In the past I did an experiment and left the F5 button on my keyboard pressed for about 12 hours. That resulted in gaining quite a few rankings but I can't remember how much now :\ it was a long time ago.
It helps if your site is viewed when the toolbar is installed. It is speculated that the only way visits are counted are through the toolbar. If you want each visit counted and your ranking improved, add the Alexa button. See the sight in my signature for an example: the button is in the toolbar. If you click on it you are taken to Alexa's site and then you can get your own button.
I have had pretty good results using a firefox extension called "search status" it works a lot better then the alexa toolbar, plus it will show you the PageRank and compete rank of the page you are on. (it will also send data to alexa just like the alexa toolbar).
i agree with him its easy.yesterday my alexa for talkerblog was 35 lakh today it is 21 lakh.my traffic increased from 130/day to 200.
Alexa rank is judged by how many visitors to your site have the alexa tool bar. Since almost everyone with the alexa tool bar is a web dev or involved in websites in some way, sites geared towards webmasters typically have higher alexa ranks than sites targeted to kids, or housewives even if they actually get more traffic. A good way to bring up your alexa rank is to promote your site to webmasters. This forum is a good start.
Alexa stats are bogus. I was visiting one of my sites alot with the alexa bar installed, and my rank was rising. I uninstalled the toolbar, and my alexa rank plummeted (but in reality my traffic actually doubled) don't use Alexa for anything serious, it is as reliable as those website value calculator gimmicks It is good for one thing though, if you get enough webmasters to look at your site, it can give a totally false over exaggeration of your traffic which you can then use to fool someone into thinking you have way more traffic than you really do.
does anyone know whether there is a big difference in sparky for firefox toolbar and alexa toolbar for IE...its both vairations of alexa, but i just installed sparky
alexa is good. In future firefox will have intergrated Alexa toolbar so it gets much better accuracy.