Monday 7 October 2013

How To Improve Alexa Ranking Of Your Blog/website ?

Alexa logo
Alexa is a well known website that calculates your website ranking by using some algorithms. Alexa is a sister website of Amazon.com and it shows the quantity of traffic your website is receiving. Alexa decides the traffic ranking of your blog mainly on the basis of daily visitors and number of page views and hence it is important to have some visitors to your website/blog to achieve some good Alexa ranking.

Why it is important to improve Alexa ranking of your website ?

Since Alexa is a well known traffic ranking website and therefore almost all major internet users know about it. Alexa not only decides your blog ranking but it also helps your website visitors to believe in your blog/website. Alexa ranking shows the quantity of traffic your website is receiving and hence some of the advertisers consider it as a means to approve your website for showing their advertisements.

Also read: Why improving Alexa ranking is so important ? - Recommended

Tips to improve Alexa ranking of your blog/website :

Claim your website:

This is my website
Its the first step you need to follow, means you have to register your website with Alexa. Claiming your website is simple process, you just have to enter the URL of your website to Alexa and then it will provide you a short code that you have to paste under <head> tag of your website. After that Alexa can easily monitor your blog or website traffic.

Claim your website on Alexa 

Install Alexa toolbar in your web browser :


Alexa Toolbar
It is also one of the important step to improve your Alexa ranking, install Alexa toolbar on each and every browser of your desktop and set your blog/website as browser's homepage. Also you can ask your friends and visitors to install Alexa toolbar on their browsers.

Download Alexa toolbar for your browser

Put an Alexa widget on your blog/website :


Alexa traffic ranking widget
Having an Alexa widget on your blog always helps to improve your blog ranking, so place any Alexa ranking or review widget on your blog.

Get Alexa traffic widget for your blog/website. 

Also read: How to add Alexa traffic widget to Blogger ?

Purchase a top level domain for your blog/website :

Top Level Domains
Many webmasters forget this step, but this also an important step to follow. Although Alexa provide ranking for sub domains like xxx.blogspot.com or abc.wordpress.com but personally, i have seen that the Alexa ranking for websites with top level domains is much better as compared to the blogs/website with sub-domains.

Write a review about your website on Alexa :

As Alexa algorithm considers various factors to decide Alexa ranking for a particular website, it is important to write a good review about your website on Alexa and ask your friends and visitors to write a good review about your website on Alexa. You can do it by placing an Alexa review widget on your blog/website.

Build some valuable backlinks :

Back Links
Yes, backlinks are also a great way to promote your blog/website, generally a backlink is a hyperlink that links from a Web page, back to your own Web page or Web site. Backlinks not only helps you to increase some traffic to your blog but it also helps to improve your Google page rank. You can create some backlinks by commenting on someones post and leaving your website link in comments or you can participate in forum discussions and leave your valid links. The thing you need to focus while creating a backlink is that you have to leave your website link on websites that have high Alexa and Google page rank.

Keep updating you blog/website :

This is another important thing you need to consider to improve your Alexa ranking, as Alexa provides ranking on the basis of past three months. Alexa calculates two ranks one is international rank and other is rank with in your country, international ranking is calculated on the basis of visits in past three months while your country rank is calculated on the basis of past one month visitors. So you need to update your blog on regular basis to achieve a good Alexa rank.

Write on forums :

There are some good forum discussion websites where you can participate and create a backlink for your website, but beware of creating valid backlinks otherwise they may ban you. So keep participating in forum discussions.

Write a review on Alexa :

Personally, i don't know whether it works or not but many webmasters say it works. So if you own a tech blog than write a good review about Alexa.

Submit your website to major search engines :

Google Bing Yahoo
If you are new to blogging then make sure you have submitted your blog to main search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc. Also you can use Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tool for faster indexing your webpages.

Submit your blog/website to Google.
Submit your website to Bing.

Submit your blog/website to major directories :

This is another steps for new webmasters to submit their website to major directories like DMOZ, Yahoo directory. This may help search engines to easily find your blog/website.

Sharing your posts to social networking websites :

Today social networking sites are the great source of traffic, so always share your posts with your friends. This may help you in increasing some visitors which is necessary for achieving a good Alexa ranking.

Create a Facebook fan page of your website :


Facebook Logo
Today Facebook is the largest social community, hence it is important for you to create a fan page for your blog/website. Maintaining a fan page can also help you increasing your visitors and also you can use it to check whether people like your blog or not. I strongly recommend you to create a fan page for your website because i have seen some blogs which are running on power of social networking sites i.e. they receive 80 percent of their traffic from social networking websites.

Build your own toolbar and distribute it to your Blog/Website users :


Alexa Toolbar creator
Alexa also provides you a tool to create a toolbar for your website, so if like then you can create a toolbar for your website and distribute to your users this will help you and your users to be connected to each other.

Create toolbar for your website.

Update February 2, 2015

Now Alexa does not offer Toolbar Creator 

Write unique content :

Creating unique posts is always helpful, if your blog has unique content then Google will definitely find it and place it on top positions. As we all know that the posts on the first page of Google have more chances of being click by a user, who is searching for a specific content. Hence you can say that unique content is a key to success, this means by writing unique content you can get more traffic which can help your website to achieve good Alexa ranking.

Create your website for national and international users :

Last but not the least, always try to create a website for national as well as international users. As Alexa calculate both national and international ranking for your blog/website, so its good for you to create a website that attract both national and international users.

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1 comment:

  1. Alexa ranking is a new information for me.Thank you for this information. In the initial stage you had given the various aspects of Alexa ranking.

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