How To Improve Your Alexa Ranking

by Devesh on July 18, 2010 · 111 comments






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.

What you do to improve your alexa ranking?



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bb July 20, 2010 at 8:52 pm

I haven’t checked my Alexa in so long. I’ve been way to bust at my real day job. So far so good I seem to be slowly increasing over each year.

I also enjoy the alexa comments section. So many people have said great things about our blogging community.
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Christopher Masiello July 20, 2010 at 9:48 pm

Devesh,
First of all, I agree that the biggest factor is quality content. This will drive everything else. Nobody will go look at crap for long.
That being said, the next most important factor in your Alexa ranking going up is to actually install the Alexa toolbar in your browser. This will have a HUGE impact on your rank.
Each toolbar represents thousands of internet users. (Kinda like Neilson ratings in U.S. television.). Therefore, every time YOU visit your own site, it pads YOUR ratings.
I switched from FireFox which has the Alexa toolbar to Chrome which does not about 6 months back. My Alexa number has gone from 200,000 to 440,000 while my actual server stats have improved. Why? Well it’s simple, when I check my site a few times a day, they extrapolate that into thousands of hits/visits.
Test it yourself. Dump a few months of server stats into an Excel spreadsheet. Then, install the Alexa toolbar for three months. Check your stats again. I bet your Score jumps by your stats stay flat.

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Devesh July 21, 2010 at 5:15 pm

Hey Christopher,

Thanks for the awesome info man. I’m going to install alexa toolbar.

Thanks for the nice comment.

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mark July 21, 2010 at 12:45 am

Hey Dev,

Really nice job on improving your stats. I have not really done much guest posting & and I have never participated in any forum in a way that anyone would know about my blog. It appears that those are two areas that I need to get working on.

Thanks for the inspiration!

Have a great day :)
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Devesh July 21, 2010 at 5:17 pm

Hey Mark,

Guest posting and blog commenting are my favorite ways to get targeted traffic (better alexa rank).

Thanks for the nice comment. I really appreciate it.

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Kim July 21, 2010 at 1:06 am

Thanks for sharing this information with us, I’m still in the learning stages and need all the help I can get. Very impressive numbers on your Alexa ranking . I truly have a lot to learn.

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Devesh July 21, 2010 at 1:41 pm

You’re welcome kim.

Thanks for the comment.

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Tek3D July 21, 2010 at 4:03 am

They are very nice tips. I just wonder about the forum posting as many forums don’t allow users to post a link in their thread, how could we gain visitors from this?
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Devesh July 21, 2010 at 1:40 pm

Hey Tek3d.

I’m active on some big forums and getting lots of targeted traffic. If you follow the rules, you’ll be able to post a link :) .

I’m usually active on Warrior forums and digitalpoint.

Thanks for commenting.

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esoftload July 21, 2010 at 8:13 am

well these points are not only for increasing alexa ranking but also for google ranking….
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Hieu Martin from Blog Tips July 21, 2010 at 9:22 am

your alexa rank is high than mysite , thanks for the tips
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Devesh July 21, 2010 at 1:38 pm

lol.. :D

Thank for commenting.

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Bidet July 21, 2010 at 9:30 am

These are great tips for increasing your alexa ranking. Its all about traffic with people who have the alexa tool bar or if you want to increase it you can install the alexa widget on your site. This way anyone who visits your site will be included in the rankings.

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Devesh July 21, 2010 at 1:37 pm

That’s exactly right bidet.

Thanks for commenting.

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Kok Siong from Cancer Research July 22, 2010 at 3:47 pm

Impressive Dev! You have just spent around 5 months to reach that level. Yes, i think the blog commenting is effective to help in alexa ranking. Thanks for your sharing!
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Jillian July 24, 2010 at 7:33 am

Very cool Dev! Quite impressive for such as short time, as I’m sure you know.

I haven’t been too worried about Alexa ranking till recently, but will definitely keep these tips in mind for improving my ranking. Thanks!
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Vector Graphics July 24, 2010 at 10:43 am

To get such a high rank in five months is really a big deal but hard work and dedication always pays off well.
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Hyder July 24, 2010 at 12:36 pm

Thanks for this wonderful article dude, and hope you will rank much higher soon :-)

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Bimal Roy July 25, 2010 at 4:08 am

My alexa rank is increasing very slowly now. Thanks for the tips bro.
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Richard Chidike | Motivatory July 25, 2010 at 11:45 pm

The points you have listed are very correct. Yes blog commenting can really improve your ranking but for me I think guest posting works more wonders.

Though one need to be an excellent writer to have his/her post published on big blogs with huge traffic level.
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Joshua Dorkin July 26, 2010 at 6:52 pm

Devesh –
As you said, there’s nothing overly complicated about it. Be consistent, be active, be visible, and write great content, and the people will come.

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How to boost alexa ranking July 27, 2010 at 4:02 pm

Thanks for sharing the valuable information. These days, there are some paid services available on the internet who increase your website’s ranking and cost you some $$$

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Siddharth August 19, 2010 at 2:21 pm

Wonderful stats for TechnShare .. i have to work on forum posting from now on :)
Thanks for the share

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VISHAL August 27, 2010 at 7:24 am

Great tips….

Thanks a lot
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Abhishek-seekersfind.com September 4, 2010 at 4:21 pm

Hi
This is awesome way to increase can you tell me how to increase site linking

Thanks For sharing
-Abhishek

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Devesh September 4, 2010 at 4:40 pm

Abhishek,

Check out this Post – http://www.technshare.com/20-ways-to-build-backlinks/

It will surely help you to build your blog backlinks.

Though my favorite ways to build backlinks are Guest Posting and using Web 2.0 Sites (like Squidoo,HubPages etc).

I hop this helps you. If you need any help, you know how to reach me! Don’t hesitate.

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hi 5 December 26, 2010 at 2:46 pm

does embedding alexa widget help to improve ranking?
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Blogtipss January 31, 2011 at 11:35 am

I I sincerely enjoyed Alexa tip list. You helped me alot.
P.S. It looks like you have placed a lot of effort into your blog and I need more of these on the net these days. I do not really have a large amount to say in reply, I only wanted to sign up to say great work.

Thanks again
Jerry

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Rohit January 31, 2011 at 4:26 pm

My Alexa rank is increasing very slowly now. Thanks for the nice tips bro.
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Betting February 21, 2011 at 11:07 am

Is it useful having the Alexa tool bar installed ?
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William King from Wholesale Suppliers Portal January 20, 2012 at 12:25 am

I do not think so that installing alexa tool bar can increase or decrease your alexa rank. I don’t see any logic behind it.

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TheShadow May 19, 2011 at 6:55 am

Thanks for these tips.you have explained it in detail .
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DJ Trinity June 23, 2011 at 9:14 am

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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Real Estate Phils. August 4, 2011 at 2:55 am

For a long time now, our alexa ranking is not improving anymore.That’s why i still keep on searching on how to improve it, but yet, majority tips was already done on my website, I think if your doing seo on your website it should be continues and even if you got what you want you still need to have time for once a day. Thank you for sharing….

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Midhun August 24, 2011 at 3:09 pm

YOUR Article is simply awesome.!! so , i would like to make a contact with you.you there in FB ryt?

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Wayne September 4, 2011 at 8:14 am

I really enjoyed reading all your comments and at the same time I am learning from you guys. Thanks for the tips

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mahesh October 10, 2011 at 10:45 am

My webiste traffic rank has been far more improved after installing the Alexa tool bar.

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