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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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23 Comments
April 5th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Twitter: TheJohnSoares
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.
John Soares Intelligent Productivity For Freelance Writers´s last blog ..Screw SEO
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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
April 6th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Twitter: andrewrondeau
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
Andrew @ Blogging Guide´s last blog ..How to Get All the Free Traffic You Want
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April 5th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Twitter: AndBreak
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.
Julius Kuhn-Regnier´s last blog ..How to Become More Productive
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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
April 6th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Twitter: andrewrondeau
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
Andrew @ Blogging Guide´s last blog ..How to Get All the Free Traffic You Want
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April 6th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Twitter: http://www.bloggingwithchris.com/
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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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
April 6th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Twitter: andrewrondeau
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
Andrew @ Blogging Guide´s last blog ..How to Get All the Free Traffic You Want
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April 6th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Twitter: whatisthebible
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!
Keith Andrew´s last blog ..Peter’s Shadow Healed The Sick
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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
April 7th, 2010 at 10:00 am
Twitter: andrewrondeau
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
Andrew @ Blogging Guide´s last blog ..How to Get All the Free Traffic You Want
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April 6th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Twitter: myblog2day
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
Lee Ka Hoong@Make Money Online´s last blog ..Ranking Authority Sites The Google Way
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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
April 7th, 2010 at 10:01 am
Twitter: andrewrondeau
Lee,
You are right, Alexa ranking is not that important – it’s just one of the many stats that are available.
Andrew
Andrew @ Blogging Guide´s last blog ..How to Get All the Free Traffic You Want
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April 6th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Twitter: DennisEdell
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
Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing´s last blog ..Will DEDC Comments Remain Do-Follow? It’s Up To YOU!
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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
April 7th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Twitter: andrewrondeau
Dennis,
Just don’t spend too much time on it!
Andrew
Andrew @ Blogging Guide´s last blog ..How to Get All the Free Traffic You Want
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April 7th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
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
Kim´s last blog ..Travelogue
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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
April 9th, 2010 at 9:16 am
Twitter: andrewrondeau
KIm,
Nice words – true words!
Andrew
Andrew @ Blogging Guide´s last blog ..Master This Technique and Get More Blog Readers
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April 7th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Twitter: DennisEdell
I’ve never had that problem before. lol
Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing´s last blog ..Will DEDC Comments Remain Do-Follow? It’s Up To YOU!
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April 8th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Twitter: cks1988
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!
Kok Siong @ Cancer Research´s last blog ..Tamoxifen – Breast Cancer Treatment
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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
April 9th, 2010 at 9:17 am
Twitter: andrewrondeau
You are welcome.
Have you tried all the ways in the blog posts listed?
Andrew
Andrew @ Blogging Guide´s last blog ..Master This Technique and Get More Blog Readers
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April 10th, 2010 at 4:26 am
Twitter: benjaminlangley
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?
keep smiling,
Ben
Benjamin@Daily Meditation´s last blog ..Daily Meditation – Smiling Eyes (4-9-10)
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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
April 12th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Twitter: andrewrondeau
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
Andrew @ Blogging Guide´s last blog ..Is Mastering Public Speaking Good for Bloggers?
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Benjamin from Daily Meditation Reply:
April 13th, 2010 at 4:49 am
Twitter: benjaminlangley
Absolutely!
Do you do anything like this with Angela’s Backlinks?
Benjamin@Daily Meditation´s last blog ..Daily Meditation – Smiling Eyes (4-9-10)
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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
April 13th, 2010 at 9:16 am
Twitter: andrewrondeau
Ben,
I don’t! I just create the backlinks and that’s it. Perhaps, I should. I’ll ask Angela her thoughts!
Andrew
Andrew @ Blogging Guide´s last blog ..Is Mastering Public Speaking Good for Bloggers?
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August 11th, 2010 at 8:32 am
Twitter: SEOpod
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.
Sarah from Web search optimization´s last blog ..Alexa rank explained
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Andrew from Blogging Guide Reply:
August 12th, 2010 at 9:20 am
Twitter: andrewrondeau
Sarah,
Great tip – thanks for sharing.
Andrew
Andrew @ Blogging Guide´s last blog ..Do NOT Buy Rapid Video Blogging Course
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