Alexa.com is a subsidiary of Amazon.com. And this site provides information about traffic for your website. Alexa Rank is calculated according to the number of your web visitors who installed the Alexa Toolbar.
In this article, will discuss the importance of Alexa Rank related
monetization of the website, but it will be discussed some weaknesses
associated with Alexa ranking as a measure of traffic.
Here are also discussed 20 methods and strategies that you can use to
increase your Alexa Rank dramatically in the short and long term.
What is Alexa Rank?
Simply put, Alexa Rank is a ranking system based on the ranking scheme
of traffic within each website to receive from the number of people who
visit the website with the Alexa toolbar already installed.
Alexa traffic rankings are based on three-month historical aggregate
traffic from millions of Alexa toolbar users and are a combination of
page views and reach.
Why would you want to increase your Alexa ranking?
Webmasters,
advertisers and advertising networks use Alexa rankings to determine
the value / value of advertising links on your website. If you rely on advertising or selling your website as a form of
monetization, you'll want to increase your Alexa ranking, as it will
increase your bargaining power when you offer advertising prices.
Problems with Alexa Rank
Alexa's ranking is highly inclined to the audience of technology
because of the audience of tech savvy, including the internet marketers
usually install Alexa Toolbar on their browser.
Many indicate that Alexa is an inaccurate method to measure the reach of the website, traffic and potential of the website.
Alexa is a silly way to measure traffic but unfortunately, in an imperfect world. Alexa is still widely used by webmasters and advertisers when it will measure the value of ads on your site.
Alexa rank system is "rada deformed" and does not need diperdetil again. The important thing is Alexa rank has become one of the central
elements of the monetizing strategy because in the eyes of the
advertiser, Alexa rank is considered important.
How Do I Get Started With Alexa?
There are two easy ways to start using Alexa. If you are using Internet Explorer, visit this page and download Alexa Toolbar. If you use Firefox, download the Search Status extension that can display Alexa Rank.
Can Someone Manipulate or Play Alexa Ranking?
There are methods that can allow you to easily change your Alexa ranking in millions to 100,000 levels. But passing the rankings of 10,000 and 1,000 is a much more difficult process, due to the intense competition between websites.
Some firmly say that there is no proven way to play Alexa, while
others have claimed that Auto Surfs and Scripts can do this work.
This article will not discuss that side because there is no guarantee
that Auto Surfs and other artificial methods will have the same effect
for every blog.
The easiest way to find out if the tips mentioned below really work is to try it yourself and monitor the results.
Ways to improve Alexa Rank
Here is a collection of methods that you can use to improve your Alexa Rank. Most of these tips come from some webmaster associates.
Do these tips work? According to some, yes, these tips work, but it is unknown that most of them require the active effort of some businesses. These tips will work as long as you consistently do some specific things.
To improve your Alexa ranking in the long run, I recommend focusing on
developing quality content and retaining a large audience and not just
purely artificially ways to improve your Alexa rank.
Creating content whose links are worth referencing others is the best passive way to improve your Alexa ranking.
It is important to emphasize that you should dedicate most of your
time to developing your website audience, while also implementing the
tips below to improve your Alexa rank.
1. Install Alexa Toolbar
Then set your blog settings as your homepage. This is the most basic step.
2. Installing Alexa Rank Widget On Your Website.
According
to some people, if a website has an Alexa rank widget, each click is
counted as a visit, even when the Alexa toolbar is not used by the
visitor.
3. Encourage others to use the Alexa toolbar.
Including friends, fellow webmasters or blog visitors. Also provide a link that contains a full explanation of Alexa about why need to install Alexa Toolbar. One
of my colleagues, internet marketer, ok, I call it his name, Danny
Baskara, founder of Evoucher.co.id, he is a great internet marketer,
social media expert and list builder, he also provides internet business
tips via email and Tips to -6 he asked his email subscriber to install Alexa toolbar, why do they need to install Alexa toolbar? As I recall he told his subscriber "You have to install the Alexa toolbar, otherwise these tips will not work."
4. Do you work in an office or own a company?
Download and install Alexa Toolbar on all computers and setting your website as a homepage on all browsers in the office. It might be useful to note that this only works if there is a Dynamic IP or uses a different IP. Two
years ago, I got a story from a friend of mine who worked at Coffee
Bean Jakarta (one of the groups of Para / CT Group), shortly after the
acquisition of Detik.com by Para Group, in mading office many posted
announcements: For all employees please install Setting Detik.com as the default homepage in the browser (I do not
remember whether in the dimention announcement also to install the Alexa
toolbar in the browser).
5. Write on Blog about Alexa.
Webmasters and bloggers love to hear about ways to improve their Alexa ranking. They will look at you and send you the target traffic (ie the end with the toolbar already installed). It gradually has an effect on your Alexa ranking.
6. Introducing your URL on webmaster forums.
Webmasters usually have toolbars already installed. You will get webmasters to support your website and offer useful feedback. This is a good way to give back to the community if you have useful articles to share with others.
7. Write content related to webmaster.
It falls into the domain and SEO categories, two areas where most webmasters have the Alexa toolbar already installed. Promote your content on social networking sites and webmaster forums.
8. Create a webmaster tool on your website.
This is a magnet for webmasters who frequently visit your website to get access to the lat-tools. Aaron Wall Webpage in SEO Tools is a good example.
9. Create an Alexa category on your blog and use it to include articles or news about Alexa.
These are resources that are easily accessible by your tech savvy
webmasters and website visitors while casually can help your ranking in
search engines.
10. Buy banners and links from webmaster forums and websites.
An ad that looks attractive and well displayed will drive a lot of
savvy webmaster traffic and has installed the Alexa toolbar to your
website, which can significantly improve your rankings.
11. Hire forum posters (forum members who actively post) to raise your Website.
By buying signatures in webmaster forums or promoting certain articles or materials in your website regularly. You can easily find posters that can be rented on Digital Point forums and other webmaster forums.
12. Pay the cafe owner to install the Alexa toolbar and set your website as the homepage for all the computers in the cafe.
This may seem difficult, rather silly and not a sustainable solution. I keep these tips because some people suggest that these tips can be useful.
13. Using Alexa Auto Surfs.
We
do not recommend this, but you need to know that there are tools or
bots to improve pageview, if using this tool every few minutes you will
see a refresh website (F5) by itself as if there is a new visitor. Is this tool useful? Maybe for a new site with Alexa Rank that is not so good.
Note that there are problems when you try to use Auto Surfs along with contextual ads like Adsense. This is not a long-term solution to increase your Alexa Rank So it is advisable to use it with caution.
14. Write unique and quality content.
This is a proven method to increase your Alexa rank. The more you have content that people can not get elsewhere that are relevant to your audience, the better the results will be.