Before I start going into details about how to improve your Alexa rankings, it’s best that you understand how Alexa works. A website’s Alexa rank is a unique number from 1 to infinity to rank websites according to their traffic. If a website has an Alexa rank of 50, that means it’s the 50th most-viewed website in the world. The way that they collect data is through the Alexa Toolbar. Users who have the Alexa Toolbar installed on their browser send data to the Alexa servers that tells them the popularity of a website. So in a nutshell, the only way to improve your Alexa ranking is to get more people with the Alexa Toolbar to view your website.
Internet Explorer or Google Chrome
If you visit http://www.alexa.com/toolbar, you will find many downloads specifically for Internet Explorer and Google Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox
If you’re like me and use Firefox as your main browser, you can install the official Alexa Toolbar or you can use an add-on called Search Status. Search Status tucks nicely in the corner of your Firefox window and displays Google PageRank, Alexa rank, and Compete.com rankings (which I have turned off). Just like the official Alexa Toolbar, Search Status will send data to the Alexa servers about the websites you visit.
Final Step: Raising Your Rank
Without going into too much detail, the best way to improve your Alexa ranking is to encourage your website visitors to use the Alexa toolbar or Search Status. You could also install the toolbar on your friends’ computers or write a review about Search Status to get more people to download it… It doesn’t matter what you do, but it all comes back to the Alexa toolbar and the amount of traffic you get from users with it installed.
compared to your alexa’s screenshot above, i checked your alexa rank now and it is 207,185! it really does improve a lot!
i am really learning a lot of things from your blog. thank you very much!
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love your post its very informative, my alexa rank has improve too, but i used some strategic post to boost it!
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Your information is very usefull. I will try it and I hope can get a better position as soon as possible.
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You have shared really a nice information sometimes ago i was not aware about the Alexa rank but now i know all about Alexa. I will surely download this Alexa toolbar and follow the steps.
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Alexa is really frustrating because, like you said, the only visits that count are those from people with the toolbar. You could be one of the most popular sites in the world, but only rank on Alexa as such if most of those visitors actually installed that toolbar. It’s such a horrible judge of how popular a site really is, but sadly, it’s one of the main things advertisers look at when they decide whether or not to work with you. Thanks for the tips on improving rating!
This is why it’s helpful to have a blog about blogging and SEO because the majority of your readers will have the toolbar installed. I also have a blog about aquarium keeping and it doesn’t do nearly as well with Alexa and backlinks because the majority of other bloggers in that niche don’t have a clue about marketing and SEO.