How To Improve Your Alexa Ranking

Many people have asked me how I’ve been able to improve my Alexa from 2,000,000 to 34,000 in about four months. I’d like to share with you 4 ways to improve your Alexa ranking.

Alexa Rank is your site’s traffic ranking according to Alexa. It’s very important, especially if you are selling ad spaces on your website. It can provide you various monetary benefits as well because advertisers look for this rank to decide the cost of advertisements to be placed on your website or blog.

What is Alexa Rank?

Alexa’s definition of the Alexa Traffic Rank:

The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis.

The main Alexa traffic rank is based on the geometric mean of these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users)

Why would you want to improve your Alexa rank?

If you are planning to monetize your blog at some point or already have, some advertising networks like Review Me, Text Link Ads and others will decide how much the link they are sending to your site is worth based on your Alexa Ranking. If you depend on link or site selling as a form of monetization you’ll definitely want to increase your Alexa rank, because it’ll increase your bargaining power when it comes to pricing. It also helps with selling direct advertising space, Buysellads and Advertisespace.

How To Improve Your Alexa Ranking?

Are you trying to improve your Alexa traffic rank but are not sure of the best way to do this? Then you need to be aware of the many ways that you can use to help you easily achieve a higher traffic rank with Alexa.

1. Content

Write high-quality content that appeals to your blog visitors. Promote your content on social bookmarking sites, forums and on Twitter.

Great link-worthy content will leads to an natural increase in site traffic and is an excellent way to passively increase your Alexa rank.

Great content = more visitors = Better Alexa rank.

2. Guest Posting

This is a easiest and effective traffic generating method that should be used as often as you can get accepted to provide a guest post because the traffic potential is absolutely huge.

3. Blog Commenting

Blog commenting, one of the easiest and most easiest way to get targeted traffic (more traffic = better alexa rank). If people can see you being so active and commenting everywhere they end up, they will be more inclined to comment on yours, because you become memorable.  Take the time to leave a useful comment often enough, don’t just write “great post” or “thanks”.  Don’t SPAM or self-promote when leaving blog comments.

4. Forum Posting

Write good Articles and post your blog link as a source. It will catch the eyes of people. This strategy can really help your traffic explode because if someone from a related forum visits your blog and likes what they see, they will send people visiting their forum to your blog, thus help you to improve your alexa ranking.

My Current Ranking

Here are my current Alexa Rankings for my blog (remember, this thing’s been up for only 5 months):

My current Alexa Traffic rank: 33,917

Over To You

All the above factors contributed effectively to improve my blog ranking and will work for any type of content in any niche, in case you find something to disagree with in this post or have an opinion on this topic, please do share it with us below. If you find this blog useful please do Subscribe and Follow me on Twitter.

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Article by Devesh

I’m Dev aka Devesh (Founder of Technshare) - a Junior in High School and a part time blogger from India. You can connect with me on Twitter.

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