Update on Alexa rank.

Bloglyne.com Alexa rank was 1,219,158

Bloglyne.com Alexa rank today is 1,069,216

You can download the widget and their toolbar from their site here

Also, make sure to check out the “Increasing Alexa Rank – A Joint Experiment” at Connected Internet.

In about two short weeks of posting, I have seen a little less than 210,000 increase in the ol’ Alexa rank.

Bloglyne.com Alexa rank was 1,428,583

Bloglyne.com Alexa rank today is 1,219,158

It is interesting how a bit of effort is seemingly rewarded.

As some of you may or may not know, the ol’ ticker has been giving me some trouble this year.  So, I have been taking the last few weeks off as we have had guests from all over the world visiting us.

Sorry I have not really kept the site up or done much in the way of real article writing recently, but health concerns, guests and continuing to try and get our insurance agency off the ground has been the priority over the past couple of months… well, that tied to continuing to play Desktop TD late into the nights where I cannot sleep.

One interesting note, our Alexa rank seems to be fairly stable around the 200k – 220k level, what I find very interesting about this is that there has not really been much in the way of new content since  June 28th, and it is now July 31st!  I’m not really sure what to make of this, but I am going to “think” on it, do some research and get back with you guys.

Again, I plan on writing a little more consistently moving forward, but over the next 6 months, it will be less than it has been because my focus and priorities need to switch temporarily.

Keep the comments coming, and thanks for continuing to participate and read!

Exciting! In just a few short months Bloglyne.com has broken through the 200,000 Alexa rank to reach 196,552. Our last weeks average was 100,372 – so, we are aggressivley targeting breaking though that 100,000 mark…

Now, there are many folks out there that believe Alexa ranking to be a joke, however, we do not game the system, so our ranking is fought hard for…

We have applied and continue to apply many of the techniques outlined in DoshDosh’s article “20 Quick Ways To Increase Your Alexa Rank” The three items which we have focused on were

1. To install SearchStatus instead of the Alexa Toolbar
2. Put up an Alexa rank widget
3. Use Alexa redirects

Recently Andy Beard put up an article which talks about the “uselessness” of using the redirects – but, I’m not so sure… I think they have worked fine for us so far and we will continue to use a combination of the http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://www.bloglyne.com along with a standard URL when posting comments and link backs to Bloglyne.com

Thanks again to all our readers and subscribers for their support and interest. Let us know if we can write about something which interests you!

I joined the “Increasing Alexa Rank – A Joint Experiment” from Everton’s site on March 27th, 2007. It has been a little over six weeks since beginning the experiment and I have noticed some very interesting and significant results.

I stopped writing weekly updates to the site, because I needed to focus on my business and updating some other affiliate sites, like www.quote-compare-save.com – Even so, with one article on Alexa rank, an Alexa category created and the sidebar widget installed, my rank improved about 100,000 from 370,000 to 274,000

It is interesting how minor changes even if you are not updating content so frequently can gain ranking… I still think that Alexa is, for the most part easily “scammed” – but, to my knowledge, I am not doing anything to scam Alexa on my site, so, I do not think that argument is as valid for my part of the experiment.

Good hunting!

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.