In Alexa Ranking Intoduction, we have talked about the basic concepts of Alexa Ranking. Since Alexa ranking has been used as an important factor to decide the worth of a link or advertise on your website. Increasing your Alexa rank will be a critical bargaining power when it comes to ad pricing. ReviewMe, Text Link Ads and Sponsored Reviews are just three of the networks which base your ad selling strength on Alexa Ranks.

Below are the 7 very ways you can leverage to increase your Alexa ranking. All of them have been prove to be very effective and will boost up your data in Alexa very quickly.

7 Ways to Increase Your Alexa Ranking

1. Download the Alexa toolbar and use it every day to visit your own website. Alexa even gives you the ability to co-brand the toolbar with your own logo and give it away. You can download the toolbar here: http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/associatetoolbar.html. Besides using Alexa toolbar by yourself, you can try to encourage others including your friends and your visitors to use Alexa as well, those are the group of people who will more likely visit your web site again and bring some credit in Alexa ranking.

2. Download the Alexa ranking button, traffic history graph, info links, and other traffic counters onto the page of your website that receives the most traffic. For example, at the bottom of my home page http://www.webhostingclue.com, I’ve added the Alexa ranking box. You can do the same for your own site by visiting http://www.alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup. You’ll notice that I haven’t added the traffic history graph. This is because it wouldn’t look appropriate on my home page and because Alexa is only providing detailed history on the top 100,000 sites. So if you’re not in the top 100,000, site stats would not be available.

3. Use Alexa redirection whenever you can. No matter when or where you provide a link to your website, be sure to use the equivalent Alexa redirect URL. For example, when providing a link to my website, I use http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?webhostingclue.com. If you copy this URL into your browser, it will take you to webhostingclue.com. To use this technique, simply replace the name of my website (webhostingclue) with yours.

4. Take an inexpensive advertisement out on the ExactSeek search directory for only a few dollars per month at ExactSeek.com Search engine results are directly correlated with Alexa rankings. You’ll notice that if a website is highly ranked on ExactSeek, chances are that it will be highly ranked on Alexa.

5. Get listed on as many search engines as possible by placing a free listing in DMOZ. This is the largest human edited directory on the web and is co-branded among hundreds of thousands of sites. Be patient though, it often takes up to 5 months before you see your website listed after submission. Even though it takes longer than it should, you have little say in the matter because it’s so widely used across the Internet.

6. Write some content about Alexa, or something for Web Masters. Research shows that web masters are the group of people who would like to install Alexa toolbar, the more traffic from them, the higher Alexa ranking you will get.

7. Get Dugg or Stumbled. This usually brings massive numbers of visitors to your website and the sheer amount will have a positive impact on your Alexa Rank. Naturally, you’ll need to develop link worthy material.

8. Use PayperClick Campaigns. Buying advertisements on search engines such as Google or Exact Seek will help bring in Traffic. Doubly useful when your ad is highly relevant to webmasters.

Summary

These simple Alexa strategies are easy to implement and will make a huge difference in your Alexa ranking. Ultimately you want visitors to do more than visit your home page, you want them to interact with your site. Be sure to optimize your home page for SEO purposes, ease of use, and interaction. Creating a positive user experience will get visitors to return again and again.