Is there any other way to help Alexa track your traffic... like inserting one of their badges.. my understanding is that it is based 100% off of their toolbar?
I don't know too many folks that even put much stock in Alexa.... it's mostly used by marketers... not a valid market segment really
I've put the button on a few of my blogs that get about 100-200 visitors a day with mostly google referral trafic. Then I have a blog that gets most of it's traffic from other people interested in marketing and most likely people who have the alexa bar on their IE, and this blog also gets 100-200 visitors a day. The blogs with the badges, 500,000, the blog with marketer traffic, 100,000. I agree that this metric doesn't hold much weight. If you download the bar for IE and use IE at your site, then the ranking will improve. That's the easiest way I can think of. Maybe get like 5 friends to do this too and visit your site.
Agreed. Alexa is bollocks and can be manipulated by having your friends or some people in your network install the toolbar.