Alexa Traffic Ranking

Alexa Toolbar

The first Alexa toolbar was released in 1997. Now, over 10 million downloads later, the Alexa toolbar is global and more popular than ever. Plug this essential tool into your browser for free if you have not already and see what the world is talking about. Sign up!

Alexa Site Information - Alexa has built an unparalleled database of information about sites that includes statistics, related links and more. All of this information can be found on Alexa's Site Overview pages, Traffic Detail pages and Related Links pages. To access these pages, simply type the URL of any site into the Alexa Search box.
Alexa could not exist without the participation of the Alexa Toolbar community. Each member of the community, in addition to getting a useful tool, is giving back. Simply by using the toolbar each member contributes valuable information about the web, how it is used, what is important and what is not. This information is returned to the community as Related Links, Traffic Rankings and more.

 Alexa Search and Browse - Alexa has taken search and browse to the next level and made it more complete, more relevant and more useful. Some key features include thumbnail images of sites and site information balloons, both of which help you to make quick decisions about which results are useful to you and which are not. Try Search and Browse.

Webmaster Tools

Alexa has created a series of tools specifically for web site owners. These tools can help to drive traffic, make money, find broken links and more! Go to Webmaster Services.

Why would you want to increase your Alexa rank?

Webmasters, advertisers and ad networks use your blogs Alexa rank as a gauge to determine the worth of a link on your website. If you depend on link or site selling as a form of monetary gain you will definitely want to increase your Alexa rank, because it will increase your bargaining power when it comes to ad pricing.

Problems with the Alexa Rank

Alexa has a silly way to measure web traffic but unfortunately,Alexa heavily favors those websites that are already Alexa toolbar savvy, such as webmasters and the like, more so than those visitors who are unaware of Alexa, making Alexa a vastly inaccurate way of measuring a websites reach, traffic and potentiality's fact still does not deter webmasters and ad networks, who heavily use Alexa to measure the value of advertising on their website.

Can you manipulate the Alexa Ranking?

I believe that there are methods which will allow you to easily bring an Alexa ranking in the millions down to the 100,000 level. However, bringing it past the 10,000 or 1,000 mark is a considerably more difficult process, because of the stiff competition among websites. It is important to emphasize that you should devote most of your efforts in growing your site audience alongside integrated implementation of any of the following tips below.

# Install the Alexa toolbar or Fire fox's Search Status extension and set your blog as your homepage. This is the most basic step.

# Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website - I did this a few days ago and received a fair amount of clicks every day. According to some, each click counts as a visit even if the toolbar is not used by the visitor.

# Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar - This includes friends, fellow webmasters as well as site visitors/blog readers. Be sure to link to Alexa’s full explanation of their toolbar and tracking system so your readers know what installing the toolbar or extension entails.

# Get friends to review and rate your Alexa website profile- Not entirely sure of its impact on rankings but it might help in some way.

# Write or Blog about Alexa - Webmasters and bloggers love to hear about ways to increase their Alexa rank. They will link to you and send you targeted traffic (i.e. visitors with the toolbar already installed). This gradually has effects on your Alexa ranking.

# Flaunt your URL in webmaster forums - Webmasters usually have the toolbar installed. You will get webmasters to visit your website and offer useful feedback. It’s also a good way to give back to the community if you have useful articles to share with others.

# Use Alexa redirects on your website URL - Try this: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.the22ndfloor.com . Replace the22ndfloor.com with the URL for your website. Leave this redirected URL in blog comments as well as forum signatures. This redirect will count a unique IP address once a day so clicking it multiple times won’t help.

# Post in Asian social networking websites or forums - Some webmasters have suggested that East Asian web users are big Alexa toolbar fans, judging by the presence of several Asia-based websites and forums in the Alexa Top 500. I suggest trying this only if you have the time or capacity to do so.

# Get Dugg or Stumbled - This usually brings massive numbers of visitors to your website or blog and the sheer amount will have a positive impact on your Alexa Rank. Naturally, you’ll need to develop link worthy material.

# Create an Alexa category - on your blog and use it to include any articles or news about Alexa. This acts as an easily accessible resource for webmasters or casual search visitors while helping you rank in the search engines.

Getting Started.
Want to help? Install the Alexa Toolbar, and tell your friends. The more people use Alexa, the more useful it will be.

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