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7 Strategies Guaranteed To Increase Your Alexa Ranking
fter spending two years Here’s what you need to know. The
building my own website, I basis for many of these
was very disappointed that techniques is the fact that your
my Alexa ranking was still higher Alexa ranking is based reach and
than one million. Alexa ranks page views. However it only
each website based on the number counts those who visit your site
of visitors it receives. The top and have already downloaded the
ranked website, Yahoo! has an Alexa toolbar. Anyone can
Alexa rating of 1 or 2. Less download the toolbar for free
popular sites could be ranked up which is automatically added to
to 5,000,000. your browser and tracks the sites
you’re visiting. Increasing
In order to improve my Alexa visits from those who do not have
rating, I spent about three weeks the Alexa toolbar installed will
combing the web to find tips, not help your Alexa ranking.
secrets, and proven strategies
for increasing my Alexa ranking. I’ve summarized the 7 strategies
Unfortunately, many of the sites that I’ve discovered and applied
offering advice didn’t even have to my own website to increase my
a high ranking themselves. Alexa ranking. Apply these
Finally I discovered a number of strategies to your own website
sites ranked within the top and see your ranking climb
100,000 that were all applying towards the top.
the same “Alexa techniques” to
improve their ranking. I’ve begun 1.Download the Alexa toolbar and
implementing a number of these use it every day to visit your
techniques and have improved my own website. Alexa even gives you
Alexa ranking by 250,000 spots in the ability to co-brand the
just one week. toolbar with your own logo and
give it away. You can download
the toolbar here: http://www.alexa.com/data/details
http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/ /?url=marketingscoop.com
associatetoolbar.html Again, just replace the name of
my website (marketingscoop) with
2.Use Alexa redirection whenever yours. By clicking on the URL,
you can. No matter when or where visitors will be able to reach
you provide a link to your your detailed rating page and
website, be sure to use the write a review using the review
equivalent Alexa redirect URL. link located on the left hand
For example, when providing a side of the page.
link to my website, I use
http://redirect.alexa.com/redirec 4.Write your own site reviews on
t?marketingscoop.com. If you copy the top 100 rated Alexa sites and
this URL into your browser, it include your redirect URL. The
will take you to top 500 domains, according to
MarketingScoop.com. To use this Alexa can be found at
technique, simply replace the http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_
name of my website 500 When you write a review, be
(marketingscoop) with yours. sure to use the redirection URL
we discussed in number 2 above
3.Encourage your website visitors specifically for your website
to add their positive ((http://redirect.alexa.com/redir
testimonials on Alexa’s detailed ect?marketingscoop.com).
listings page for your website.
This can be done by placing a 5.Download the Alexa ranking
link to the appropriate Alexa button, traffic history graph,
page on your website and asking info links, and other traffic
visitors to “Click here to rate counters onto the page of your
this website”. You can find your website that receives the most
detailed Alexa page here: traffic. For example, at the
bottom of my home page free listing in DMOZ. This is the
(http://www.marketingscoop.com), largest human edited directory on
I’ve added the Alexa ranking box. the web and is co-branded among
You can do the same for your own hundreds of thousands of sites.
site by visiting Be patient though, it often takes
http://www.alexa.com/site/site_st up to 5 months before you see
ats/signup You’ll notice that I your website listed after
haven’t added the traffic history submission. Even though it takes
graph. This is because it longer than it should, you have
wouldn’t look appropriate on my little say in the matter because
home page and because Alexa is it’s so widely used across the
only providing detailed history Internet.
on the top 100,000 sites. So if
you’re not in the top 100,000, These simple Alexa strategies are
site stats would not be easy to implement and will make a
available. huge difference in your Alexa
ranking. Ultimately you want
6.Take an inexpensive ad out on visitors to do more than visit
the ExactSeek search directory at your home page, you want them to
http://exactseek.com/?marketingsc interact with your site. Be sure
oop.com. Search engine results to optimize your home page for
are directly correlated with SEO purposes, ease of use, and
Alexa rankings. You’ll notice interaction. Creating a positive
that if a website is highly user experience will get visitors
ranked on ExactSeek, chances are to return again and again.
that it will be highly ranked on
Alexa.
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About the Author:
Michael Fleischner is the founder and President of http://MarketingScoop.com. With more than 12 years of marketing experience, he has appeared on major media including the TODAY Show, Bloomberg Radio, and more. Visit http://www.marketingscoop.com for more free marketing articles, information, and resources.
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