How To Increase Your Alexa Ranking
drt on May 25 2008 at 12:05 am | Filed under: Miscellaneous, blogging
When I typed in ‘How to increase your alexa rank for a Google search, I got so many references telling me to download then install the alexa-toolbar and I would see a tremendous increase in my A-Ranking (borrowed from Marcus Hochstadt) number. Some of them got it overnight, but too bad, that didn’t happen to me.
Here are the images of my A-ranking three days after installing the widget:
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Indeed, the number increased in the sense that it is getting bigger. 
However, those weren’t the numbers we would like to see. An increase in rank means we are going to see a smaller number. One possible answer to this puzzle I found in the comment section of AskaX site that I pasted below:
@Preeti: alexa recently change the way they calculate the traffic, what you can do now is how to increase your own traffic, and it will eventually increase your rank.
This reminded me to the post of my cyber friend Doug Karr on firing his Technorati and other sidebar widgets at the end of last year. Time has changed I think. Most of these postings were from one year or so ago like this one at JohnTP’s site.
In the past two months, this site was listed at the top of rsshugger Top 100 site. I still need to work on Stumbleupon and other site to increase my traffic. Do you have any advice?
Popularity: 73% [?]
My recommendation would be to find some blogs that promote comments and remove the ‘nofollow’ link. Many times these blogs promote that they ‘dofollow’. Add some great commentary to their posts and you’ll also be promoting your own site’s ranking.
Thanks, Doug. This was something that I have overlooked. I just went to search on how to install the ‘No NOFOLLOW’ and guess what? I got to your posting on Hacking WordPress: Removing No Follow From the Source. I then followed the instructions, made the changes on the comment-template.php and default-filters.php and here I’m. Hopefully No Nofollow works now, Doug? However, I just wonder, how do we test that?
Hey there… I came across your web site from rsshugger and I think there is a lot of nice reads… the easiest way to increase your alexa rankings is to have people using the alexa toolbar to visit your page… and the best way to do that is to be active at a webmaster forum because most webmasters use the toolbar and when they visit your site it will help for your ranks.
Interesting question, thanks for raising it. Might provoke some positive thought……..
Forgot to put a close quotation mark to the link to Doug’s great posting link in the comment above. It has been corrected. If you find any link that is broken, please put a note here to let me know. Thanks.
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