There are differing opinions regarding the use and importance of Alexa ranking. Some say that it’s useless, others say it is important.
There are many pros and cons.
Back in February when my blog was one year old my Alexa ranking was 52,753.
Today it is 41,997.
I like to monitor my ranking as it is an indication of the amount of traffic your site is getting.
So, for those who still consider Alexa, here are some helpful articles from big and small bloggers alike who share their ideas about Alexa rankings and how to increase it.
How to Boost Your Alexa Ranking (by a million places!) in two months and one day by Kelly Diels
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2010/01/14/how-to-boost-your-alexa-ranking/
How to Boost Your Alexa Ranking in One Easy Step by Yaro Starak
http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/550/how-to-boost-your-alexa-ranking-in-one-easy-step/
20 Quick Ways to Increase Your Alexa Ranking by Dosh Dosh
http://www.doshdosh.com/20-quick-ways-to-increase-your-alexa-rank/
8 Ways to Increase Alexa Rank by Quick Online Tips
http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2010/02/increase-alexa-rank/
Alexa Tries to prove they are not worthless by John Chow
http://www.johnchow.com/alexa-tries-to-prove-they-are-not-worthless/
How to Increase Alexa Ranking by Howtobringtraffic.com
http://www.howtobringtraffic.com/how-to-increase-alexa-ranking.html
Another Simple Way to Increase Alexa Ranking of your website by BlogHash
http://www.bloghash.com/2007/11/another-simple-way-to-increase-alexa-ranking-of-your-website/
Alexa Wants Blogger’s attention again: Gives back inflated rankings by Andy Beal
What is your view?
Do you monitor your Alexa Ranking?
Do you think it’s not worth following?
Please share your views in the comments below.
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Useful list Andrew. I do think Alexa is important but I am not sure whether I would focus that much on increasing my rank. I think if you focus on building relationships and creating content then your alexa rank will naturally increase.
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Julius
That is true – relationships are key.
Just thought some people would like to try – I added the Alexa Ranking ‘box’ on my site as per Yaro’s suggestion just to see if it does make any difference.
Andrew
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As I understand it, Alexa rank comes only from users of the Alexa toolbar. It can be a good indicator of traffic, but I have several blogs. One gets five times as much traffic as the next highest-traffic blog, yet has a similar Alexa rank.
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That’s right John – as I say it is only an indication. Irrespective of the actual number, as long at the ranking steadily decreases then you know you are getting more Alexa traffic.
Andrew
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Great list Andrew. To get better Alex ranking we should consider so many tips. According to “problogger.net” unique stuff is necessary also it will be most necessary that your site should be appeared in various search engines with better position.
Then your site will able to gain better Alexa Ranking
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Chris,
A lot of it is comment sense – keep adding quality unique content and you’ll get traffic. But some people want to spped things up!
Andrew
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Sometimes it’s really complicated for us to improve the Alexa Ranking as it counts only people who installed the Alexa toolbar, sometimes our blog traffic is huge, but the Alexa ranking is remained the same. What we can do is just driving more traffic to the site, and just let the Alexa ranking grows itself.
I’ve tried several tips to improve my Alexa Ranking, it improved until 40k+ and it drops to 50k+ right now, but honestly my blog traffic drops a bit due to less updating as I’m busy with my examination right now.
Anyway, good sharing Andrew with all the useful link!
Regards,
Lee
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Lee,
You are right, Alexa ranking is not that important – it’s just one of the many stats that are available.
Andrew
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Great tips thanks so much Andrew. I haven’t really looked much into Alexa Rankings…I know it is a good indicator and all. Just focused more on Google Analytics, traffic sources, etc. What is the biggest thing you get out of Alexa? Congrats on moving up to PR4 in the last update by the way!
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Keith
The only thing I get from Alexa is the indication that ‘traffic’ is going in the right direction.
Thanks for the ‘thanks’ re: PR4.
Andrew
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This should be very helpful. I’m getting more into stat checking this year. I’m told my Alexa ranking is pretty good for a new blog. lol
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Dennis,
Just don’t spend too much time on it!
Andrew
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Do Alexa rankings really have an impact on rankings? if so, Is it really big? I was just wondering how important of a factor it is.
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Tom,
It’s just another way to monitor the ‘success’ of your site.
Andrew
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Thanks for gathering all of these resources together. I don’t think Alexa is that important but I think that the better our rank is, the less important we think it is
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KIm,
Nice words – true words!
Andrew
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I’ve never had that problem before. lol
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I have tried many ways to improve my Alexa ranking. However, i’m not doing well of it. I think the traffic is the key factor of the alexa ranking. In my opinion, i will focus on how to drive the traffic with quality content. Thanks for sharing Andrew!
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You are welcome.
Have you tried all the ways in the blog posts listed?
Andrew
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Nice, Andrew!
I have been working on lowering my Alexa rank with the assistance of some of the tools you mention in the backlinks post.
Ultimately, I’m working on my google rank… but Alexa gives me something easier to feel good about as I walk the long road to page 1 in google.
I’m curious… do you do anything to ping or update when you use backlink tools so that you get the ‘credit’ for them immediately?
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Ben,
I do a few things. Based upon my blog post: http://www.webuildyourblog.com/2121/build-backlinks-11-methods/
After my comment has been approved on a blog site, I always tweet and social bookmark the blog post. I don’t get any real benefit other than someone might see my comment and visit my site.
Re: Article Directories. Again, you can tweet and social bookmark whenever you add an article to an article directory.
I also add my article directory accounts RSS feeds to the RSS directories. That way they get a link back as well.
Same thing with HubPages – get then tweeted and social bookmarker – get a few blogger friends to help out as well.
Does that help?
Andrew
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Absolutely!
Do you do anything like this with Angela’s Backlinks?
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Ben,
I don’t! I just create the backlinks and that’s it. Perhaps, I should. I’ll ask Angela her thoughts!
Andrew
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All great suggestions. Another method of improving Alexa rank is to write about the topics that people are searching Alexa for. If you have the Alexa toolbar installed then you will see current trends (similar to Google trends) if any of these fit your niche, write about them asap so that you can attract Alexa toolbar users to your site.
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Sarah,
Great tip – thanks for sharing.
Andrew
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Over the past couple of weeks my Alexa rank has started to slide a bit, which is weird because the amount of visitors and page views I have been getting has increased and my bounce rate has also improved. The only change I made was deleting the commentluv widget, which I have now reinstalled.
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William,
The Alexa rank is only a guide. It only improves if your visitors have the Alexa toolbar installed.
So you may have more visitors and an improve bounce rate – but they may not have the Alexa toolbar installed.
Andrew
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I think it is definitely worth knowing what your Alexa ranking is because whilst it might not be completely accurate in absolute terms, if you keep an eye on it you can tell what the trend is with your website, which after all is even more important. You can also get whole heaps of information such as the demographics of your visitors which again can be very useful. So overall I think it is an excellent resource.
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Neil,
It is worth knowing but not in isolation…as you say. Use it but also gather other stats as well.
Andrew
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Thank You!! I am new to this blogging, ranking etc. but eager to learn. I have moved from 9 million + up to 3.2 million and I am anxious and appreciative of any and all the help I can find in breaking the one million mark. I will implement these strategies on my blog today!!
gary
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Great, Gary.
Using some of these techniques will get you well below the 1m mark…pretty fast.
Let us know how you get on.
Andrew
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Im doing fine with my Alexa ranking ill be in the top 500,000 by tomoro the best advice for anyone struggeling make sure you have the alexa widget installed on your web site or blog this really helps then also im giving my slef a pat on the back but there is still loads to do remember as well to get loads of visitors you need good matireal
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kevin,
Adding the alexa widget does improve your ranking.
I decided to remove the widget from here as it was slowing down the load speed of the blog.
Andrew
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My blog’s Alexa rank was affected when I removed the Alexa Sparky extension for Firefox. I did it because I installed another extension that included a PR checker. I didn’t know that it would make my rankings suffer. I’ve reinstalled the Alexa Sparky plugin and I hope that my Alexa ranking would go “down” again.
I guess the visitors of the website are who improve the page rank !! we can’t assume that we can get it better because the visitor must install the Alexa toolbar.
In fact, Alexa wants to count the high quality visitor, as what they see is that people who install there toolbar are the quality ones.
Great Post About Alexa, thanks for it.
Btw, nice blog. Enjoyed reading your posts. I’m adding you to my blogroll if you don’t mind.

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I think nowadays having good Alexa rank doesn’t matter at all. Moreover Alexa gathers traffic from users who have installed Alexa tool bar. Many people may not have installed Alexa toolbar. Having good Alexa rank may not mean that the site is having good traffic.
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Nik,
Alexa ranking is just one indication. I agree you should also be using other stats as well.
Andrew
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Alexa ranking is by all means worth following. It helps both the site owner and advertisers view your website’s potential, in terms of marketing. The higher your site’s ranking, the higher the bid may be to buy advertising space from your site.
I have found the article written by Yaro Starak to be the most helpful one. His techniques has helped me to increase my alexa rankings.
Hi Andrew,
thanks for sharing these valuable resources.
Indeed Alexa ranking is useful if you want to make money online selling text links or ads :
many companies value your site depending on your Alexa rank.
More traffic=higher Alexa rank…
it seems so easy…!
Best wishes

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