Comments on: How I improved my Alexa rank

By: David Airey

David Airey — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:50:46 +0000

Hi Kayla,

You’re right not to pay much attention. Focus on your blog content, attracting visitors with your useful / insightful articles (and therefore an improved Alexa rank). Good luck.

By: Kayla

Kayla — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:13:20 +0000

Thanks for the great tip. I just downloaded the toolbar and use it, but I haven’t blogged about it or influenced my readers to download it in anyway. I’ve already noticed a huge drop in my Alexa ranking as well.

It sometimes makes me lose confidence in the validity of the Alexa rankings, but at least its something. A website with an 11 million Alexa ranking is obviously less popular than a 2 million ranking. However, the more I read about it the less I care of the difference between a 999,999 ranking and a 99,999 one.

By: Fred Campbell

Fred Campbell — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:56:01 +0000

That re-direct trick is on all the forums, but I think Alexa has shut it down.

A friend of mine has a really high Alexa rank, I have analyzed his site and the only thing I can pin down is that he has posted his site on over 100 web design galleries – these people will most probably have the toolbar installed.

By: Acuity Designs, London

Acuity Designs, London — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:25:58 +0000

Installing the toolbar definently helps, the best wau Ive found though is just good old traffic, posting regularly in a blog and using SBS has increased my rank monumentally over the past two months

By: John Seo

John Seo — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:59:19 +0000

I’ve installed the alexa toolbar on all my computers, I hope it helps.

By: Sven

Sven — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:37:24 +0000

Hi,

I currently testing on how to improve an Alexa Rank. Here is something funny. When I was in Brazil, my laptop caused a certain movement for the national alexa rank of brazil, yet when i went to Poland last week and installed Alexa on two Linux computers in my hostel and put my page as the Firefox’s second tab start page (to not bother anyone with it) NOTHING happened. I did not see an increase in the Alexa rank, much less see any rank for Poland. I have been to Poland from the 22-28th of November. It should have taken effect already. Any ideas on what could be the reason for both SPARKY (Firefox 2) and SearchStatus (Firefox 1.5) not to work?

Only thing I can think of is that I was not administrator of the LINUX PC. Yet I had no trouble installing the FF-Addon.

Actually I have no good explanation. Maybe anyone here made similar experiences?

By: David Airey :: Graphic Designer

David Airey :: Graphic Designer — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:53:17 +0000

Hi Nick,

I agree, the search status extension is very handy for getting a quick glimpse of a website’s age / authority.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:04:53 +0000

That little tool is quite handy.

Especially when trying to check the quality of all the sites we are linking out to for our clients websites.

Knowing the value of a page without having to do the searching through the listing myself is a great timesaver.

By: David Airey :: Graphic Designer

David Airey :: Graphic Designer — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:30:29 +0000

Thanks Eric.

You’ll see the biggest leaps in rank at the start. It’s really not difficult to get into the top 1M at least, and I notice you’re into the 3M numbers already.

Good of you to stop by.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:29:46 +0000

I just started a blog i hope to moneytize in the future.
So by reading tips like this I can improve my rankings as well.

I just installed the toolbar, told my friends about it and I’ve seen my Alexa rank, come from 8million to 4 million in 1,5 weeks :-)

Going to promote this a bit further with some other friends and myebe friends, friends.

If traffic stagnates, I’ll install the widget then and keep you posted if it realy makes a difference.

Also rank on Alexa and Technorati is considered valuable to most publisher programs, so needed if you want to moneytize

Great post!