Posted: 4 August, 2011

How Do You Raise Your Alexa Ranking?

Alexa Rankings and how I've Managed to Creep to the Top

Alexa Rankings

Hi guys, so I got an email from somebody saying, how did you get your Alexa ranking so high. I really wasn't even paying attention to my Alexa score, as I've been so busy with other things.

The last time I checked my Alexa I was in the millions. I checked today and I discovered that my Alexa ranking was like 79,424. Now that's not too bad.

I'm happy with that. However what I have discovered is my Alexa is going up like 5,000 every week.

So I did a search for Alexa on the internet, and I have discovered people really are struggling with their Alexa score. Even though I'm not an Alex expert by any means, I thought I would take the time and tell you what it is I have done with my site and maybe you can have the same results.

Here is where my Alexa Ranking Live:

Here is my Alexa Rankings as of June 26, 2011:

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Alexa Rankings Before

Here is where my rankings taken today, August 04, 2011:

Current Alexa Ranking

Here is what I have not done to increase my Alexa Ranking!

Alright so I decided to search the web and see what other sites were saying to do to increase your ranking. Now maybe if I had followed these strategies below, I would be ranked even higher. Again, I still don't feel like I've done all that bad.

There is an Alexa toolbar that is available for download. You should check your site every day via this toolbar. (Nope I didn't do that)
Use Alexa redirection to your own site so for instance, http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?chadnicely.com would redirect to www.chadnicely.com (Nope I didn't do that)
Download the Alexa toolbar and use it every day to visit your own website. Alexa even gives you the ability to co-brand the toolbar with your own logo and give it away. You can download the toolbar here: http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/associatetoolbar.html (Nope I didn't do that)
Ask your website visitors to leave comments and testimonials on Alexas's page for your website (Nope I didn't do that)
UPDATE: I actually started doing this, and it has helped out drastically. Look at the screen shot below

Again, you can do these things if you choose to. It might work out really well for you. However it's nothing I did. That just seems like a bunch of work to me.

Here is What I did, to Increase My Alexa Ranking!

So you guys aren't going to believe this but I did nothing. No really, I didn't put any effort into it, I didn't monitor it, I didn't even know my Alexa ranking was jumping until I received that email. Having said that, let me tell you the little bit I am doing, and maybe you can come up with your own game plan.

Consistent Posting - Guys I try to have a post fed every single day. I don't always succeed but I sure try. It doesn't mean I have to write a post ever day. Sometimes I write 3 or 4 posts at once and have them scheduled to post over the following days. This has made a tremendous impact on my traffic, index rate as well as my Alex ranking.

Optimized Posts - Keyword research is extremely important for ranking and traffic. Ultimately the more ranking and traffic and visitors, the higher your Alex Ranking. I make sure the keyword I am optimizing for has all the right criteria to rank well, and then I use SEOPressor to write all of my posts. That little plug in has saved my butt on more than one occasion.

Click Here to check out SEOPRessor

Create Pages - In addition to posts, I also create pages. I create a page for an anchor keyword. Like "Make Money Online". That is a keyword that is not going away anytime soon. I use posts to talk about current trends, services, or tools in the market. Keep your main keywords on pages and not posts.

Length of Pages & Posts - I Honestly think this is a Big one, that has helped with my Alexa Ranking. IF you notice my posts and pages are very long. I usually try to be at about 1500 words. Why? because the standard that is preached is to have a post that is about 500 words. Right? So I am trying to do everything I can to stand out in Google's eyes, and come off as an authority figure.

Quality, Quality, Quality - Guys, do not suckered into all the PLR content, content spinning, or even autoblogging. Yes even I have reviewed some products in the past dealing with Autoblogging. I have since removed over 100 posts, because of the new Google Panda Algorithm. If you want to be an authority figure and have a high ranking Alexa score, then provide good original content.

Support your Content - This goes without saying guys. Any optimized images that you can add, surveys, user interaction, social networking, embedded videos. It all helps boost your rankings.

Backlinks - I'm sure you all know from reading my posts, that I take backlinking very extensively. Well the same goes for building your Alexa ranking. Backlinking plays a big part in your SEO, Traffic, Viewers, and rankings. There are tons of posts and pages I have done on backlinking. You can even check out my marketing strategies to get a good idea what you can do.

Yeah, I know it's like I told you, I'm not having to put any effort into hardly anything. I'm just doing exactly what Google wants to see, and in return my Alexa rankings are going through the roof.

UPDATE: 09/05/11

As stated above I started collecting reviews and ratings for my website on Alexa. The results have been AWESOME!

Take a look at the screen shot below, I know you might have a hard time reading it word for word. So I have provided the link below the image to take you to that actual page. While your looking at those reviews, please post your own. Good or Bad, I would appreciate it very much

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Alexa Review & Ratings

Click Here For A Closer Look

Now I know you

Now that I have shown you how to raise your Alexa, Can you Help Me?

If you would just take a minute out of your time, and click the image below. This will take you to the Alexa Review for my website. If you like my site, please add some good scores, and maybe put in a good word for me.

This will also be good practice for you because I highly suggest you do the same on your site.

Click Here to Write a Review for ChadNicely.com

To Conclude....

Just be honest, provide good useful content, encourage participation, make sure you have researched the topic your about to write about, and you too can have Alexa rankings go through the roof!