If I’m going to advertise in a blog, other than page visits and views, I will check their 3 ranks. They are PageRank, Technorati Rank and Alexa Rank. Now in this article I’ll share some tips to improve the Alexa rank of your blog. When I started HB, it’s Alexa rank was around 700k and now it is around 70k. Credits go to you people only. Thank You!
Bringing my blog’s Alexa rank below 100k was one of my site goals for 2009.
What’s the use of Alexa Rank?
Webmasters, advertisers and ad networks use your blog’s Alexa rank to determine the worth of a link on your website. Advertisers and other people approach you after seeing your blog’s Alexa rank. Fortunately, I experienced these things. Even BuySellAds (BSA) approves only if you have a good Alexa rank.
Tips for improving your blog’s Alexa rank :
#1 – Use Toolbar : Install Alexa Toolbar. Alexa currently has toolbar for IE and Firefox only, hard luck for Chrome and Opera users. Now set your blog as homepage in both the browsers. You can do this in your relatives and friends house or even in browsing centers.
#2 – Use Widget : Many blog owners found this tip useful. Placing Alexa Rank Widget in your blog helps a lot. But it is worth trying.
#3 – Consistency : Alexa rank automatically improves if you update your blog frequently with good contents. Update your blog daily for a better Alexa rank.
#4 – Write About Alexa : Many bloggers love to learn the tips for improving Alexa rank. They’ll link to you and send you targeted traffic. It is better to keep ‘Alexa’ as a category or a tag.
#5 – Reviews And Ratings : Some bloggers claim this tip has something to do with Alexa rank. Try to increase reviews and ratings for your Alexa website profile. You are most welcome to write one for HB.
#6 – Update Info : Update your listing data and blog’s site info using their Self-service tools. It gives a professional touch to it.
#7 – Claim The Blog : Create an Alexa account or use your existing Facebook account and claim your blog. You can verify by uploading a text file or using a meta tag code.
Though many people don’t believe in Alexa rankings, it is still ruling the blogosphere.
If you got any Alexa tips to add please share/comment about it! 
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very nice tips dude
Glad you liked these tips Muhammad Qasim !
Alexa Rank is totally irrelevant but yes, it does bring Blogger’s attention.
I can give you 100 Reasons why Alexa is Irrelevant.
e.g.2 if your blog had great traffic 4 months back, and now it’s not, you will have no credit of that.
I wrote blog on this that took 1 year of Research: http://www.taranfx.com/blog/alexa-rank-irrelevant-how-alexa-works
Any kinds of comments are welcome. Let’s dig-out alexa’s reality!
Well Taranfx, it is entirely based on Alexa’s point of view.
I too agree, each visit counts only if Alexa toolbar is installed.
And that was a nice article..thanks for sharing here !
You love it or hate it Alexa still rules the blogworld !
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You know wat bro ? i need to follow you,coz the last time i was here your ranking was not so good ,but now you are rocking.
I’ll adhere to what you said above.
Thanks dude.. I owe a lot to readers and commentators like you !
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hmm…I too agree with you, Alexa ranking is day by day becoming a very important stats that measures the success of any website. Hope these Alexa people also create a toolbar for Chrome. May be I would be benefited more. Anyways, this is a good post, thanks for sharing.
Yeah.. hope Google and Alexa makes a discussion about it !
And Internet Techies has got excellent Alexa rank..and the full credits goes to Sanjeev and you ! Kudos …
Thanks for the tips. Currently I have a good alexa rank but not as good as comparable to you. I think I must write an article on Alexa, according to one of the tips mentioned here
Glad you liked this article John !
And Alexa rank is encouraging me to blog more !
Hey pradeep thanks for these tips, certainly alexa rank is important. I mean I personally get impressed with the sites who have good alexa rank, Point 2 is So True
Same here Amar.. my eyes will roll when I see a blog with good Alexa Rank..
Yup, I too experienced 2nd Tip a bit !
These tips are great, Alexa rank is the first way of checking stats of any website.
It boosts the blog’s development in short time !
thanks for the post and iam ready for writing review @ the same time i need too for my new blog
anyone there…. 
Ha ha .. I’m ready to write buddy… will do that within a week ! Cheers !
I didn’t know Alexa rank was this important. Thanks!
Well.. it is a part !
But helps you with direct advertisers ! …
Good ones there Pradeep. I follow these religiously all the while and my Alexa rank has increased tremendously.
Glad to know that Suneel !
All the best for its further improvement !
I not doing most of them
This is a eye opener for me
Don’t worry Sham.. nothing is too late.. especially for this.. cheers !
the best trick i think which works is to include the alexa widget on your website.i have seen lots of improvement in the ranking of my website
Exactly Zeesu.. Alexa Widget helps a lot!
What ?! The alexa ranking is not determined by the traffic of the blog/website ?
Hey..
It entirely depends on Traffic! These tips are just for making it more better…
I like it…..I will tryt those tips to increase Alexa……..
Glad you found these tips useful Nithin !
Welcome to HB !
i do not think writing about ALEXA is a good option…that means we are bribing ALEXA to rank us better and this is not fair
Well.. Tushar .. I didn’t mean like that..
By writing about Alexa, we are encouraging our readers to use Alexa Toolbar and Widget.. thus, in one way it improves our blog’s rank too!
Hi Pradeep,
Nice tips.But I believe only on frequency of the blog’s update.I update my blog daily and achieved the wonderful Alexa ranking.
Yeah Surrender.. I too agree with you.. consistency is important..
And I envy your Alexa Rank !
Thanks for great tip . I was not aware of claiming blog on facebook. Really useful post.
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Thanks Ruchi !
Many people are not aware of it I guess..
Check regularly, your Alexa, rank, it will help to improve it.
Exactly..
Use alexa toolbar in your browser also help to improve your Alexa rank.
Yup.. thumb rule of Alexa!
what’s the use of alexa rank.do it increase the ctr of adsense ads
It has nothing to do with Adsense buddy …
It is just another Rank.. like Pagerank, Technorati rank, compete rank and so on..
Nice tips. But, I have many blogs and for sure, I can’t set those blogs as homepage. But, other tips would be done and follow up. Thanks!
Fatin, take 2 blogs. Keep one as homepage in IE and another one in Firefox !
Do it in as many systems you have ! Cheers !
I have tried my best to update my blog a few times a week to improve my ranking, currently it’s below 100,000. I don’t use the toolbar although many say that I must, just don’t like having extra stuff on my laptop.
But Alexa toolbar could also be useful.. like avoiding phishing sites and so on ! Cheers !
In my experience StumbleUpon traffic always has a major positive effect on Alexa rank. So, try to get stumbled. That will really really help.
I think Digg also works for this!
Unique title and content always get stumbled !
The reason why StumbleUpon and Digg traffic improves Alexa ranks is the fact that many of their users are bloggers themselves and they use Alexa toolbar in their browsers. Therefore, as pointed out by Pradeep in this article, since more people with Alexa toolbar visit your site, your Alexa rank increases. Alexa rank is dependent mainly on the number of people using Alexa toolbar and then visiting a website; it does not depend on your total traffic. This is the reason why blogs that deal with topics meant for other bloggers get good rank in Alexa.
These tips are new to me. I thought it’s enough with Alexa toolbar. I will definitely follow what you’ve done.
Marlene, use Alexa Widget .. that will help a ton !
Well thanks for the tips
I need some help from you for my theme customization of my blog as i have chosen same theme only ???
Happy to help bro..contact me anytime… cheers !
I dont really think that it does really matter about claiming the blog or Updating everyday! I only depends on the content you write! If you write technical content you will get a good Alexa rank because people who know about Alexa mostly belong to the Geek category!
I agree with you Rohit! DI, Problogger and many blogs don’t care about Alexa, but still they get good Alexa Rank because of their content.
But, following some tips like this helps your blog to get updated or pinged easily by Alexa..!
Great tips, Alexa is so faulty though… it only works based on the toolbar…
Yeah.. Ben.. calculations are done by toolbar only .. it would have been nice.. if Google follows the same!
hi pradeep,
ya ur article is true,though i am getting traffic my rank is not improving,after ur advice its increasing
Glad it worked you for mate! Kudos..
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good post buddy, yes i agree with you
Thanks Mohan.. cheers!
yup daily posting has major effect on your alexa rank
Exactly Sushant.. Shout Me Loud is an excellent..
I want to ask something, does alexa toolbar slow the internet speed? I’m just afraid if i installed it on my firefox, my browsing experience become unwell.
Hello mytheory,
I don’t know exactly about the Alexa toolbar and its impact on the browsing experience.
But I have been using Alexa Sparky, which shows all the details of Alexa ranking of any website… So maybe u can try that. But it is possible that it may not help u to increase your alexa ranking.
What I would suggest u is that, u already have a decent PR and a good Alexa rank.. So don’t worry much about it. U can give the toolbar a try but if u feel that its making ur browser ‘unwell’, just remove it. looking at ur blog it doesn’t seem that u’ll have any probs… ur rank will keep on increasing consistently… I have noticed that myself.. though my rank is real bad but still, it changes in leaps and bounds..
I agree with Sapan..
And this toolbar won’t bother your browsing speed buddy… this is up to my experience of using it!
Hello Sapan, thanks for answering my question. Actually, i have installed alexa sparky on my firefox, and it doesn’t slow down my browsing speed. And thanks for you compliment about my blog ranking
A very useful tips but i do not consider alexa rank as the best one because for this you have to install the alexa toolbar. updating your blog day by day is the best way. But now it becomes a standard to show the alexa rank on blog because it produce a good influence on the visitors you received
I agree with you Vivek.. I don’t depend on Alexa much..
I prefer Technorati and Pagerank more than Alexa.. keen on improving’em..
I don’t think that u can totally neglect the Alexa rank… these days many of the ad networks see ur Alexa rank before approving your site for ads. Moreover, if u r thinking of going for direct ads, then also this rank will prove to be useful…
Though we know that it isn’t very important, but still a good number of the netizens feel that a site can be judged by its Alexa rank…
Just think, if u visit a site/blog and u see the Alexa rank something like 1324, how would u feel ? even if the content isn’t that gr8, u will feel that there must be something in this site as the Alexa rank is gr8 ..
what say ??
Ha ha.. I agree with you mate..!
What i say is experience is the only thing which helps in internet.
You should have experience with internet and alexa so you can understand it.
Hmm.. yeah.. in one way.. it will be easy for us to learn more about Alexa if we have more knowledge about the Internet..
Nice and clearly tips! But why Alexa is so easier to improve the rank why Google is harder. So should they judge a site by see Alexa rank?
Hmm.. that’s a legitimate question..
There is a difference between them… Alexa sees traffic and PR sees backlinks.. so… more traffic good Alexa Rank… more backlinks good PR!
Nice post, but I do not agree with you. Its the content of your blog which gets you visitor and return visitor which in turn brings you traffic and this helps your ranking.
Sandesh, I too agree with you. Only hard work pays, not tricks.
But these are some tips which makes your blog to be comfortable with Alexa.. cheers!
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nice tips.. i want to be in 1,00,000 club soon.. but that is for sheer satisfaction..
All the best for it Rajesh.. and like you said, it is for sheer satisfaction!
Good to you mate… but there’s something strange with this alexa rank, yesterday my blog have 10.847.453 alexa rank but too day I found it’s change to 4,065,909 what the… it’s jump
what do you think mate?
That means you and your blog getting popular dude..
I practice your tips, and then I found my site around 497 k today. Wow that’s great… thanks
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That’s really encouraging to my readers. Kudos to your blog and your efforts!
You have covered some really nice point. Alexa Rating is very much biased but still some advertisers prefer those ratings and these tips will definitely help bloggers increasing their Alexa rating.
Glad you liked these tips Sanjeev.. yes.. though it is biased.. people still prefer it!
Hi,
Thanks,specially i like this Articles (Tips for increasing your blog’s Alexa rank)
Thanks Satya.. glad you liked it!
7 Basic Tips For Improving Your Blog’s Alexa Rank…
If I’m going to advertise in a blog, other than page visits and views, I will check their 3 ranks. They are PageRank, Technorati Rank and Alexa Rank. Now in this article I’ll share some tips to improve the Alexa rank of your blog. When I started HB, it…
looks like your alexa rank has further improved a lot, its 49k now and you mentioned 70k in the post, great going, congrats,
i will follow your methods and see if mine improves, i had also setup my goal for 2009 to enter the 100k alexa rank, but its very unlikely to happen as 2009 has just a month to go, still trying hard,
Now it is around 47k!
Don’t worry Uttoran.. still there is time.. all the best for it!
HI Pradeep,
Adding the alexa widget to your blog is a great idea. I had done it and seen a lot of improvement in my rankings. But, Alexa rankings are becoming irrelevant nowadays
Yes, exactly Rajeel.. adding widget helps a ton.. !
And am waiting for someone to buy Alexa..
One more tip. I have had contests in my blog for the last two weeks and I have promoted it. On November 15 my ranking was 900,000+ and now its 362,706.
Yeah.. keeping contests and giveaways will increase’em indeed… glad you implemented it well..kudos..
Well that’s a very nice post. It surely help bloggers improving their Alexa Ranking!
Amazing as always
cool article. but i guess alexa uses their own algorithms for ranking and i guess your points are useful for it.
Nice information points. I will add a widget now.
i have already followed some of the tips above and it certainly improved my alexa ranking… from 26 million, its now 1.4 million.. not bad…
Very useful tips bro…. must try them right away!
Hi,
Good article. But I think something is missing there.
Some time back, I wrote an article on same topic.
Visit it here http://www.takeme2yourheart.com/2009/12/how-to-improve-alexa-rank-of-your.html and also waiting for your comment.
It would have been more nice if you mentioned “what was missing?” !
Man i’m worried. My rank 1 mnth ago was 7mil. This is whn i started blogin regular. Now its arnd 1.6million. Too less than 700k of urs when u startd. Ill wrk wid ur tips. Lets see aftr 1 mnth.
Thanks for the useful tips to increase alexa rank.
guest what i am getting good result its work now in my blog
its not good to hear that Alexa give some ranking boost by downloading their tool bar and placing their widget in side bar
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I need to implement it !! need a boost to ma rank
Another tips:-
Return visitor from Alexa toolbar will also increase ur Alexa ranks
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Great tips, I do most of these already, but I do need to claim my blog. Another way that works for me is to join webmaster forums and network with other members. Many people at these forums usually all have the Alexa toolbar installed.
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Thanks for the good tips you put up on here. Am in much need of more tips like this so feel free to mail some to me. Am developing a web directory and it seems like these tips will greatly help in promoting it out there in cyberspace and getting the traffic it deserves.
already done these..tips..
anyways thanks for the post man..!!
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I’m already doing most of these. Hoping to see our Alexa rank improving soon.
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From what I research for my blog Alexa ranking, when your website traffic gets higher in average 3 month, your Alexa also improve. Alexa ranking moves/update every single day.
When new blog and gets traffic 300-400 every month in 6 month, their Alexa ranking can reach 500,000 to 400,000. That’s not so bad for new blog. Am I right?
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LOL, yeah. The best way to improve Alexa rank, is to do what and all Alexa recommends (Toolbar, Widgets, etc) and of course, you can also try bribing Alexa!
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Its a wired and great journey for bloggers and developers. All you have to do is spend plenty of time on internet,blogging etc.. and you’ll come to know how Alexa works.
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Hi there,
My first time here. I have using Alexa to track my progress over the last few months. Thanks for your tips as there are a couple of things that I am not doing yet.
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wow what a response to the article and the response is overwhelming.. great
While Alexa is discounted by many, the bottom line is that their ranking is one of the factors that get considered by most analysts when evaluating the value of an online property, as they are pretty much seen as the most reliable indicator of traffic. Install the toolbar, and set your URL as your homepage, helps, and the more people you have doing this for you, the better. Ask the friends and family to assist, it works a charm.
those tips helped me a lot to increse my pagerank
thank you for the tips. will be helpful in increasing my new blogs PR and ALEXA rank
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Great tips! I like it and I want to try it to see if it works for my sites. But I know this will work, i have a great feelings about it! Thanks anyway..
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Actually, You are the reason for lowering my Alexa Rank! Pradeep…u simply rokkk!
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Thanks for those tips. Using Alexa toolbar is most effective.
my alexa ranks are improving too, thanks for the tips, will try to follow them. i still don’t have to alexa widget on the site, am actually waiting for the ranks to improve first
other wise it will look poor to dispaly alexa ranks in lakhs…
okay now i know!
hmmm so i have to update my site regularly?
i actually have more posts last month but my stat is continuously dropping down.
may i’ll juts follow the other option
thanks for the tips!
Im not sure why and how using the Alexa toolbar would improve your ranking. There would be no point to the ranking at all if that were the case.
well is alexa ranking important or not?
we all know that alexa ranking can easily be altered by some simple techniques and you can (although not become top 1000!) come to top 100k
but why shall we still consider or why is alexa still being considered?
the answer is, if some one even spoofed alexa to have higher alexa rank, it simply shows that they do care about their blog ranking, so this in turn means that they would definitely would have worked on other aspects of their blog too like quality posts and traffic
Yeah You are right.
But what do you get from that rank. Who bothers with a alexa rank. Any system that can be Jacked is in my honest opinion not worth your time and effort. The top SEOs all feel alexa is bull shit and I believe them totally.
Interesting post , I thought that, for example if you rank is 100.000 then you website is the 100.000th website on the net based on the visitors number
Alexa depends on many things, like site content should be unique and informative but many people knows alexa for traffic. You describe very well and things are really helpful for me.
harry
My Alexa ranking is not that good. This tips will be really helpful to me
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Great tips. Alexa is still relevant for blog owners. I think Alexa toolbar is a good try.
well.. If that’s all about increasing the Alexa Ranking. It is for sure that this ranking is useless until and unless it’s not genuine. Setting up your site as homepage, then installing toolbars on as many systems as possible.. this all seems to be something “biased”.
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I agree Puneet, but unfortunately, advertisers and ad networks depend on them. Example, BuySellAds and AdvertiseSpace.
I got tired of the widget so I just installed the meta tag code in my blog’s header so as to claim my site/blog.
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I found it really hard to understand how can setting up a Alexa Widget and writing for Alexa would improve your page ranking?
If its so I would start a blog exclusively for Alexa!! and Google too.
Your post is good but do tell me how can this help?
I would call it partial on Alexa side (if they do so, I mean if they improve your page rank if your write about them).
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I love your Question. But the answer is complicated! : |
Kunal, keeping Alexa Widget helps Alexa to calculate easily and writing about Alexa will also help your site to get into consideration for some reasons*. Maybe they’ll link to you and send you targeted traffic.
May be Sandeep. But I don’t think that Axela will follow this policies. If they do than Axela is not thrust worthy.
hope if your next post you write about your star marked “some reason*”.
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Well, I don’t really consider the Alexa Rank even before. But I guess I am wrong after I read your article. And I think I need to do some changes starting today.
Perhaps I’m wrong here…but I thought most webmasters knew Alexa was very inaccurate and not worth considering when estimating the value or traffic of a website? Its my understanding that its based on those that have the toolbar installed and has a significant margin of error in terms of estimating overall traffic. For instance, those that have the alexa bar installed would typically be more tech savvy, and more likely to visit tech related sites. This stuff skews the accuracy.
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