How To Get Alexa Rank Under 100k?

[Manuelcrc]

Warriors,

As it currently stands, my blog's Alexa rank is #690,032. Just over a week ago it was a lot higher than that. I would love to know what I can do to keep it getting lower, FASTER. Jym Tarrant gave me a couple of tips, it could help a couple of people.

What do you advise Warriors?

[Bill Farnham]

Your Alexa ranking is a function of how many people visiting your site have the Alexa toolbar installed on their browser. If you have a big list see if you can get your list to install the browser and then go to your site a lot more.

Hold a contest and/or a sequential set of posts to keep them coming back.

Or just do what everybody else does and simply ignore Alexa. In the grand scheme of things that rank means very little compared to other metrics that actually pay the bills.

~Bill

[Manuelcrc]

Originally Posted by cinereus

+1 on ignore Alexa.

If you must though, install the toolbar on your computer and browse it a lot. Pay others to do the same.

I have the toolbar installed. It's helping. Thanks

[seoresources747]

try to get a traffic from social networking sites like twitter, facebook etc. you can get a huge traffic from this sites.

also improve your search engine ranking in google.they can get a millions of vistiors if you have right keyword

[fmnelly]

web 2.0 are highly ranked ,and search engine accrue much respect for links from such site . start creating more profile with your link in the bio that will help

[HarrisonJ]

Gotta get more traffic if you want real alexa ranking. Focus on making your website better and promoting it harder.

[valdonatas]

Alexa rank cannot be a purpose on itself. If you just want to have a nice alexa rank, you have to get more seo/technology/it/etc (some technology gurus) field visitors to your site - usually most of them have alexa toolbar installed. Which means even with very few customers visiting your website will make your alexa rank nicer.
I've experienced that myself - although I was getting only up to 15 visitors/day, I was participating in various link exchange directories and my alexa rank was 450000 - much lowe than a website with 150 visitors/day (the alexa was 3000000 for that website)

[Andrew Wilson]

At the level that you are Alexa has very little meaning at all. It tends to indicate negligible traffic and even a couple of visitors with the Alexa Toolbar will cause a significant change in your Alexa Ranking.

Alexa does have greater value once you get inside the 1-100,000 rankings because the data is much more statistically valid and many people who buy traffic and eyeballs use Alexa and the 100k mark as a starting point - get your site inside the 100K region and keep it there for a while and you will start to get all sorts of messages from folks who want to monetise your traffic.

If you want to get a better ranking without gaming the system you could do much worse than install an Alexa banner or button, this helps becasue you will then have all the traffic that your site sees counted by Alexa, that does not mean you will suddenly jump from zero to hero but that your data is counted accurately in the ranking algorithm rather than just being a guess based upon tool bar users.

Basically though until you are touching top 100K there is nothing to see, unless you are using Alexa to make comparisons with other sites in your niche - bounce rate, time on site and search traffic can give a useful snapshot, but there is no historical data until again you hit the magic mark.

[PatriciaJ]

Just get the alexa toolbar and keep visiting. My favourite site has an Alexa of over 1,600,000. I'd rather have 10,000+ visitors a week than a higher ranking

[chris032]

One thing I like to use to get good rankings with Alexa, is using paid traffic, and not ppc, because ppc is too expensive. You can go to yahoo and type in paid website traffic and select ones that you are interested in. This is one method that has helped me in the search engines.

[Cleberl1]

Maybe I'm wrong, but nowadays alexa ranking is not only based on the number of people using their toolbar...

I see many sites with great ranking wich I know 90% users never user that toolbar.

[MarcWalton]

One of my sites did get to 90.000 in alexa, I really dont know why/how. I don't use the tool bar and don't know anyone who does. The figure that they give for how many backlinks we have has always been wrong (currently alexa says we have 849 whereas we have over 10.000). Recently we did a major facelift. The site and forum is better laid out, all the new social media tools/bells and whistles. Traffic is up, page rank is up, we slipped to 160.000 in Alexa!!

The only benefits I can see is that it looks good when you are talking to potential joint venture partners and or advertisers as it gives some credibility to your sites, regards, Marc

[Andrew Wilson]

Originally Posted by Cleberl1

Maybe I'm wrong, but nowadays alexa ranking is not only based on the number of people using their toolbar...

I see many sites with great ranking wich I know 90% users never user that toolbar.

Yes, they can (and do) track exact site visitors. Among other things they do, one can add an Alexa badge to one's site or 'claim' the site, just as with Google.

From what I see though, the ranking signal can be overpowered still if one has a very large tendency to see visitors who use Alexa toolbar.

Marc: With regard to links, they only record links that have actually been visited by Alexa Traffic Panel members and they count each site only once. This is good as it means that one is seeing 'proper' links actually used by real people. I am happy to see that count increase each month even though I know that there are thousands more links than show up, after all, we are interested in 'real people', yes?

[MarcWalton]

Originally Posted by Andrew Wilson

Yes, they can (and do) track exact site visitors. Among other things they do, one can add an Alexa badge to one's site or 'claim' the site, just as with Google.

From what I see though, the ranking signal can be overpowered still if one has a very large tendency to see visitors who use Alexa toolbar.

Marc: With regard to links, they only record links that have actually been visited by Alexa Traffic Panel members and they count each site only once. This is good as it means that one is seeing 'proper' links actually used by real people. I am happy to see that count increase each month even though I know that there are thousands more links than show up, after all, we are interested in 'real people', yes?

Hi Andrew, thanks for the information. As I said earlier I dont really know how it works, but it was great for the ego if not the wallet apart from the fact that it gives you some kudos. As an experiment I have just signed up for their monthly fee and downloaded the toolbar, so lets see if that has any effect. One slight problem is that to verify the traffic statistics it says you have to attach the code to EVERY page of your site, we have over 2500 pages so thats not going to happen! Also most of our traffic goes to the forum so not sure if we can include that either. lets see what happens, thanks Marc

[cameron palte]

Originally Posted by Manuelcrc

Warriors,

As it currently stands, my blog's Alexa rank is #690,032. Just over a week ago it was a lot higher than that. I would love to know what I can do to keep it getting lower, FASTER. Jym Tarrant gave me a couple of tips, it could help a couple of people.

What do you advise Warriors?

I advise not worrying about this. Blog regularly ask your users to install the toolbars (mainly your RSS) and after you do that just blog and market and the rank will come with it... in my opinion rank isn't that big of a deal because in the end its the number of viewers not your rank that pays the bills or earns you the money... that being said building backlinks is a great strategy for this.

[Andrew Wilson]

Marc, you just put the 'banner' code in the footer of your template. If you registered for their premium service then I think pasting their claim code into your public_html folder will do the trick too.

I use Alexa to keep track of the competition, an improvement in my rank is always correlated with either increased interaction with my content and/or more traffic, both good things. Also, once I crossed the 100K line and stayed there I started getting commercial offers that were not available previously.

[MarcWalton]

Thanks Andrew, you just covered the cost of my warrior membership x 10. I will pass that on to my tech guy, it struck me as ridiculous. I too started to get more offers from advertisers and other companies took me more seriously when they saw the ranking (usually better than theirs , so its definitely better if you have it, but not the end of the world if not, regards, Marc