I recently ran across a brief summary post on Connected Internet which referred to an article at DoshDosh highlighting 20 specific tips to improve your Alexa rank.
Most of the steps seem fairly straight forward and ethical, here are 5 that I consider practical to implement quickly:
- 1. Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension and set your blog as your homepage. This is the most basic step.
2. Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website. I did this a few days ago and receive a fair amount of clicks every day.
3. Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar or SearchStatus extension. This includes friends, fellow webmasters as well as site visitors/blog readers.
8. Write content that is related to webmasters. This can fall in the category of domaining and SEO, two fields in which most webmasters will have the Alexa toolbar installed. Promote your content on social networking websites and webmaster forums.
14. Create an Alexa category on your blog and use it to include any articles or news about Alexa. This acts as a resource for webmasters while helping you rank in the search engines.
Some of the tips seem a little “shady†to me like step 4 which talks about installing the Alexa toolbar or SS Firefox extension on all computers in your office and setting your website as the homepage for all browsers on said office computers.
DoshDosh has great articles which provide good and practical tips on how to improve traffic and ranking to your site – Check him out at DoshDosh.com
All in all, I think it would be an interesting experiment for folks to implement the tips they feel comfortable with over the next 30 days and track what happens to their Alexa rank along with their Text Link Ads and ReviewMe profits (since both sites use Alexa ranking to determine what amount to charge for ads on your site).
Good luck and let us know what happens.
I think Dosh Dosh had some great ideas but can’t help but wonder which of these have been the most effective for people.
I’ve been using some of these techniques (Alexa Toolbar, Alexa rank widget), but I can’t tell if my bump (about 200,000 improvement) is due to these factors or my more consistent approach to blogging.
I guess we’ll see!