Alexa Ranking.....how ?

americantruckbuyer

Mar 5th 2007, 7:49 am

Daz

Mar 5th 2007, 8:00 am

Alexa ranking never really means much.
it only counts how many visitors with the alexa toolbar visit your site.

Also, for me your site appears to be 1million+.. not 10k?

And finally, to boost your traffic submit it to directories, link building, PPC.. etc :)

dylanmills

Mar 5th 2007, 8:37 am

Install the Alexa toolbar on your machine and visit your own site a few times a day. That should be enough to get you around 100k. Get a few buddies to do the same for you and you can do even better. Alexa is very easy to game until you get below 50k or so. Then you need to work even harder at it, get a lot of webmaster traffic (ie. other people who care enough about Alexa rankings to install the toolbar), or flat out have a ton of traffic.

Dubz

Mar 5th 2007, 9:08 am

You also have to keep in mind what industry you are in. For instance a truck and car website that sells and buys will never be in the top 1K or even 10K for that matter. Those sites are more for link sites, search engines, or social networking sites. Take that into account when looking at alexa as well. For instance it's easy to get a dir under 250,000 but tomake a forum on a niche topic would be alot harder so everything is relevant.

Also you mayb e making muchmore $ on your site at 1 Million than someone running a DIR at 100,000.:D

ma0

Mar 5th 2007, 3:35 pm

put a link on your website that goes to alexa's toolbar installer and explain in some way why you are doing this.
(always be honest)

ruby

Mar 5th 2007, 8:14 pm

I wouldn’t emphasise too much on the Alexa Rank but it is an indication however flawed in its inherent collection of data.

Try concentrate your efforts on SEO to improve your SERPS. That's where the real value is.

gibol

Mar 5th 2007, 8:44 pm

put a link on your website that goes to alexa's toolbar installer, it will increase alexa rank, but not sure about effect in serp?

americantruckbuyer

Mar 5th 2007, 10:59 pm

SO on installing ALEXA toolbar on my PC..and opening my site 3 to 4 times a day will help in the ranking in Alexa ???

Is it right to do so ??? will it bring any problem to my site ?

Regards
Puneet M

ruby

Mar 5th 2007, 11:02 pm

Yes it will make your Alexa better no doubt. You can do this there is no rule or anything stopping you. In fact many webmasters practise this technique.

djrishi

Mar 6th 2007, 2:21 am

I dont understand why all of us are after Alexa Toolbar. Focus your site visitors not alexa.. :)

rupertValentino

Mar 6th 2007, 2:35 am

Yeah the toolbar may increase your alexa rank but not your actual visitors and thats what you really need innit!

maxed

Mar 6th 2007, 9:12 pm

Alexa is a total waste of time....helps you in no way

ruby

Mar 6th 2007, 9:16 pm

Well of course it wont bring you traffic, its merely an indicator of traffic which as we know can be "fixed".

When selling advertising or even your site you can rest assure potential customers will look at it. OK they might not take it into consideration but they will still look at it.

In saying that yes its not really worth spending time on.

digitalstar

Mar 7th 2007, 1:51 am

Alexa rank purely depend on traffic your site gets. The more traffic you get Alexa rank of site will be that better.

Just take steps to increase traffic to your site. That improves Alexa Rank

americantruckbuyer

Mar 8th 2007, 12:10 am

Does traffic from different regions will increase my alexa rankings ... but does it only counts how many visitors with the Alexa toolbar visit my site or visitors without Alexa toolbar are also counted ???

Waiting 4 replies and "suggest me how to increase the ranking in alexa.."

Regards
Puneet M

Matt R.

Mar 14th 2007, 8:01 am

Check out my article about alexa rankings and how to improve them, boosting from where your at currently is more difficult than a company that is in the 100,000 range but some these practices should help your cause.

http://www.everythingkitchens.com/increase_alexa_rankings.html

rosiee007

Mar 14th 2007, 9:47 am

This is a bit off topic, but I've been using the Alexa toolbar for quite some time now. I was using it with IE 6 and was observing an impeovement in the Alexa Rank. But since I've started using IE 7, I've seen no change in the Alexa Ranking.

I think Alexa toolbar doesnt works with IE 7.

Has any body else noticed the same?

forumGuru

Mar 14th 2007, 9:49 am

honestly, you shouldn't worry about it. Like some of the others have already stated, it's a measure of how much traffic you get from users that have the toolbar installed so not really important. Technical sites will probably have a higher rating because of the userbase. Install it yourself so you at least get that advantage, but don't place too much emphasis on it.

ronaldmarva

Mar 14th 2007, 9:01 pm

Significance of Alexa Ranking depends on how you intend to use it. As a measure of how much traffic you get only from users that have the toolbar installed, makes the data of less significance.

fuse-box

Mar 14th 2007, 11:33 pm

i have read that google does look at alexa ranking for AL Google...and it gives a small point for having a high rank...i can't remember where i read it.
but i don't even think it's true at least not now anymore...since alexa doesn't use google technology anymore....

but i always look at alexa rank...i can't surf with out my alexa toolbar.

get a toolbar and every once in a while surf ur own website and u'll see alexa will bring it up.

good luck

S!D

Mar 22nd 2007, 12:28 pm

hey i heard, alexa used google search engine for its ranking, is it true ?

etali

Mar 22nd 2007, 2:24 pm

I read the page linked in one of the other posts, and I'd like to clarify something - does the activex thing that shows your alexa ranking to visitors also report back to alexa? Meaning that all visitors will count towards your ranking, not just those with the toolbar installed?

Or am I misunderstanding that part of the article?

Thanks.

CraigHP

Mar 22nd 2007, 4:31 pm

paidhosting

Mar 22nd 2007, 5:07 pm

My site is well ranked in Alexa and has lots of positive comments. I believe that this helps my Google ranking as I am told that Google gets a lot of its info from Alexa.

I think Alexa is very important to antone wanting to get a good Google rank.

Anyone have any ideas how Alexa gathers its info. Is it through the Alexa Tool Bar per chance?

Thanks

Craig

Yup its called the magical toolbar :D , without users having it on their browsers and visiting your site means alexa does not know that user exists at all. And what makes you say google relies on alexa for site ranking ?

Ace0

Mar 22nd 2007, 5:49 pm

Alexa is a total waste of time....helps you in no way

I would not be that harsh. yes indeed Alexa is not to important, but when selling a link on the page or some advertisment a good alexa rank can help you to get a few bucks more! ;)

samantha pia

Mar 22nd 2007, 9:12 pm

recommending people to put Alexa tool bar on their pc, is not good. you are asking them to have their every move recorded, all their surfing habbits.
you're asking them to install spyware

WebGeek182

Mar 22nd 2007, 9:42 pm

Alexa is a total waste of time....helps you in no way

I agree...don't waste time with Alexa. There are many better ways to use your time that will help drive traffic to your site.

brother8

Mar 23rd 2007, 5:03 am

.Darkman

Mar 23rd 2007, 7:24 am

I like Alexa ranks. But it need very good marketing and high quality content to get to the top 1000.

.Darkman

Mar 23rd 2007, 7:27 am

Also a lot of hard work is needed

chrysostom

Mar 23rd 2007, 7:31 am

To improve Alexia ranking:

1. install the toolbar and use it to view every page in your website once a day. Repeat and do again with a different computuer with a different IP, if you want.

2. Encourage your visitors to install the toolbar

3. submitting to directories helps some, if the directory is human edited and they have the toolbar installed and they visit your page with it.

Dediwebspace

Mar 23rd 2007, 9:59 am

Dont go by site ranking's ;)

gio

Mar 23rd 2007, 10:11 am

tell your friends to download and install the alexa toolbar and tell them to visit your site everyday. you can have a better results if you can ask 10 or more of your friends to do it.

grg

Mar 23rd 2007, 12:06 pm

I dont understand why all of us are after Alexa Toolbar. Focus your site visitors not alexa.. :)

But he wanted to improve his Alexa rank :)

paidhosting

Mar 23rd 2007, 1:06 pm

recommending people to put Alexa tool bar on their pc, is not good.
you're asking them to install spyware

Thats a nice hot topic samantha in itself, cause some say its not spyware at all. So you cannot tell someone not to tell others to install alexa toolbar cause the user mentioning the same did not invent alexa toolbar and cannot be held responsible for any losses if any on using alexa toolbar. Did you know that isp does know what we are doing on the web ?

autorave

Mar 24th 2007, 11:33 am

If anyone is interested .. I have an article on 20 ways to increase your Alexa Rank (http://www.doshdosh.com/alexa-rankings/20-quick-ways-to-increase-your-alexa-rank/).

Do give it a read and let me know your thoughts about it :)

americantruckbuyer

Aug 21st 2007, 12:37 am

Hey frds,

Thanx for your response and recommendations...

I got my site Alexa ranking under 1 lac .... and at present its Alexa rank is 83,195.

I had started a Blog too for the support of my site and got the needful visitors to get the rankings ;)

Regards
Puneet M

markn26

Aug 21st 2007, 7:59 am

Work on your google PR instead. As worthless as it is, it's more notable than worthless alexa ranks.

americantruckbuyer

Aug 22nd 2007, 4:18 am

Work on your google PR instead. As worthless as it is, it's more notable than worthless alexa ranks.

Thanx for the suggestion...

was working on the PR also .. and have got listed in yahoo too and working on increasing good backlinks ... this update am thinking will get PR 5 for sure ... and the predicted PR showing is 5 too.

Till next update will try for getting higher PR from now :D

do u have any ideas to get high PR ???

Puneet M

harrysmith

Aug 22nd 2007, 4:58 am

was working on the PR also .. and have got listed in yahoo too and working on increasing good backlinks ... this update am thinking will get PR 5 for sure ... and the predicted PR showing is 5 too.
Till next update will try for getting higher PR from now :D

do u have any ideas to get high PR ???

Puneet M

Don't rely on any prediction tool for me all those are just fake predictions;
Recently i had checked one of my site and it showed me PR 3 but actually my site is having PR 6 ;)
Well i will suggest you not to run behind PR or worry for getting it high rather
get backlinks and improve your traffic; work hard for getting top in SERP.

All the best :)

davewashere

Aug 22nd 2007, 6:33 am

The only reason you would need to worry about your Alexa rating is if you are working with an advertiser that demands a certain Alexa score or pays more the lower your number is. Those advertisers are stupid, but I'm sure many people have to deal with these types. As someone said before, Alexa only works by using the stats from people who have downloaded its toolbar. It is basically spyware, but if an Alexa score is something you have to be concerned with then it's a necessary evil.

markn26

Aug 22nd 2007, 8:23 am

Thanx for the suggestion...

was working on the PR also .. and have got listed in yahoo too and working on increasing good backlinks ... this update am thinking will get PR 5 for sure ... and the predicted PR showing is 5 too.

Till next update will try for getting higher PR from now :D

do u have any ideas to get high PR ???

Puneet M

For starters...lots of backlinks! If you have the money, I suggest spending the $300 for Yahoo Directory. I hit PR3 in three months (no joke), and I only have a few other worthless backlinks.

jumong79

Aug 22nd 2007, 8:49 am

HI ,,,

I want to boost the alexa ranking of my website http://www.americantruckbuyer.com to 1k...now its on 10k...so how can i get my needfull ??? any ways to get it ???

Waiting for the replies...

Regards
Puneet M

Why focus on ALexa Ranking? while Alexa Ranking is not an accurate in terms of ranking it is just an approximate computation of visits of site... it means not accurate and by the way it is manipulated there are lots of how to make a high Alexa rankings.. Just search for it...

If I were you focus on SERPs rankings.... if your site have many visitors or traffic your Alexa rankings will also affected.. Making it high also... :D

zhaira

Aug 22nd 2007, 9:05 am

To boost traffic from alexa is to submit your site to directories, add URL or links to forums, Use Alexa autosurfs and create some sort of webmaster tools page. If you want more information, you may click the jdavidmacor.com site.

usasportstraining

Aug 22nd 2007, 9:07 am

There are people in the Services section that say they can boost your Alexa rank. I suppose you could give them a try.

deshabhishek007

Aug 23rd 2007, 1:10 am

alexa ranking depends on the number of visitors.
so no chance except increasing visitor

americantruckbuyer

Aug 27th 2007, 1:33 am

For starters...lots of backlinks! If you have the money, I suggest spending the $300 for Yahoo Directory. I hit PR3 in three months (no joke), and I only have a few other worthless backlinks.

I think i have wrote that my site is in Yahoo directory already ... so no need to spend $300 again for it. :D

Thanx for the suggestion

To boost traffic from alexa is to submit your site to directories, add URL or links to forums, Use Alexa autosurfs and create some sort of webmaster tools page. If you want more information, you may click the jdavidmacor.com site.

HI frd,

i have given my site name in this post .... its on Buying & Selling of Trucks n Trailers related site and not about webmaster .... so i don't think that i can place some webmaster tools page on my site .... am i right frds ???

Anyways Thanx for the suggestions and i have got my needful things as my site is having good serps and under 1 lac Alexa ranking ..

Puneet M

markn26

Aug 27th 2007, 7:18 am

I think i have wrote that my site is in Yahoo directory already ... so no need to spend $300 again for it. :D

Visit the directory/solicitations forum here, every day, and submit your site to all of them. They won't help a lot, unless you're listed in lots of them. It's worth the try!

usasportstraining

Aug 28th 2007, 1:39 pm

Here's an interesting post about how to increase your Alexa Rank. I'd never heard of some of these techniques, so I thought others may benefit.

Here's the link: http://www.meridiancrest.com/increase-alexa-ranking-get-paid-more/

zaczebra

Aug 28th 2007, 2:12 pm

Alexa rank like others have mentioned can be manipulated, but if you want to do well with text link ads and adbrite (amongst others) it is an important and necessary part of there criteria

I.E get it down (by the widget technique and/or the search engine toolbar technique) - you get paid more or receive more offers

One other thing to note if you install the alexa widget on your site make sure you put it on every page! I installed the widget on just the home page of one of my proxies and the rank went from an average of 400000 to 800000 :mad:

I have obviously removed it since and the site is now about 250000

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Other sites i installed it on went from 8million to 1million :)

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So its swings and roundabouts for the widget technique ;)

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The Stealthy One

Aug 28th 2007, 2:17 pm

I think Google might consider your site's Alexa rank, but it's sort of like PageRank: just not that important in the big scheme of things. Having quality content is far more important. :)

1092387456

Aug 28th 2007, 2:42 pm

teampower

Aug 28th 2007, 3:34 pm

how did you get to 10k?

Sutocu

Aug 28th 2007, 3:46 pm

Not in 10k that. But to boost the ranking, all you have to do is put the Alexa widget on your site.

americantruckbuyer

Aug 29th 2007, 2:34 am

I got an alexa boast.

I moved mine form 700,000 to 500,000.

me too moved that site which i was lookig for alexa ranking from

700000 to 80464 :D

Regards
Puneet M

usasportstraining

Aug 30th 2007, 8:42 am

You can always post your site on this thread (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=455678).

americantruckbuyer

Aug 31st 2007, 12:07 am

Thats a good thread frd...

but seems to get closed down soon ;)

uttoransen

Sep 1st 2007, 12:38 pm

Thats a good thread frd...

but seems to get closed down soon ;)

try alexa auto surfs! i have one, pm me to get the link!
cheers!:D

thsadmin

Sep 2nd 2007, 10:57 pm

I refer to Alexa all the time when buying websites or links through ad networks and for those of you saying Alexa doesn't matter I have a question for you :

would you buy an ad' from

A site ranked 2000 000+ and sending 8000 visitors a day.

or

A site ranked 2000 and sending 8000 visitors a day.

This is a common occurence when buying ad's, the ones ranked in millions in alexa wouldn't be getting close to 8000 visitors per day, so it would seem they would be cheating the system and send bots as hits.

Where as a site in the top 2000 would have plenty of visitors and 8000 visitors per day from them is more believable.

Now my answer is this, spend $200 - $300 per week (on ad's) and you will be in the top 20 000 within 3 weeks, we have done this and within the first three months we were ranked 50 000ish and now we are within the top 20 000 sites daily and the overall Alexa rank drops daily.

americantruckbuyer

Sep 13th 2007, 12:56 am

hi "thsadmin"

thats a gud idea... but does the ranking goes till 20 000 by spending $200 to $300 ???

Puneet M

amwyyytg

Sep 13th 2007, 8:08 am

Alexa somehow indicate the quality of your website

markn26

Sep 13th 2007, 8:10 am

Alexa is nothing but a scam to get more people to use their toolbar....

americantruckbuyer

Sep 13th 2007, 11:20 pm

Alexa is nothing but a scam to get more people to use their toolbar....

Yes frd... i too think so...

as the Alexa gives ranking to a website which is surf by a visitor having Alexa toolbar.

The ranking should not depend on the visitors with alexa toolbar :)

Puneet M

paulaa

Sep 13th 2007, 11:36 pm

alexa doesn't mean much at all (if anything) aside from certain advertisers who actually look at the ranking.

Generally it is pretty much spot on. I.e. if a site has a 5,000 alexa rating, then you can clearly see its a well trafficked site.

Now alexa results lower than 10,000 are pretty much worthless.

uttoransen

Sep 14th 2007, 12:45 am

alexa rank is a great measure for webmaster related traffic, good alexa rank dosenot mean that your site has good traffic, but bad alexa rank proves that you don't have sufficient webmaster traffic!
regards:)

qazu

Sep 14th 2007, 2:27 am

uttoransen

Sep 14th 2007, 2:42 am

Or maybe it proves that Alexa toolbar sucks and none of your visitors use it?

not really! if you have a webmaster niche website and still your alexa rank is poor, then you sure don't have enough visitors!

remember, alexa toolbar is not the only thing that effects alexa rank, the "search status" mozila plugin also helps alexa rank, which a lot of people have in there browser!:)

ajitjc

Sep 14th 2007, 3:39 am

I am also in search with the tips to increase the Alexa ranks...

americantruckbuyer

Sep 17th 2007, 12:16 am

I am also in search with the tips to increase the Alexa ranks...

read the past replies ... and you will get your needful hints and tips to increase your alexa rankings for sure ... :D

vishald

Sep 17th 2007, 4:18 am

Alexa is based on How much your site is popular?, so you have to do SEO on your site or do link building..

americantruckbuyer

Sep 20th 2007, 7:03 am

Alexa is based on How much your site is popular?, so you have to do SEO on your site or do link building..

Placing ads on others sites with high traffic .... PPC ... will get gud amount of visitors to your website and increase Alexa ranking too ;)

mediabitdesign

Sep 20th 2007, 7:18 am

I've never been impressed with Alexa and the ranking it gives. Our ads4links site is up and down every month but gets the same traffic and links added every day.

tips2berich

Sep 20th 2007, 9:49 am

americantruckbuyer

Oct 3rd 2007, 7:40 am

You can download the alexa toolbar and whenever you visit your own site the traffic would be updated at alexa. Alexa has a very funny system of ranking. For example a site having 100 visitors per day could have a higher ranking (i.e. less importance) as compared to a site having 20 visitors per day and alexa toolbar.

yes thats the thing with Alexa ranking ...

but for me more visitors to my site is valuable then the Alexa ranking :cool:

But is there any diff way to get good Alexa ranking rather than with alexa toolbar visitors ????

Regards
Puneet M

usasportstraining

Oct 3rd 2007, 7:55 am

You could always add yourself to the Alexa visits threads in the Freebies section (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=105).

1092387456

Oct 3rd 2007, 8:04 am

I can boast your alexa with program if you want. PM me for pricing.

seconnection

Oct 3rd 2007, 10:04 am

Alexa is pointless.. don't waste your time.

cookiemon007

Oct 3rd 2007, 10:22 am

Alexa Ranking can be manipulated.... Go for SERPs and more traffic instead...

Robert Allen

Oct 3rd 2007, 10:24 am

Alexa Ranking can be manipulated.... Go for SERPs and more traffic instead...
Prove it. I have attempted to do this myself. I spent a month trying to bump my site. I only got to 29,000, and that was from visiters from this forum.

Sorry mate, you cannot manipulate alexa rankings.

If you have proof, please reply with it.

ROb

americantruckbuyer

Oct 4th 2007, 2:19 am

Prove it. I have attempted to do this myself. I spent a month trying to bump my site. I only got to 29,000, and that was from visiters from this forum.

ROb

hi Rob

u went to 29,000 alexa rank and that too visiters from this forum ???? :eek:

may i know about how did u got this target ??? :D

Puneet M

palani

Oct 10th 2007, 9:45 am

Hi,
Do some viral marketing techniques.It will improve your page alexa Page rank.

Thanks
Palani

I wouldn’t emphasise too much on the Alexa Rank but it is an indication however flawed in its inherent collection of data.

Try concentrate your efforts on SEO to improve your SERPS. That's where the real value is.

americantruckbuyer

Oct 12th 2007, 6:46 am

is there Alexa page rank ???

is Alexa traffic ranking also called Alexa Page rank ??? as the above member "palani" said :)

wish71

Oct 12th 2007, 6:58 am

Hi there

I have noted that my websites are very well ranked in yahoo and google, the daily visit are quite good (best in years) but my rank in alexa is very very low and going down.... how this is possible?

How to have a good rank in alexa?

Gursimran

Oct 12th 2007, 7:35 am

Alexa is nothing but a scam to get more people to use their toolbar....

not agree with you...
what profit will they get if all use their toollbar and toolbar dont include ads. It include Trend, Rank, Related Links which help us to get information of that site. They not only look at the number of hits from the toolbar, They also see the quality of their website and the contant. My proxy gets 1000 hits per day and still it do not have any rank...

fatinfo guy

Oct 12th 2007, 7:52 am

Data collection continues to disappoint if you don't have conversions or revenue. If Alexa shows your website as top 1000, then you may be able to get good money on CPM. However, every ad server will be tracking their own impressions, so your one million Alexa impression don't mean anything unless your website can deliver those impressions to the clients ad server with real tracking.

Alexa rankings, and similar ranking data tools should only be used for research and entertainment.

engedi05

Oct 12th 2007, 9:14 am

Alexa ranking is not really accurate and i wont want to bother about it either.

spartian

Oct 12th 2007, 10:30 am

one of my site got a rank which is less than 2000 but my traffic is only 20 unique visitors a day

analizatan02216

Oct 12th 2007, 10:46 am

i still confuse why we are using this tb which i think this is not accurate in estimating site...

QuantcastChris

Oct 12th 2007, 1:46 pm

Feel free to check out Quantcast. I would love any feedback

Thanks,

Chris

americantruckbuyer

Oct 15th 2007, 1:58 am

one of my site got a rank which is less than 2000 but my traffic is only 20 unique visitors a day

:eek: ranking less than 2000 for only 20 unique visitors a day :eek:

my site receives more than 3k UV per day but still my site Alexa is uner 1 lac.:eek:

what did u do to get under 2000 ??? fake ranking ??? :D