Top 10 tips for improving Alexa ranking

Alexa Company founded in 1996 is now subsidiary company of Amazon.com. It provides commercial web traffic data and rank the website according to the traffic received by the company by globally and nationally. As lesser ranking number you got for your website, higher traffic you are getting.

Alexa ranking uses various tool to collect the traffic data of sites and uses its algorithms to rank the particular site. However there are quite confusion to the accuracy of ranking provided by Alexa and seems unfair because they only count the traffic which gone through their system. Nevertheless it has become a major for webmaster to give importance of your site. Even when you apply for advertisement or AdSense they generally ask you for Alexa rank of your site.

So let have a look at the tips to make your sites Alexa ranking better.

1. Install Alexa toolbar: First thing you have to do is to install the Alexa toolbar in your browser and recommend other to install the same on their browser. This sends data to the Alexa server each site you visit through your browser.
2. Alexa widget: if you put Alexa widget in your blog or in site. That will encourage your visitor to click that. Each time a click is done you get benefitted.
3. Review: writing articles on Alexa can also do benefit to you. As Alexa is common keyword search today. It will help to link your page. If your article have quality contains than it is more likely that you will ranked higher on search engine results.
4. Back linking: if you comment on such website which gets good traffic than  you should leave there your own your URL too. This is called back linking. However if you do this too much search engine like Google can penalize your site. So be careful.
5. Sharing: it is important to share your posts and site linking many popular social networking sites like Facebook, twitter, Google+ etc. these site will help your site to get more traffics.
6. Write quality posts: Having quality posts to your site is much more important because this first thing that matter most. If the site contains quality posts than others will link to your sites for getting quality contains. This will help to have more backlinks to your site and improve your Alexa ranking.
7. Claiming your site: claiming your site Alexa gives more control to your site. This will show others that you are the owner of the site. These factors can also increase your Alexa ranking.
8. Post on webmaster forum: while posting on web forum, you should also post your site’s URL there because these webmaster have the Alexa toolbar installed in most of the cases. This will increase possibility of visiting your site.
9. Update the blog or site regularly: In this world of competition if you don’t write frequent quality posts, your Alexa rank will decrease. Once your Alexa rank get decreased, it takes time to get back there. So it is highly recommended that you should update your blog regularly.
10. Use Alexa redirect: Alexa redirect means putting http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect? In beginning of your website’s URL. Alexa also takes consideration into those links those are redirection links. In this case visitor don’t need to install the Alexa toolbar on their browser.

Final words: There are both pros and cons to Alexa ranking but it is hard to ignore Alexa ranking system because for advertising and to make good profit from your site, it really matters. Because of Alexa’s limited method of collecting traffic it is mostly possible that it gives inaccurate results. For getting much considerable traffic for Alexa, the most of the traffic should come from bloggers.

However the Alexa ranking system is very useful for highly targeted websites. Visitors are more important to Alexa than the how much links a site gets. So in this world of internet advertising Alexa ranking is the available right solution.

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