field, considering the only thing Alexa could count on before is people using their toolbar in IE. It’s terribly inaccurate.
sourcer
April 12, 2007 at 5:50 pm
I have placed a Alexa Widget on my site, I hope I will see some improvements.
DoshDosh presented some good ways to increase Alexa rankings but what he said is important not only for Alexa, those tips are good for increasing your traffic and for getting more backlinks also.
Vijay
April 12, 2007 at 6:15 pm
How effective do you think the autosurf thing for alexa is?
I really hate installing the alexa toolbar..
egon
April 12, 2007 at 6:33 pm
: Not familiar with the autosurf, just get Firefox and the Search Status plugin.
Ashwin
April 12, 2007 at 6:34 pm
I dunno if it works or my blog really get the traffic, but the FX plugin seems to work. At least the Traffic ranking from the country u surf increases drastically.
I’m almost in the top 4000 rank for the UAE.
egon
April 12, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Of course you do have the blackhat techniques, if that’s how you want to go (Alexa redirect URL force visit for example.)
Manas
April 12, 2007 at 7:44 pm
I have installed the Search Status plugin
Let me wait and see, if it works for my blog.
jake
April 12, 2007 at 8:27 pm
i think its to much trouble to implement all those technique’s.
egon
April 12, 2007 at 9:40 pm
: It depends on how much you care about your ranking. To some people it’s nothing compared to working on other SEO techniques. A lot of advertising companies look at your Alexa rank to determine how much you’re going to make, and that’s a big deal. Well worth the trouble in my opinion.
Madhur Kapoor
April 13, 2007 at 12:16 am
I recently installed the alexa toolbar , lets see if mine improves or not .
Ashish Mohta
April 13, 2007 at 12:20 am
I am not sure if installing alexa script will be helpful. They are more bothered about how many people will be using toobar so they can count.
egon
April 13, 2007 at 12:47 am
: Please explain, I guess I don’t know what you mean by “installing alexa script.”
egon
April 13, 2007 at 12:51 am
: I wouldn’t expect to see a big difference just from you installing the toolbar. If you can encourage your readers to do the same, that might help a bit.
Ashish Mohta
April 13, 2007 at 12:56 am
and : You see the alexa script installed on JohnTp.com’s Sidebar ? That shows the alexa rank and other things….I am talking about that
egon
April 13, 2007 at 1:06 am
: ok, I see what you’re saying. I agree, I questioned how much that would actually help rankings, but I installed it on one of my blogs to try it out (AutomoBlog.net) and my rank did indeed jump a bit, it’s just hard to tell if it’s from that or because my site is becoming increasingly popular.
JohnTP
April 13, 2007 at 1:10 am
Ashish and egon- I am not sure if the Alexa Rank Button helps to increase Alexa Rank or not, but I do remember my Alexa Rank improving from around 90,000 to 20,000 after I had placed the Alexa Rank button on my sidebar on June last year.
Once I removed the Alexa Rank Button, I noticed my Alexa Rank decreasing, so I put it back, and once again my Alexa Rank started improving slowly.
So do you think Alexa Rank Button helps to increase Alexa Rank?
egon
April 13, 2007 at 1:17 am
Wow John, numbers like that would certainly convince me to keep it up there
For me, I took off the button and my rank hasn’t dropped yet, but if it does, you better believe I’m putting it back up.
Gili
April 13, 2007 at 3:23 am
To my best knowledge and experience,installing the Alexa Toolbar will give small web sites a huge boost.
Also Getting your web site reviewed by people in Alexa will help.
egon
April 13, 2007 at 3:48 am
Another (greyhat) technique is to link to your site in signatures and whatnot with an Alexa redirect URL (http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.yoursite.com) That way all traffic goes through Alexa first. I don’t condone using that of course
Ashish Mohta
April 13, 2007 at 5:55 am
: Thats funny , ranking must be based on when people visit not by putting some script. This sounds like alexa’s self advertsing scheme “Put my button and your rank will improve”
Vince Cordic
April 13, 2007 at 7:38 am
Perhaps the Alexa rank button acts as a counter for Alexa if it detects that the toolbar isn’t installed. That could explain why your rank goes up when you install it.
Then again maybe not, I took a look at the script source and I don’t see anything like that, it could be transparent though.
Personally I’m not sure why ad networks bother looking at Alexa data, it can easily be manipulated, and is usually skewed anyways depending on the market.
egon
April 13, 2007 at 7:46 am
I agree Vince, and I’m not sure how the Alexa widget does whatever it does, if anything. I hate how ad networks rely so much on Alexa, but honestly what else are they going to use? If nothing else, it gives a general idea of the popularity of a site. I mean, chances are, a site with a ranking of 75,000 is more popular than a site with a ranking of 175,000. Unfortunately, they *are* easy to manipulate. I just wish there was a more reliable method of ranking sites other than Google PR.
Ashwin
April 13, 2007 at 4:45 pm
I’m using the FX plugin and I think it works well, atleast if you see that your country (from which you access) Alexa rank is improved.
Abdul Aziz
April 14, 2007 at 4:23 pm
I just implemented the redirect URL (redirect.alex.com….) Ill see if it makes a difference.
Ahmad
April 22, 2007 at 12:08 am
This works….Also something that will boost your rank without any work, is go to a site where people use the alexa tool bar…Social trading/SEO Chats/There is a site that trades websites based off of Alexa ranking, they all have toolbars…
Thanks,
Ahmad
http://www.ezluv.com
Matt
April 26, 2007 at 3:35 pm
We have released AlexaAutoSurf.com - an auto-surf site that only allows users with the Alexa toolbar to join/surf. Take a look at it, most of the sites in the network have already jumped from 7-8 million all the way close to 100,000. It’s a great way to receive thousands of hits daily and you’ll see the results on Alexa!
Shashank
April 30, 2007 at 1:39 am
i never bothered about alexa but i think it needs to look at it seriously now.
Beth
May 4, 2007 at 4:30 pm
As far as the redirect goes, I use it but only on the “home” link on my blog. Since a majority of people will click it to return to the front page, believe it or not it does help. Other than this method I added the Alexa widget and the Firefox addon. I’ve gone from 275,000 to 126,000 in about 3 weeks.
egon
May 4, 2007 at 7:36 pm
: For AlexaAutoSurf, that’s a good idea but you need the actual toolbar to use it. I don’t use IE, and I am going to guess a lot of other people around here don’t either. I use the SearchStatus plugin which reports to Alexa. You should support that as well..
: Congrats on the Alexa jump, what Firefox addon are you talking about, the SearchStatus plugin?
Matt
May 4, 2007 at 8:42 pm
egon: Thank you for the feedback. Due to a higher volume of project requests from our clients, I am unable to add support for SearchStatus, but I will notify a few of my developers and see hopefully we’ll support it within a few days. I hope to see everyone there soon, it’s a new site, and honestly, I launched the site because I was looking for something similar but could not find any online site that had the results that I was looking for.
-Matt
shashank
May 5, 2007 at 9:00 pm
alexa rank button and firefox extension installed lets see ..
and the present rank is really horrible 7 lakh something
hope it will improve a bit.
Latest Technology Updates
May 10, 2007 at 12:25 am
hey i seen a drop in alexa ranking it is now 6,4 lakh something…
also John how does Alexa calculates the links in ..
Subhash
June 7, 2007 at 3:30 pm
I have also added alexa button on my website and waiting for good results.
Webmastern.se
June 11, 2007 at 1:38 am
How can “Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website” improve Alexa ranking?
Webmaster times
June 14, 2007 at 5:21 am
Well I have learned a lot from posts like these. I can testify to seeing an excellent improvement in my page ranking (about 27%!) after doing the following 4 things…
1)Using this site, which is free, that sends thousands of people to my sites everyday
2)Getting the firefox extension (alternative to the alexa toolbar)
3)Adding the alexa widget to my site. (to a previous poster- this works because it counts more of your traffic, rather than just those with the alexa toolbar)
4)Using the following URL whenever possible
“http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.xxxxxxxxxxx.com”
just replace the x’s with your sites’ url.
I highly recommend doing all 4!
Thanks again for this post! (i do have to say though that the widget only seems to record somewhere in the neighborhood of 15% of actual traffic). Using the redirect through alexa will count a lot of the hits to your site that the widget misses. It only counts a hit once per 24hrs per IP address however.
Best of luck to all.
suray
July 3, 2007 at 10:04 am
I am considering that Alexa Traffic Rank is not the actual information about the traffic that we have earned. But its really helpful for people who considering to make their site as a money machine by doing PayPerPost or selling a place to put ads.
suray,
at SurayBlog
Balinese
August 16, 2007 at 6:56 am
Well i’m not really sure you can increase your ranking by just putting a widget. But if it does work please inform me.
Kaloyan
August 19, 2007 at 3:00 pm
This plugin is no good, since it screws with your links, and in this way diminishing your Google ranking and search results. A better option is to make the Alexa redirecting JavaScript-powered: in this way the HTML will not be modified, and the redirects will still work. I’ve applied this technique to a new plugin called Better “Alexa Redirect” WordPress plugin. If you are interested about it, visit this URL to learn more about it:
http://kaloyan.info/blog/bette.....ct-plugin/
or visit this page to download it:
http://wp-alexa-redirect.googlecode.com/
Marek
August 24, 2007 at 4:29 am
Well, I’ve just (today) put Alexa widget on my site and installed Firefox plugin. I’m not sure about Alexa redirects though…
shiv
August 27, 2007 at 5:21 pm
How to-increase-your-Alexa-rank.plz tell me some idea.
what should i do.i am wating for ur reply
Thx & Regard
Shiv
Web Design Ireland
August 30, 2007 at 2:57 am
when i started to increase my alexa rank i used the redirect from alexa to my website, and installed the alexa toolbar and would flick through the my pages a few times so alexa know that the pages are there and my alexa increased but that was about 3 months ago and i left it since then and it shot back up again
ModernOrganic Mama
September 10, 2007 at 2:01 am
Thanks for the links. I have installed the tool bar and the widget and am hoping to see some improvements.
Shelby
http://www.modernorganicmama.com
ronaldmojica
September 27, 2007 at 8:40 am
thanx for the links… really helpful… im new on seo
Beautiful Minds
December 17, 2007 at 10:20 am
Thanks for the info.. will check the stuffs.. I’m also able to increase the rank now a days.. lemme try with the other stuffs
Ania
January 10, 2008 at 5:31 am
Now your score is #19,806 it’s great and still “dropping”. Awesome !
You know, I have an opinion about what you write is what you get! If you can write something with enthusiasm, than you an achieve it. Like writing on Alexa Traffic Rank…
I’ve started a blog on career, jobs, and so on 2 days ago, and now it has a rank #10,000,667.
Just watch it how fast the rank is dropping!!!
It’s amazing!
If I reach #1million I let you know it ;)!
http://www.polish-in-budapest.info/
webmaster
January 18, 2008 at 3:59 pm
We were able to achieve a jump in alexa rankings by using the alexa redirect. Check this out: http://www.ourwedding.in
A further increase (at a faster pace) was achieved by adding the alexa ranking display widget on the home page.
The code we added for this:
Hope this helps others to improve their alexa rankings.
See: http://blog.ourwedding.in/?p=7
INconstantIN
January 19, 2008 at 2:23 am
And where is your Alexa ranking button? Cause I really can’t see it.
webmaster
January 19, 2008 at 10:32 am
Hi INconstantIN,
The alexa site rank / traffic widget is at the end of the page (below the footer) - you need to scroll down:
http://www.ourwedding.in
Regular users don’t scroll below the footer area. Even when they scroll there is nothing bad in them seeing our traffic ranking.
We have displayed this on the our blog posting also:
http://blog.ourwedding.in/?p=7
Our traffic is counted when
- our home page is accessed (http://www.ourwedding.in)
- our blog is accessed (http://blog.ourwedding.in/?p=7)
Hope this clarifies your doubts.
INconstantIN
January 20, 2008 at 2:07 am
Well, I thought you were speaking about Alexa rank widget being displayed on your blog:)! Of course I can see it on ourwedding.in Then, my next question would be why don’t you have a similar widget on your blog?
webmaster
January 21, 2008 at 9:24 am
We have on home page as well as on the blog. URL for the blog page: http://www.ourwedding.in/blog/?p=7
Shams
January 21, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Hello John, it’s true that doshdosh has some advices to increase traffic rank. But finally it’s the content of your blog that remains as the main factors. Greetings.
Mike
January 26, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Thanks for the Alexa tips.
Roman
January 27, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Interesting. Anybody has any relation between Alexa Rank and traffic? I can offer mine - the site with AR~400k has approx 130UV/day. Another site with AR~3mil has approx 15-20 UV/day.
fedmich
February 17, 2008 at 6:37 am
Thanks for this tips.
Don’t you think alexa auto surf is a scam or simply a waste of time?
TrafficGuru
February 20, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Its very important to increase alexa ranking to all of us.Thanks 4 the nice post.keep updating
John
February 24, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Pretty good post. You can also check out http://www.site-popularity.com for a prog that checks your Alexa Rank.
buyers web make money online blog
February 26, 2008 at 5:59 am
Thanks for the info and advice on alexa ranking…will implement them…:)
Devin
March 20, 2008 at 2:04 am
I did install the alexa widget on my site and afterwards my website dropped from around 3,000,000 down to 1,000,000. However I did use a little more google adwords. I feel that putting the widget on your site makes you more aware of your ranking and thus makes you want to work a little harder to improve it.
Dubai Real Estate
March 29, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Can any one tell me that why alexa always count ranking in minus for each website..?
Fortunehotels ranking in Alexa
April 3, 2008 at 12:38 pm
If you depend on link or site selling as a form of monetization you’ll definitely want to increase your http://www.alexa.com/data/deta.....ehotels.in Alexa rank, because it’ll increase your bargaining power when it comes to ad pricing.
Steve
April 6, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Does it help if you put the alexa widget on more than one page. My site http://www.stamps.net.au currently has a ranking of 3160,433 so it would be good to drop it
Dubaiboy
April 8, 2008 at 11:50 pm
The alexa redirect didn’t work ever. It was only a myth for those who were desperate to improve their ranking. The tool bar does work to some extend.
Cheers.
http://www.dubaicityinfo.com
Bhawna
April 30, 2008 at 5:18 am
does these tips really works, I have started implementing them
Bux.to News and Stats
May 9, 2008 at 8:34 pm
My visitors are 100 from last 2 months and they are not rising. How can I improve my rating.
Jemade
July 10, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I’ve placed alexa widget on my blog,, from the first three days my ranking went up by 2million then increased again by 9million..but it went back again on its low position.. is this possible?
visit my site.
http://dye-meyd.blogspot.com
Raj Yadav
July 11, 2008 at 11:30 am
I’ve started kids website http://www.BuzziBoy.com on 1 yaer ago, and now it has a rank #892800. intially i was in 3 lacs….
Just watch it how fast the rank is dropping!!!
Please,please have a look and let me knw the reason behind this…
anydude
July 29, 2008 at 10:59 am
My installed the toolbar 2 weeks ago & my site is ard 500K now. But I didn’t really see a big change in the ranking though
http://www.anydude.com