Here are the four worthless tricks that most people tend to use to increase their Alexa rank. As I suggested in my last post on Alexa, Top 5 Proven Ways To Improve Your Alexa Rank really works in the new Alexa 2008. Putting a widget such as below is the best method I?ve found so far that boosts your Alexa.
However, I wonder why people use these useless tricks with hopes to increase their Alexa ranking.
Let me tell you one more time, these are useless tricks and does not help you at all in increasing your Alexa ranking.
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1. Installing Firefox Extension That Reloads Web Pages
The extension for Firefox named ReloadEvery reloads web pages at a certain time period on user?s direction. I?ve found many people were using this to increase their page views, hopefully thinking Alexa would count towards their Alexa ranking. Unfortunately, this doesn?t work at all because multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user counted as a single pageview by Alexa. And if you?re using Google Adsense, consider your account to be banned!
2. Install Alexa Redirect Plugin for WordPress
Installing Alexa Redirect Plugin for Wordpress will edit all your internal blog links to add the ?Alexa redirect? prefix, i.e., http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?
However, let me tell you one thing, this doesn?t work on persons who does not Alexa toolbar installed. Far worse than that, it will completely destroy your internal linking structure of the site. In addition, there is no solid proof that using such will increase Alexa?s traffic ranking.
3. Install Alexa Toolbar on Several Computers in Your Local Area Network and Set Your Site as Your Homepage
Yes, this one?s a bit tricky. I?ve seen many people recommend ?bribing? cyber guys to put their website as homepages. However, since they share the same IP address, all the page viewed will be counted as only once a day!
4. Using An Alexa Auto Surf
Alexa auto surfs may work for new sites with terribly low Alexa ranking, but it seems as soon as Alexa discovers people using Auto Surf programs, the website ranking will cease to improve! In addition, if you?re using google adsense, you may get into trouble!
So are you wondering how to increase Alexa Ranking?
I could not stop wondering about how this Alexa system works when even after getting 757 visitors (increased web traffic) on July 4, 2008, my Alexa graph showed that I had less-to-insignificant traffic, irrespective of June 23 Alexa graph, which showed much more traffic with just 149 visitors! Here is my graph of Alexa web traffic.
My Alexa Data Till July 16, 2008
I immediately started working to find my answers. As I started digging more to this matter, I found it interesting that Alexa web traffic does not actually measure the actual amount of visitors but a mere number of users who visits the site with ?Alexa toolbar installed.? I guess that explains my question of inaccurate Alexa graph.
Unfortunately, advertisers and ad networks use this Alexa rank and Alexa web traffic to relate the worth of a link, and hence, Alexa ranking is important to everybody who are considering site monetization.
So, how do we improve our Alexa rank?
Here are my ?Top 5 Proven Ways To Improve Your Alexa Rank.?
Top 5 Proven Ways To Boost Your Alexa Ranking
1. Install Alexa Toolbar: Since Alexa actually measures traffic from various users who use Alexa toolbar, doesn?t it make sense that you should also install Alexa toolbar in your browser? Yes, and in fact setting your blog as your homepage and loading it every day does help improve your Alexa rank to some extent. (However, constantly reloading your pages every minute/hour etc. won?t help you further increase your Alexa rank as Alexa counts a unique IP address once a day only).
Alexa Certified Site Stats for http://www.enfotainer.com
2. Put Alexa Rank Widget On Your Website: If you put Alexa Rank Widget on your webpage (like above), Alexa can more accurately rank your site as it can collect traffic information of all those visitors as well who do not use the Alexa toolbar!
3. Encourage Others To Use Alexa Toolbar: You will notice an immediately boost in your Alexa ranking immediately if you can encourage your loyal site visitors such as friends, webmasters, etc. to use the Alexa toolbar.
4. Use Alexa Redirects: I have found positive results with Alexa redirects. You can leave a redirected Alexa URL in blog comments, forum signatures, etc. with your site name as anchoring text. Instead of using http://www.enfotainer.com, all you need to do is redirect the webpage using http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.enfotainer.com.
You can use this Alexa redirection in internal linking system as well, but be warned that it is said such redirects ?may? have a negative impact on building internal and external links. So use it at your own discretion. (Also of note, this redirect will also count a unique IP address once a day so again clicking it multiple times won?t help at all.)
5. Concentrate On Bringing Webmasters Traffic: This might make less sense but my logic is since many webmasters already have Alexa toolbar installed in their browser, if you can anyhow attract webmasters to visit your site, then you?ll really notice a big jump in your Alexa ranking. You can attract more webmasters to visit your site simply by joining webmasters forum or writing contents related to webmasters (such as writing on SEOs and SERPs), etc.
So what do you think of Alexa Ranking? Have you tried increasing your Alexa Rank by any of these methods? And if you tried this, did you notice any increase in your Alexa web traffic?
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