1. Download the Alexa toolbar. Good news is that there is one for Firefox and IE too. But let it trouble you by its presence. You can hide the menu from the toolbar and the graph from the status bar, so that only the rank stays alive. I suggest you to leave this open, because you can also use this is a phishing measure.

Assume, you get a mail from papal (or at least you thought so, it was from papal) when you open the new link, the Alexa ranking of the site is not going to a three digit number. So you get that the site is a fake one.

2. Alexa redirect really works wonders. (it did do really well for me). I would not suggest this to everyone, because it has got its other sides. The trick is to use a link as a redirect, look below for more. You have to use the second link, instead of the first in all your links in the pages. You may benefit, if user clicks many times in your site. You should put redirect before archives , top posts, and almost everything.

new post

some link

Warning : This does improve your alexa ranking, but may have other side effects from google bot. When the bot crawls your page, it sees the link is to the alexa page and not your own site. Remember your side is passed as a parameter to the alexa redirect site. I strongly suggest to investigate, before using alexa redirect. Hence the bot may fail to see your internal links and may not cache them. Even if it caches them, they are not tagged to your site. Here is a small guide to make things better.

3. Download the alexa gadget. this stats your rank and other details of your alexa ranking. The best thing about this widget is that alexa promises that a alexa count is made every time a user (you included ) clicks on this widget. This works on a 24 basis.

4. If you have a website, you must also submit your details to alexa. This would need a email with the same name as the website. Blogspot users cannot do this.

Hope this helps. If you can benefit by improving your alexa rank, please do let me know at least by a comment.

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Alexa ranking is one of the major ranking system provided by amazon.com. It only measured the amount of visitors if user visited a website with alexa toolbar installed.

Here is the definition of Alexa Traffic Rank provided by Alexa :

"The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for
all sites on the Web on a daily basis."

It is also important for the webmasters, advertisers and ad networks to increase the alexa ranking. It will help to a ad network or advertiser to get good rate for advertising a banner or text-link and also increase the bargaining power.

Some useful tips to increase your Alexa Rank :

1) Encourage your friends and others like blog readers, webmasters and visitors to use alexa toolbar. Add link to the page of alexa that explains about alexa ranking and dowload instructions.
2) Install alexa toolbar and make your website as default home page for all browsers in your office and on your pc. It will be useful if work on dynamic IP addresses.
3) Write about Alexa and its importance in your blog or article section in your website.
4) Write on very important topic like domain or SEO related to webmasters.
5) Post your article to social book marking websites.
6) Join community forum and be the part of webmaster topic and add your website in your signature.
7) Use digg, myspace and stumbleupon to increase more traffic to your website. Content should be attractive.

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