Hey guys, I made this post on my blog and I thought that you guys might want to know how I did it on one of my sites (not this blog where the post is coming from) If you want to check out the direct link to my post, head here : For those of you that do not know what Alexa is, it is a company owned by Amazon (yes the giant bookstore). What they do is to provide site metrics and judge the number of hits a site gets per day/week/month. However, what a lot of people do NOT realise is that those stats being provided are not accurate sites under the top 100,000. Here’s why (the following have been taken from Alexa’s own FAQ:- 1. Alexa’s traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users over a rolling 3 month period. 2. A site’s ranking is based on a combined measure of reach and pageviews. Reach is determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day. 3. Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site. 4. However, multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are counted as a single pageview. 5. Alexa’s traffic rankings are for top level domains only (e.g. domain.com). Thus, as you yourself can see, the only real way to truly increase an Alexa domain toolbar quickly is by having all your users use their toolbar. Mass propagation of the toolbar will ensure that you rocket up the rankings. Secondly, because they are all determined by total number of Alexa URL requests, you need to ensure that all your links run through the URL requests system at alexa itself. Thirdly, just pinging your site multiple times will not do anything because alexa will counts on unique IP addresses. (look up "class C" IP addresses on wikipedia). Lastly, unless your curent blog post is running on the homepage itself, you will not rank for that blog post (e.g. you would only rank top level domain, i.e. www.anthonyjudelawrence.com and now www.anthonyjudelawrence.com/alexa-does/not-allow-anything/other-than-top-level-domains/ get it? This is how you can solve the problem. And get extremely high rankings in the process. This blog is hardly even 2 weeks old. In that time I have skyrocketed from close to 8 million to 1 million. Here is the best part though. I only started employing these tricks 4 days ago! And I jumped that much, that fast. Here is what I did. 1. Download the Alexa Toolbar for IE and Download Sparky for Your Firefox Browsers and Install Them - This goes without saying. Get all your friends to install it too. If you can, get em to visit your site. You can download the toolbars HERE. 2. Use the Alexa Redirect code - what is this you ask? Well…. code all links you want to use with http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect? e.g. http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://www.yourblog.com/. What this essentially does is that anytime someone clicks on that link, it sends a redirect to Alexa and lets them know that a unique IP has visited the site. Thus, all those people push your rankings up. 3. A Word of Advise - Do not simply embed all links within your blog with the alexa redirect code. This will inevitably screw up your linking system and Google PageRank, which will equate to loss in search engine hits etc. Not nice at all. So how do you win both ways??? You can, if you know how! See number 4! 4. Better “Alexa Redirect†WordPress Plugin - This is a plugin which is available on the GoogleCode website itself. Here is how it works:- The particular plugin scans the entire set of links on any page of your blog while someone is watching it and it adds a JavaScript event to each of them, which upon clicking on the link (no matter is it a Left Click or a Right Click) will prefix it with the Alexa Redirect URL: in this way the person visiting your blog will visit the desired URL by forwarding the URL to Alexa. Here is an example - you have a link on your blog like http://www.yourblog.com/page/2, but when the user clicks on it, it will transform into http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://www.yourblog.com/page/2. In the same time, when a Search-Engine bot like Google visits your page it will not trigger the JavaScript event, because they are not JavaScript-aware: and in this way you "Alexa-Rating boosting efforts" will not mess your Google rating and search results positions. 5. So now you are ready to sort out your site and get your WP alexa rating skyrocketing - TIME TO GET SNEAKY - Here is what you need to do to get your alexa rating UP screaming fast! * Firstly, write up the blog post which you want to use as linkbait last (so that it can be seen right at the top of your blog. * Thus you can use http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://www.yoursite.com/ (without anything else here - so its top level domain) * Now, just use social bookmarking and use social news sites WITH THOSE TLD REFERRAL LINKS IN. * Ensure that you’re linkbait is gold, and YOU WILL GET BOTH YOUR ALEXA RATING AND ALSO CRAZY TRAFFIC TO YOUR SITE! - I have tried this with Digg. It Works. =) * Why stop there? Have u ever considered linking to your posts on forums with the embedded Alexa code? I get quite a lot of traffic from Alexa, and this is a great way to do it. I hope that you have enjoyed this link post. 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Just a resonable question here: If you have the alexa code on your footer (you can get this from their website) , you would not have to resort to doing the url redirection stuff. You would just need traffic and the alexa code would register each visit regardless of whether the user had their toolbar or not. It is much simpler to do. Just use one of the Alexa Widgets (into your footer) from here - http://www.alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup and provided your site gets good traffic, you should see your Alexa Rank get better.
Thanks for some really amazing tips Also Alexa is good measure still to measure traffic on a site & then selling links