The key to Alexa is traffic and lots of it. You need to have good content to be successful on the web. If you do that, Alexa will come. Keep in mind that depending on the niche there may be only so much web traffic on those key words
it helps but you can also place the alexa widget on your site. I have a shop that was 1.2million for the longest time, I installed the widget and its down to 600k and dropping.
use the widget it might help honestly you dont need Alexa rating its a fluke" focus on Google msn and Yahoo and social book marking thats key lol"
I agree above the tool bar will slow down your PC and it carries virus so think about that one unless your on a MAC" lol"
the search status plugin of mozila also helps to improve alexa ranks! and i guess a lot of us have that on our mozila browsers!
uttoransen Good Tip but why is it some how the Alexa Rating for bestpricedcoffee.com simply vanished it a rating of over 5 million??
Downloading the toolbar will only bring your site from the millions to the 800,000-1,000,000 range. You will need more visitors than yourself to get a really good ranking. One good tip I heard is to write an article (if you have a blog) about decreasing your Alexa rank. Most people who are interested in decreasing their Alexa rank already have the toolbar installed which will help you lower your own ranking
Does the Mozilla Firefox Alexa add-on works like the same as the toolbar of alexa on ie? I tried to install alexa toolbar on ie but my antivirus treated it as a spyware.
Traffic is the key, further I guess alexa also take backlinks in count (which are ranking good on alexa).
noli_m I agree with this! thats why it is wise not worry about Alexa it is a bunch of crap and it takes years in order for you to stay listed with Alexa by the way have you herd of a alexa directory out their??? lol"
I agree above also submit your site to the crawler http://www.alexa.com/site/help/webmasters#crawl_site lol"
just checked it, and it has not alexa rank. your site is not of webmaster niche, so people that comes to your site has less chance for having an alexa toolbar installed. 5million is huge, try to get it a bit less and your rankings will not go away!
uttoransen nice thanks lol" agreed I will look over this" are you saying that the lower your rank the better off your rating and a better Alexa crawled website ??? need to know this as a seo tip cheers"