Finally Cracked Alexa Top 100,000

[Chris Monty]

I just hit 98,177 with my blog.

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Pretty cool IMHO. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone here for reading, commenting, etc.

I've been SEO-ing the heck out of it. It's nice to see some benefits.

Thanks all!

[dhudiburg]

Right on Chris! Definitely nice to see tangible results!

[Chris Monty]

Thanks, my friend.

Now this is weird. In Firefox, the Alexa widget says "updated October 24, 2008..98,277". In Internet Explorer, it says, "updated October 23, 2008, 101,000".

Very strange.

[dmderoeck]

What's more impressive is the PR of 2.

Congrats!

[birdfood]

Hi Chris,

That is a great Alexa ranking, you'd be getting at least 2000-3000 visitors daily with that.

What would you say is the main seo technique you used to get such a good ranking?

[sylvestor]

Similar to birdfood's question, what sort of strategies are you using and what seems to be working the best for you?

[Writing Warrior]

Awesome! I wish I could get there... looking forward to hearing more details of your success.

[jhongren]

Congrats Chris! Now aim for the top 50,000?!!! All the way, Chris!

John

[Chris Monty]

Thanks, all.

The truth is, I wouldn't say that it's any ONE thing in particular. It's a combination of backlink-building, forum posting, trend watching, and just writing good, helpful content.

I know you were looking for a magic bullet of sorts, or the Colonel's secret recipe, but there really isn't one.

I will say that I actually USED the things I wrote about in my "SEO Supremacy" WSO a month or two ago. I didn't start this thread to be a product plug, though.

Just commit an hour or two a day to SEO. That's all there is to it.

[Alex Sol]

Congrats on breaking the 100,000!

Originally Posted by dmderoeck

What's more impressive is the PR of 2.

Congrats!

You are joking, right?

[James Schramko]

Well done!

100,000 is a great milestone.

[Alexandar]

Congratulations. It's always good to see your efforts pay off.

[Dan Grossman]

Keep working. Once I broke the Alexa Top 20,000 list, I started getting the calls from VCs looking for investment or partnership opportunities with my company.

[Chris Monty]

Originally Posted by Dan Grossman

Keep working. Once I broke the Alexa Top 20,000 list, I started getting the calls from VCs looking for investment or partnership opportunities with my company.

Nice. Did you take them up on it?

[Dan Grossman]

Originally Posted by Chris Monty

Nice. Did you take them up on it?

No, not interested in taking part in that world. You take a big investment and you give up ownership of your company and are expected to work very, very hard doing whatever product development or growth you agreed to in order to get that investment.

I'd rather earn $100,000-200,000 a year working 4 hours a week than hope for a big payoff years down the line working 60 hours a week.

It's nice to know I'm on their radar, though.

[birdfood]

Originally Posted by Chris Monty

Thanks, all.

The truth is, I wouldn't say that it's any ONE thing in particular. It's a combination of backlink-building, forum posting, trend watching, and just writing good, helpful content.

I know you were looking for a magic bullet of sorts, or the Colonel's secret recipe, but there really isn't one.

I will say that I actually USED the things I wrote about in my "SEO Supremacy" WSO a month or two ago. I didn't start this thread to be a product plug, though.

Just commit an hour or two a day to SEO. That's all there is to it.

Hi Chris,

I know enough about SEO and IM to know that the magic bullet is an illusion, no problem there

I checked your site for back links and PR before writing my original thread to you and saw that you had 1762 links and PR of 2.

My site has 2228 back links, a PR of 4 and an alexa score of around 130 000. So you are doing something I'm not or at least doing it better that I could learn from.

Looks like I need to be smarter about my SEO and check out your WSO.

[Chris Monty]

Originally Posted by birdfood

Hi Chris,

I know enough about SEO and IM to know that the magic bullet is an illusion, no problem there

I checked your site for back links and PR before writing my original thread to you and saw that you had 1762 links and PR of 2.

My site has 2228 back links, a PR of 4 and an alexa score of around 130 000. So you are doing something I'm not or at least doing it better that I could learn from.

Looks like I need to be smarter about my SEO and check out your WSO.

Yes, I suppose that is true. It's not always so much about PR and backlinks as it is about site marketing and good old traffic.

[Chris Lockwood]

Originally Posted by Alex Sol

Congrats on breaking the 100,000!

You are joking, right?

The whole concept is a joke, given how useless Alexa and PageRank are.

If you want a milestone, go by actual visitors per day or month, or sales, or something else that's real.

BTW I've gotten sites into the Alexa top 200,000 before telling anyone else they existed, just my own activity building the site, which shows how useless it is considering it was one person...

I've also had top 100,000 with well under 1000 visitors a day. It's pointless to guess the number of visitors from the Alexa ranking.

[Daniel Molano]

Chris definitely knows what he's doing when it comes to SEO, I had a chance to check that WSO back then and review it.

If I'm not mistaken, Alexa rank is based on traffic (traffic that has the Alexa toolbar installed I might add).

So I take it Chris probably optimized his blog around certain high traffic, relatively low competition keywords and built up on them.

In theory you could crack Alexa rankings with zero SEO as long as you have enough traffic (and hoping those visitors have the Alexa toolbar installed).

I wouldn't say Alexa ranking is useless, it's just not very accurate, but being past the 100,000 milestone is definitely a sign that you are doing something right.

Now pagerank is definitely important, especially when it comes to quality of backlinks and SERP rankings.

[askloz]

It's not about the backlinks total, it's the quality of the backlinks (offpage and onpage factors), a new site I launched 25th sept, hardly has any backlinks already received 1500 unique visitors for this month.

Originally Posted by birdfood

My site has 2228 back links, a PR of 4 and an alexa score of around 130 000. So you are doing something I'm not or at least doing it better that I could learn from.

[askloz]

That, plus if you have the alexa code snippet on your site so it monitors the traffic when those who don't have it on their browser.

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

So I take it Chris probably optimized his blog around certain high traffic, relatively low competition keywords and built up on them.

[Chris Monty]

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

Chris definitely knows what he's doing when it comes to SEO, I had a chance to check that WSO and review it, it's gone now I believe.

If I'm not mistaken, Alexa rank is based on traffic (traffic that has the Alexa toolbar installed I might add).

So I take it Chris probably optimized his blog around certain high traffic, relatively low competition keywords and built up on them.

In theory you could crack Alexa rankings with zero SEO as long as you have enough traffic (and hoping those visitors have the Alexa toolbar installed).

Hey, thanks Daniel. I didn't really mean to bring all of the whiners out. Some people just feel the need to rain on a parade.

I never said I was some uber-guru, I just said that I had cracked the Alexa top 100,000. I thought we were all intelligent marketers here who knew that some days you're the bug and some days you're the windshield. It's just nice to be the windshield once in a while.

You're right, though, I do SEO the hell out of my blog.

[Alex Sol]

Originally Posted by Chris Monty

Hey, thanks Daniel. I didn't really mean to bring all of the whiners out. Some people just feel the need to rain on a parade.

I never said I was some uber-guru, I just said that I had cracked the Alexa top 100,000. I thought we were all intelligent marketers here who knew that some days you're the bug and some days you're the windshield. It's just nice to be the windshield once in a while.

You're right, though, I do SEO the hell out of my blog.

Hey, Chris!
I've got a WP blog (I am hosting it), I have the ALL in ONE SEO plug in. So I fill out the info in the plug in for every post, I also KEYWORD optimize my Post title - and well the actual post. I do use anchor text when linking to the post... I started doing so 6 weeks ago and my 3 months old blog jumped from PR0 to PR2... Am I On the right track or am I missing some important SEO points?

Thank You,

Alex

[Dan Grossman]

Originally Posted by Alex Sol

Hey, Chris!
I've got a WP blog (I am hosting it), I have the ALL in ONE SEO plug in. So I fill out the info in the plug in for every post, I also KEYWORD optimize my Post title - and well the actual post. I do use anchor text when linking to the post... I started doing so 6 weeks ago and my 3 months old blog jumped from PR0 to PR2... Am I On the right track or am I missing some important SEO points?

Thank You,

Alex

On-page SEO is maybe 10% of the battle.

The other 90% is in who's linking to you and in what context.

That 90% can't be bought, as article marketing, social manipulation and blog comments just aren't the same as real, natural links from relevant sites. Google knows the difference, and manipulation will always lose out to quality in the long run. If it doesn't, well, that's the end of a usable web for all of us, and us smart computer scientists aren't gonna let that happen.

Focus on satisfying the burning need of your readers or customers, not on SEO, and you'll find that the search ranks come along with it. Maybe you'd be surprised how many top ranked site owners don't know what the acronym SEO stands for, they were too busy with relevant work to think about that.

[Chris Monty]

You said it, Dan. the All in One SEO plugin is awesome, but you can't beat the power of backlinks when it comes to SEO.

Just provide catchy, appealing material and people will link to you.

[talfighel]

Hey Chris,

Great job. The more backlinks to your blog or website, the better it is for the rankings.

Tal