How can I raise an Alexa ranking?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by jasontn, Oct 31, 2009.

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    How can a site raise it's Alexa ranking? How can a site like harmony-central.com have a high Alexa ranking and yet not be ranked for any major music related keyphrases? Does simply good content raise rankings?
     
    jasontn, Oct 31, 2009 IP
  2. DubDubDubDot

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    The Alexa rank is related to traffic volume. That site has been online since 1995, so ranking high for competetive terms isn't as necessary for them as it is for newer sites.
     
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  3. Agent000

    Agent000 Prominent Member

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    Why do you want to raise it for? It does not mean anything and has no bearing on search engine rankings.
     
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  4. jefftd77

    jefftd77 Active Member

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    Harmony-Central may get it's traffic from other sites sites and not need to rely strictly on organic results. Most reputable sites don't rely strictly on organic results (don't put all your eggs in one basket) ....... if Google changes it's algorithms, it could re-arrange the top results and the #1 result could drop to lower pages. Therefore, it's good to have other sources of traffic (which is what I assume Harmony-Central has).

    Just my 2 cents :)
    Jeff
     
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    year alexa rank is more based on incoming traffic.
     
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    webcosmo Notable Member

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    increase the pageviews per visitor. that should help.
     
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    A lot of people buy traffic to raise their alexa and then sell on the sites. But I think people are catching onto this method.
     
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    rhoula Well-Known Member

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    Alexa ranking is not a reliable traffic measure for any website.
    the Alexa Rank is based on the level of traffic each website receives from the number of people who visit a website with the Alexa toolbar installed.
    People use Alexa rank as a gauge to determine the worth of a link on your website.

    If you are selling link from your site you’ll definitely need to increase your Alexa rank, because it’ll increase your bargaining power when it comes to selling links or ads.

    No matter what people say, the Alexa Rank has become a central element in site moneytization strategies.

    If your site is in the 1,000,000's auto-surfs and scripts do work to some degree, but once you get to the 10,000 it gets harder and harder because of the competition out there.

    Here are few things you could do to improve your ramking:

    1. Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension
    2. Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website
    3. Encourage your visitors to use the Alexa toolbar
    4. Get the Alexa toolbar or SS Firefox extension installed on all the computers you use
    5. Rate your Alexa website profile and have others do the same.
    6. Write about Alexa in your website so other will link to it
    7. Add your website to all the forums signatures you use.
    8. Promote your content on social networking websites and webmaster forums.
    9. Use Alexa redirects on your website URL. Try this: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.yourwebsite.com
    10. East Asian web users are big Alexa toolbar fans, use their website to promote your links.
    11. Add a webmaster tools section on your website. to get as many webmasters as possible to visit your links.
    12. Use Digg and other social bookmarks to promote your sitemake sure the link is worth visiting.
    13. Buying advertisements on search engines will help bring in Traffic. Doubly useful when your ad is highly relevant to webmasters.
    14. Add an Alexa category to your blog Forum or website, include articles or news about Alexa.
    15. Optimize your Best and most popular posts. If you have a post that receives a lot of traffic from the search engines, Include a widget/graph at the bottom of the post and link to your Alexa post
    16. Buy banners and links for traffic from webmaster forums and websites.
    17. Hire forum posters to pimp your website with their signatures in webmaster forums or articles.
    18. Pay Cybercafe owners to install the Alexa toolbar and set your website as the homepage for all their computers.
    19. Use MySpace, facebook to get more visits to your site.
    20. Try Alexa auto-surfs.

    Good luck

    This is a summary from this website
     
    rhoula, Nov 1, 2009 IP
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    Autosurfing may improve your Alexa rank but if you are using Adsense then it may also result in a ban , so it is better to read the Terms of advertisers before you decide to use Autosurfs...

    Regards,
     
    anup.mahajan, Nov 1, 2009 IP
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    buy some traffic flood, you can search in this forum,[that if you wanna make your alexa ranking better] :D
     
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    Western Well-Known Member

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    good sharing. the important thing is still the traffic for Alexa
     
    gadjr, Nov 4, 2009 IP