How to boost your Alexa traffic ratings for Free

For anyone that doesn’t know Alexa is owned by Amazon.com and is a website that provides free information on traffic levels for websites.

So how does it work? Alexa generates a traffic rank for a website based on the number of visits and page view the website receives from internet browsers that have the Alexa toolbar installed, the higher the Alexa rank is the more traffic the website has.

You may have noticed the major flaw with Alexa in the last paragraph; the Alexa page rank is determined only from internet browsers with the toolbar installed, there are millions of computers that don’t have the toolbar installed that may visit a website which won’t be counted.

Unfortunately if you own a website and are considering selling online advertising many advertisers use Alexa to get a rough idea how busy your website is and therefore how much advertising on your site is worth, so it is a good idea to try and improve your Alexa page rank.

Getting started with Alexa

Getting started with Alexa is very easy visit the Alexa website and download the toolbar onto your computer. Run the install and the toolbar will be installed on your internet browser, it is compatible with both Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Tip; if you use the google toolbar as well you may not want to insall yet another toolbar, so you may want to consider installing the firefox extension SearchStatus extension which combine both elements from the Alexa andf Google toolbar.

Easy ways you can increase you Alexa Rank for FREE.

If your Alexa Rank is in the millions then you will def want to consider implementing some of the suggestions below, if your rank is in the 100’000 or above mark then well done forget the reading the rest of this you obviously know what you are doing!

• Install the Alexa toolbar and set your website as your browser homepage.
• Put up an Alexa rank widget on your website, you will receive a few clicks from that everyday.
• Ask people you know to install the Alexa toolbar on their web browser and set your website as their homepage.
• Write an article about Alexa on your website. Bloggers like to hear about ways to increase their Alexa traffic rank so will probably link to your article if it is well written.
• Try using an Alexa redirect on your website for one of your internal links like so - http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.peazyshop.co.uk. This redirect will count as a unique view of your site and help your Alexa rank.
• Use Digg, Dugg, Del.icio.us and Stumbleupon. All of these will bring your traffic, mostly untargeted traffic but it will help your Alexa Rank.
• Post in forums. Posting in forums is a good idea and I don’t mean spamming it, by becoming a trusted and valued member of a forum and by having an Alexa redirect link in your signature will help your rank when people click on it.

Other information on Alexa

Remember that Alexa is not worth anything on its own, most people don’t have Alexa installed and the people who do are generally webmasters which is why most of the sites with very high Alexa ranks are webmaster related sites. Therefore I wouldn’t loose any sleep over Alexa do your best and the most important thing is to have good quality relevant useful content on your website which is the best way to increase traffic to your website.

Example

I have had the Alexa widget on my site for a couple of months now and have seen my Alexa rank jump up nearly 700′000 places, see below.