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Jo · 1 year ago

Found your post through problogger. Nice ideas. I'll definitely check out the firefox plugin; that one is new to me.

Abhishek · 1 year ago

There are billions of web pages and though most of them are spams but the good ones I mean the quality and contentful blogs never reat in alexa rankings coz of proper traffic. This is painful for every blogger

soultravelers3 · 1 year ago

Your title on problogger drew me because I am interested in knowing more about Alexa ratings. We only recently monetized our blog and I am still pretty clueless about the whole thing. We are traveling the world as a family ( going on our 3rd year) living large on very little, so I have lots to share, but everything is a big learning curve as I am computer illiterate. We are moving so not that much time to be plugged in either. Slowly I learn..thanks for this!

Nihar · 1 year ago

Nice post covering about alexa. I check sometimes alexa but not too often. but i think it is one of the important measures to check the traffic of a website.

Thanks,
Nihar

Angel Cuala · 1 year ago

I must admit, I am not putting too much effort in Alexa and PR but of course I increase my links and make sure they're of good quality.

Actually, I am surprise that both of my blogspot blogs are PR3.

Thanks for sharing anyway.

PS. Thanks also for reading and leaving a comment on my entry at Problogger. He's really among the top bloggers I admire.

Nishadha · 1 year ago

@Jo,
SearchStatus is a great plug-in with lots of features , you should definitely try it out.
@Abishek
Alexa is a bit skewed towards tech oriented blogs , its unfair I know :(
@soultraveller
You are welcome , with a PR4 and a good Alexa rank you want have trouble monetizing your blog
@Nihar , Angel
Concentrate on improving traffic and Alexa will improve automatically. But adding the above plug-ins can give you a little extra boost.

An American in France · 1 year ago

The forums one is a good idea, but you've got to be careful not to share too much with other webmasters on these type of forums. Scams run rampant on even great forums such as digital point including ones where people try to get you banned from Google AdSense because of jealousy.

However, even if you don't get a higher Alexa ranking, you'll probably still learn a lot from these types of forums since seconds after something big on the internet happens (such as Google's two weeks of not crawling on blogspot blogs) you'll hear about it there. Also, I learned a LOT about SEO at Digital Point... if not for Digital Point I'd have never heard of SEO!

David at AffiliateDragon.com · 1 year ago

Hi, like others, I too found you via ProBlogger. To be honest, I am not concerned about Alexa because I don't sell links but try and get as many quality incoming backlinks as possible. However, several of my posts have been promoted via social media sites so that should improve my overall Alexa rank.

Wakas Mir · 1 year ago

Nice tip and yes Alexa is cool but shouldn't be the only thing one looks for as some people get too serious about that. And as for sharing too much information it's nice to know there are people who don't like keeping things to themselves.

Online Writer · 1 year ago

I have installed Alexa widget in my blog already but I think the increase is coming more from the numbers of our visitors. As the visitors increase, our Alexa rank will increase also. One of my post about Alexa Rank and daily unique visitor estimation shows that Alexa Rank increases as our visitors traffic increase. Alexa Rank is much simpler to understand rather than Google Page Rank I guess.

Nishadha · 1 year ago

@Online Writer,
Yep , its mostly about getting traffic , but adding the Alexa widget definitely helps , visited your blog , great post about Analyzing web sites using Alexa rank :)

slym · 10 months ago

This is a great post, fortunately 70% of the time of website owner is consumed in experimenting towards increasing page rank and alexa rank. To start with increasing page rank one must start with downloading Alexa toolbar for IE or firefox on as many system possible. as a second step alexa widget on every page of your website, by this way every webpage opened is counted while calculating rank inspite is user does not have alexa toolbar installed knowtheworldaround.com

Nishadha · 10 months ago

@slym,
if you have added in in the sidebar , doesn't that count as in every page ? I think the most important thing that counts towards Alexa is the number of unique visitors , however it is a very poor way to measure the traffic to a website but still it is important in getting advertising.

work at home · 5 months ago

For monetizing your blog alexa ranking is very important. Alexa rank a website according to the number of visitors visit that site with alexa toolbar installed. If you want to increase earning from your blog then you have to increase alexa ranking. Advertising network like Text link ads, pay per post, sponsored review etc judge blog quality according to the alexa rank. There are some techniques by using which you can increase alexa rank. Download and installing alexa toolbar is basic for increasing alexa ranking.