I was reading an article last week about how to raise your Alexa ranking for your website or blog, and I decided to try it out. I want to inform you that when I first started this experiment my Alexa ranking was around the 3.5 million ranking. Before I tell you what my current Alexa ranking is, I would like to cover what an Alexa ranking is, and how it can benefit your website.
A website’s Alexa rank is decided by the browsing data received from millions of internet users who are all using the Alexa Toolbar. Using the Alexa toolbar will not only report your internet browsing information to Alexa.com, it will also tell you some information about the websites that you visit. This will be important in telling you things such as how many people visit this site on a daily basis, how much time is spent on average, how many incoming links a site has and much more.
A website with a higher Alexa rank, somewhere above 50,000 would be a good site for you to possibly advertise your own business or website on. Likewise, if you have a website or blog with a very high Alexa ranking, an advertiser will be more likely to pay higher monthly fees for their advertising slots. Being able to generate a few thousand dollars a month just off of advertisements on your blog should be able to carry your primary business to whatever level of success you desire.
The Big Secret…
Now that we’ve covered the Alexa toolbar, what it reports to Alexa.com and how that can benefit you, I’d like to share with you this little trick that I recently learned that took my Alexa ranking up dramatically in 1 week. Alexa has a site widget available for you to put in the sidebar of your blog that will show up-to-date Alexa data and rankings right on your website. To be completely honest I don’t understand why it works, and neither did the person who shared this information with me, but my Alexa ranking is proof that it does work.
Try it yourself…
If you don’t believe me, then I encourage you to conduct a simple little experiment. Download the Alexa toolbar or a firefox add-on called Search Status, and keep track of your Alexa ranking over a 1-2 week time period. After that time period is up, place the Alexa widget on your blog and take note of the dramatic difference in your Alexa ranking over the next week. I was amazed when in 1 week my ranking is now at 1.5 million which is over a 50% increase from where it began. I don’t think the 1.5 million mark is anything to be proud of yet, but I do think that the dramatic increase speaks for itself.
I learned this method from a fellow blogger where I got the idea, and decided to share it with others. Here’s the orignal article all about Alexa Rankings.
Combine this with some SEO methods, and watch your website start generating some serious traffic. When you decide to write a specific blog post do a little keyword research using the google keyword tool or something like it, and write your blog posts using those specific keywords. After you make your blog posts, you should be using a tool called Onlywire to simultaneously release your blog post to multiple social bookmarking and networking sites around the web. All of these things combined should increase your Alexa ranking by atleast 25% in a week or so.
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I never thought of adding the widget to get a better ranking, Ive found a decent amount of manual traffic exchange surfers use the tool bar, so adding your site to manual exchanges helps a lot to
Awesome tip Jordan!
The results speak for themselves! Thanks!
Aidan
Great Info Jordan!!! I like the new blog look!!
Thanks Stuart… You know I was just trying to live up to how AWESOME Your blog looks.
good stuff as usual Jordan still pluggin away in the bootcamp. thanks for all you do.
Loving the Enthusiasm Steve… Keep Rockin Man!
Hey jordan!
thanks for the post, I am already seeing results!
I loved it when I found it, because it really does work that fast. Make sure to check out Yaro’s blog…that’s where I found the tip, and he’s got tons of great tips on blogging.
I loved it when I found it, because it really does work that fast. Make sure to check out Yaro's blog…that's where I found the tip, and he's got tons of great tips on blogging.
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