How To Boost Your Alexa Ranking In One Easy Step
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In my previous post I introduced and discussed the importance of the website traffic monitor AlexaRank. Whether you value your Alexa traffic ranking or not there are definite advantages to having a high AlexRank. Many webmasters and business folk look at the AlexaRank as a reasonable representation of a site’s traffic. If you are selling advertising from your site the more “proof” you can demonstrate of your traffic – and in AlexaRank’s case it is an independent valuation of your traffic, which adds credibility – the more likely advertisers will come knocking at your door willing to give you some of their ad budget.
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It’s well known that many text link brokers, such as Text-Link-Ads.com (aff), factor in AlexaRank when determining the price to charge advertisers for links on your site or blog. The higher you raise your AlexaRank the more you potentially can earn, and this reason alone is enough to pay attention to methods to increase your AlexaRank.
An AlexaRank Experiment
AlexaRank is calculated using the Alexa Toolbar. Alexa takes the browsing data from the millions of people using the Toolbar and calculates the traffic ranking of each site. As Alexa states, while low traffic sites are harder to gauge accurately, once a site reaches a 100,000 or less ranking the accuracy of the measure increases. Hence if you can top a 10,000 AlexaRank, or even 1000, the credibility of that ranking is increased.
As Blaine Moore pointed out in a comment made to my previous AlexaRank article, it is easy to – as he put it – “game” the AlexaRank if you have a tool that checks AlexaRank installed on your computer, and that doesn’t have to be just the toolbar, it can be for a FireFox extension like SearchStatus, which I recently installed on my browser. These tools send data to Alexa, and when Alexa receives any data about your surfing habits it will raise the traffic rankings for the sites you provide data for – and if you visit your own sites often you can raise your ranking.
I can’t verify that installing any AlexaRank checking tool will help your own site’s AlexaRank and to be honest after I installed SearchStatus I did not notice any significant change in my AlexaRank at my blogs. It wasn’t until I conducted a different experiment that I noticed more verifiable proof of a technique to increase your site’s AlexaRank.
How I Increased My AlexaRank By More Than 25%
Here’s how my logic went – I figured the toolbar and other AlexaRank checking tools tell Alexa my browsing habits, which is fine, but I’m only one person visiting my blogs (albeit I do it many times each day). What I really want is a way to tell Alexa about every person who visits my blogs, not just me. In order to do this, the Alexa reporting tool needs to be on my blog and downloaded by every person who visits my site each time they visit.
The obvious answer was to install an Alexa Site Widget on each of my blogs. The widget looks like this:
If you click it you will be taken to my current Alexa traffic ranking data. You can also find the live widget in the sidebar of all my blogs.
After installing this widget on to my blogs, within the next few days my rankings increased at least 25%. This blog, Entrepreneurs-Journey.com, was sitting around the 19,000 AlexaRank mark and within seven days had dropped to just above 15,000 as I type this. Prior to this gain my AlexaRank increases had been slow and steady, but never as significant as this in a short period of time, unless of course I earned a traffic spike from some other site(s) linking to me.
I noticed similar results at SmallBusinessBranding.com and the BlogTrafficSchool.com Blog too, which makes me almost 100% certain that installing the Alexa site widget will increase your AlexaRank.
This makes complete sense, as my thinking above explains. If every visitor to your blog downloads the Alexa site widget when they visit your site, then Alexa has data on every visitor you have, at least every web reader, I don’t think RSS readers count since they never download the widget unless they go to your site. You might call this “gaming” your AlexaRank, but in this case I don’t think that’s an apt description – installing the site widget in fact helps to give Alexa enough data to provide your true AlexaRank, as opposed to what it thinks it should be based on the data it has from it’s toolbar users.
If you sell advertising from your blog or website then you should care about your AlexaRank. If that is the case then installing the Alexa site widget is a must. It takes only a few seconds and could significantly improve your current AlexaRank.
Click here to get instructions on installing the Alexa site widget.
If any other bloggers or webmasters out there notice an increase in their AlexaRank after following my instructions and installing a site widget I’d love to hear about it. While I’m confident my results at three different blogs is good enough proof, it doesn’t hurt to have more examples to back up the hypothesis. Please leave a comment and tell me how your AlexaRank improves.
Yaro Starak
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[...] Aber ich bin auf einen sehr einfachen Trick aufmerksam geworden. Yaro Starak hat darauf hingewiesen ( den sollte man übrigens regelmäÃg lesen! ). Alexa bietet uns an, ein so genanntes Site Widget auf unserer Seite anzeigen zu lassen. Dort wird unser Alexa Rank dann angezeigt. Und das richtig tolle daran: Alexa zählt anscheinend jeden Besucher, der dieses Widget angezeigt bekommt. [...]
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[...] Yaro Starak of Entrepreneur’s Journey has posted How To Boost Your Alexa Ranking In One Easy Step. All you have to do is copy the javascript code for the Alexa Widget and paste it somewhere in the code for your site. The idea is that Alexa will then know about your traffic by the number of times this widget is loaded. [...]
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[...] A week ago, after reading Yaro’s article about improving alexa ratings I went ahead and installed the widget on my websites. [...]
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[...] How To Boost Your Alexa Ranking In One Easy StepI bookmarked the above blog post because I found it to be interesting and I wanted to run a little experiment. I’ve known for quite a while why my server logs would show a huge amount of traffic, yet Alexa would only reflect a percentage of the traffic this site receives. So, I decided to try this little experiment and see if it helped syncronize my Alexa standings with my server logs. I’ve only had Alexa’s widget on this site for a few days, but I’m already starting to see a positive change. It’s still too early to definitively say whether this works or not, but it will be interesting to watch the experiment unfold. [...]
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[...] been a lot of debate over whether or not the Alexa widget increases rankings. I saw that Yaro had a post which explained how the putting the widget in his sidebar DID increase his rankings by 25%. [...]
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[...] Adnan from Blogtrepreneur has written a field report entry in the forums regarding his experiment with the Alexa Widget on his blog in response to my previous article – How To Boost Your Alexa Ranking In One Easy Step. [...]
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[...] by the way is not accurate). Alexa rank can improved using this simple techniques like this and this. In my opinion, breaking into Alexa top 85k is not a big [...]
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[...] notice that I’ve added the Alexa widget to the sidebar. This was taken from a tip I read, which claimed that by simply adding this widget, a 25% increase in my Alexa ranking was possible. [...]
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[...] Mark from PotentMark.com alerted me to a post over at Entrepreneurs Journey entitled how to boost your Alexa ranking in one easy step. The author goes through several of the issues with Alexa and eventually introduces a widget you [...]
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[...] started looking at Alexa Rank when Yaro at Entrepreneur’s Journey posted on the effect the Alexa Rank Widget was having on his blog. His theory was that having the widget there was causing an increase in his [...]
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How To Boost Your Alexa Ranking In One Easy Step?…
Here’s an interesting blog I discovered the other day called the Entrepreneur’s Journey. The specific post that caught my eye was How to Boost Your Alexa Ranking In One Easy Step. Yaro increased his Alexa ranking by over 25% (from 19,000 t…
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The Controversy Over The Alexa Widget…
A few days ago I wrote an article entitled How I Increased My Alexa Ranking By 2.5 Million In 7 Days. In the article my very first recommendation was for everyone to put the Alexa stats box widget on their site so that Alexa would count all the traffi…
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Some good observations there Yaro. My previously mentioned article (linked) garnered me a small spike.
Are you sure it was not the fact that people found you looking for an article on increasing alexa rank? Certainly 100% of people looking for this would have the toolbar installed?
I just threw the widget onto my site to see how big a jump I can get from the bottom of the pile. Starting stat= 3,969,897 on 12/12/06. Will keep you posted.
Btw, Yaro; thanks for all the advice over the last year. You have helped to steer me to start my own biz once I retire from the military next year, rather than fall into the corporate grind…
I’ve seen similar tips elsewhere and decided to do the same thing a while back. However my ranking went down over the next week – so I got rid of it and things went back up again…. very odd.
Perhaps having it helps bring the ranking up to a level that is realistic for sites that alexa previously under ranked and brings down to a realistic value the sites which it over ranks….
just a theory
Dave – considering I did this on three of my blogs and they all had the same reaction and I find it hard to fathom that it could be because of a spike in Alexa toolbar users visiting the blog – but you never know!
Darren – Hmm, interesting result. You may in fact be right which doesn’t necessarily contradict my premise in this article – like you said it could actually adjust the ranking to what it actually should be, which is necessarily an increase like in your case.
Tom – Hey no worries, glad I could help out. I’d love for you to post your comment in my guestbook sometime – it’s in my forums here.
Thanks for the tip. My Alexa ranking has been slowlt growing over the past few months…maybe this method you introduced will speed up the process. Nice info.
My main site is on myspace, so I can’t really tell from Alexa if it’s rated higher or not. I’ve tried adding friends and what not; but since it is a site I don’t care as much about advertising as I do about customer conversion. Any suggestions?
I meant to say it is a site for business, not for advertising. That was a typo, haha
OK Yaro, I have taken your advice. I placed the widget on a site that gets over 20k uniques a day. The audience is non tech and don’t usually have the Alexa Toolbar installed. The site is not even in the top 100k Alexa sites (With 20k uniques a day, this should demonstrate how inaccurate the alexa rank really is).
I’ll update you and let you know if there is any increase. By your methodology, there should be a VERY sharp spike.
I installed the widget with the same idea in mind. But one side problem I noticed is that Alexa goes down from time to time, and in some of my blogs caused a fatal slowdown.
I have just installed it on my blog also and I will see how it helps my ranking.
Just wondering if the slowdown in grabbing dynamic Alexa data
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It’s too bad they don’t have smaller versions of the widget. The slowdowns that Mariano mention are also a concern.
Hi Yaro,
, and then some.
After reading this article, I nstalled the widget on my site. I tried this in the past without any success. While I really wanted to prove you wron, sorry for being so blod, I noticed today that Alexa rating for my site have improved over last 24 hours. About 25% up. Is it possible to happend overnight? If it is I guess you are right after all
Great job! I love reading your blog!
Ok, after 24 hours I am all the way down to 3,968,947, a change of near 1000. So, in 4000 days or so I will be number 1!
Interesting experiment. I looked at the Alexa rank for my blog and it is not reflecting the real traffic I am having (I can compare this to other sites of mine in regards to traffic). So, I installed the widget just a few moments ago. I am curious to see how that works out.
Christoph
Interesting… I’ll have to give that a try…
What is the widget all about?
I’m going to give this a try.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll get back to you if it works!
I think the widget did help one of my sites since it was at about 120,000 and now I’m at about 105,000. However, my pageviews did increase slightly as well.
It seems like most people are reporting back an improvement in their AlexaRank after installing the widget. I wouldn’t call this conclusive, but I think it’s an experiment most bloggers should try.
Hey Dave Davis – I’m curious which site you have with 20K unique daily visitors you are testing the Alexa widget on?
With that much traffic you should quickly rocket up to at least the top 10,000, if not the top 1000 sites according to Alexa depending on the topic of course.
Hey Yaro, I’d rather not say but I can confirm my personal findings.
I uninstalled the Alexa toolbar before I installed the widget. I also removed the search status plugin.
Traffic to the site before and around the same time of your post was an average of 19221 unique visitors a day. Confirmed by adbrite stats and awstats. This has remained the same.
The site is hovering on the 100k alexa rank.
I installed the widget. After 2 days, the alexa ranking has decreased (ie, alexa says traffic has dropped). It has remained the same.
http://www.redflystudios.com/ gets an average 2k uniques a day and has a much better alexa rank than the site in question.
I am going to do some more tests and publish something official (Something I can show the URLs for). With all due respect I honestly think your observations are faulty.
Thanks for the tips Yaro, will take your advice and see if improves my Alexa rank.
I installed the widget after reading this and my rankings have improved since. I installed it on just one page of my website (the index.htm). Now I’m wondering what the results will be if I place it on every page.
Thanks for the tip. I’m going to give it a shot and see if we move up from around 50,000
I forget .. why do I want to increase my Alexa ranking again? I know that Text-Link-Ads rejects me because I have no Alexa ranking, and putting buttons on these sites to increase my ranking from 5,265,565 to 3 million probably won’t get me text-link-ad approval.
Maybe for a joke over XMAS I’ll put up those long 468px wide banners with the graphs on them that have those big letters “NOT IN TOP 100,000″ .. and I’ll add a footnoe .. But, at least I’m 1 in 5 million!
I tested this with one of my sites, which gets about 1500 visitors per day. Before the test Alexa rank was 516,000 and after 2 days it jumped to 496,311.
I will monitor it for a week or two and post the results.
Hey Yaro. I installed the widget and posted about this on my blog and after about two days I saw around a 10% improvement in my Alexa rank. So far, so good. Thanks for the tip!
I installed the widget a couple of days ago.
My ranking was in the 850k and now its around 815k
Thanks Yaro. I hope to continue to improve my site and this will hopefully my page rankings.
After six days down to 2,320,665. A change of 1,649,232! Btw, I took the alexa box off my site 3 days ago and my rank accelerated! (coincidence?)
Hmmm. Intresting test. It seems some of you report increase in rankings and yet others are going down.
Any updates from anyone that have tried it. I might add it mine and test it and see.
Yaro-
It’s tips like this that keep me reading your work!
Thanks for this. I’m installing the widget asap.
My computer’s anti-virus/anti-spyware software won’t let me install the Alexa toolbar, so I’ve been experimenting with having a separate (older) dedicated computer set up just to run the Alexa toolbar and to monitor my site.
I had problems with the earlier “models” of Alexa buttons that tracked ranking. The things were not current and didn’t show up on some browsers.
Regarding the toolbar itself: I noticed that when I don’t run the toolbar, my Alexa ranking rises like helium! (Bad). A few months ago, my Alexa ranking was down to the low 300,000s, but about 2 months with the dedicated computer off, my ranking is back up about 1.4 million. Yikes! Needless to say, I’ve turned the machine back on. But I’m jazzed about the widget.
Thanks for all you do.
Amy Biddle
Excellent advice about the Alexa widgets! I’ve been incorporating a number of SEO tactics and improved from about 3,333,800 to about 1,987,000. Then I read your post about the widgets and included them in all 1,140 content pages and in less than a week I’m down to 869,846.
Coincidence, I don’t think so. Thanks very much for the tip!
I just installed the Alexa widget at my site:
http://splunks.com
It is a fairly new site with alot of traffic due to mostly word of mouth. It will be interesting to see if a good alexa ranking occurs. I’ll post back here and let everybody know.
I put the widget on my site on jan.2
if I click on it and go to alexa traffic ranking it says I have dropped quite a bit, from 2.4 million something to 800 thousand something. But the widget seems to have not updated since jan. 2. Anyone have any insight on how often the widget updates? at the page to get the widget it says updated daily. What gives?
No need to debate. I asked Alexa and posted their response here:
Alexa Buttons DO NOT Help Alexa Rankings
I have been running the widget for almost a month now and have improved my rankings from 850k to ~700k
Its a good start. Thank you Yaro!
Your suggestion that the widget improves your ranking is definitely accurate, but I don’t think it is because all the visitors to your site are downloading the toolbar.
I would be willing to bet that while Alexa is not getting their ranking from the javascript widget on your page, they are improving their algorithm by monitoring your site hits and comparing it to their estimate. As more people add the widget I would bet that the algorithm improves and may end up improving your ranking.
I, like most everyone else, want a higher alexa ranking for obvious reasons. I just installed the alexa widget on my home page at http://www.mookhunter.com, and we’ll what happens over the next few weeks. Thanks for the advice Yaro, and I’m impressed with your ranking by the way!
I don’t like putting all of my eggs in one basket, so I don’t. I rely on a little SEO, some keywords, have the alexa toolbar on my home pc’s, use another free service you can find on my home page at http://www.mookhunter.com, and buy affordable traffic packages too. You can boost your alexa ranking for FREE also with the service on my home page. If you want to boost your alexa ranking free, as I have boosted mine, then visit http://www.mookhunter.com’s home page and click on the boost your alexa rating link to try it out.
Any of you feel free to contact me any time. I’d be happy to share anything that may help, and would welcome the same in return!
Thanks, Ryan
Yaro,
I just wanted to thank you for the advice! Within just 48 hours, from placing the alexa widget on my home page, my one week alexa rank on http://www.mookhunter.com jumped up from 1,755,000 to 1,351,000. My theory, NO.. the alexa widget does not enhance, improve, or do anything extra for you. However, think of it this way, your site gets 10,000 visitors a day, only 40% (10 million globally) have the alexa toolbar installed, so that’s what you get credit for. Having the widget on your site makes sure that every single visitor is counted, providing a much more realistic snapshot of your real traffic! Hence, the improvement I’ve seen in less than 48 hours.
Thanks again Yaro!!!
http://www.mookhunter.com
Just an update on http://splunks.com. After 15 days of the widget installed on my homepage, and 3 days installed sitewide, I can report my Alexa ranking dropping from 4,434,000 to 684,640. I am pretty sure it was the widget’s ability to calculate my visitors, (I get about 500-1000 unique visitors a day) that made my alexa rank better. Just wanted to clarify that. I am now of the belief that you have to have the traffic AND a way to communicate it to Alexa.
I it installed on this blog and it is showing some slight improvement.
The thing I hate about advice like this (although It’s much appreciated, Yaro!) is that if everyone on the internet does this….theoretically there would be no change in ranking across the board and your blog would end up right where it was… The only surefire way to go from a low rank to a high rank is to ACTUALLY increase the number of people who visit your page and not just the numbers reported.
Yaro, thanks for all the advice over the past year. I have been batting around the idea of striking out on my own for some time. As of January 1, 2007 I launched my site and hoping to create some value for my customers.
Thanks for posting continued pertinent content. Your advice has helped out tremendously and is always a source of inspiration.
jason
http://www.DogAdoptionGuide.com
I just added the widget on my site, http://www.modhalo.net, which currently has an Alexa Rank of 2,202,592. We’ll see what happens.
Sorry for the umm… double comment, but does placement of the widget matter? I entered modhalo.net for my URL when setting up the widget, yet people visit the forums for the most part. Should I put it on both?
Phil – AlexaRank is based on the domain name so it doesn’t really matter what page you put it on, but I suggest just your index.
Cheers, Yaro
great tip. Im putting this up on my sites now
Just an update on my progress. I am now 200k+ higher then what I was 1-2 months ago.
Thank you Yaro. SharePoint Buzz is thriving because of you!
Hi Yaro and team!
It is sad that that antispy, firewalls all seems to hunt Alexa. I appreciate Alexa ranking service very much as the only alternative to google.
Unfortunately with this “Alexa-spy” Campaign the tool is loosing audience. In this respect suggestion of Yaro is great! Thank you.
Cheers
My rank has moved up about 5,000 so far. I now sit at 2,197,971 after two days.
I’ll incorporate in my blog soon.Before all iwant to thank you for saying me the trick.
Wow! In just one day I jumped from 2,197,971 to 1,393,960! About 1,400,000 spots!
I’m holding off adding the toolbar. Why? Because it is so ugly. Why can’t they make a tiny widget and leave at that? LOL.
Alexa’s ability to tell you ANYTHING about YOUR, GENUINE visitors is precisely zero.
you may be interested in peter’ s post (director of google research)
http://norvig.com/logs-alexa.html
Arnim,
Give us a break. Why one should ask Coke about Pepsi? Do you really expect honest reply?
Can you follow analogy?
By working with your Alexa Traffic Ranking you are sure to boost your traffic in no time. As your Alexa web traffic ranking improves, you should see more traffic in no time.
I have just set up a site and am testing this method
The hardest part about Alexa is trying to figure out how many people who visit your site have the Alexa Toolbar installed. Alexa Surf see’s many webmasters in forums asking the question How many alexa toolbar visitors does it take to have a lower ranking?
My ranking was going down at a very fast pace. TO maintian the growth i was looking for some tips to get my website ranked better. Maybe this method will work. Let see.
Yaro,
Thanks for the tip. The one thing I have never been able to do is to get my Alexa Rank to increase quickly.
Well give it a try!
Joe Pisano ~MUSicTECHnology.net
http://www.mustech.net
Ouch! I installed the Alexa toolbar and one of my sites plunged 150,000 places. That hurts! My blog is currently sitting at PR3, so at least the news isn’t all bad!
Matt – When you say plunged do you mean the number decreased? If that is the case then that is a good thing!
Alexa rank boosting with widget: The Yaro’s idea that really works!!!
We would like to present the concrete and objective test of the Yaro idea of Alexa rank boosting with widget. Please NOTE that this post is NOT RELATED to any sort of artificial Alexa rank boost. So if you are looking for some “fake”
Alexa rank boosting you can quit reading here. Be aware though that things like AlexaSurf or Alexa Booster will actually destroy your rank instead of improving it. With this post we are trying to communicate to webmasters the useful approach of informing Alexa server about actual “real traffic” to your web site that might be quite different from what you have right now with Alexa toolbar user reports only. Originally the approach was introduced by Yaro as you can see above in this BLOG.
INTRODUCTION
In order to improve AlexaRank one can use various
methods. Most of them are based on “fake” artificial traffic creation that Alexa actually WILL PUNISH instead of giving your web some higher rank. We have been looking for a method of informing Alexa about real traffic without fooling Alexa with any “dirty tricks”.
The problem with legitimate Alexa toolbar counting is that many of your site visitors can not even install the Internet Explorer (IE) Alexa toolbar due to multiple antivirus / anti-spam / anti-addware programs that will block Alexa calls (communication with server). Even worst, many internet server providers (ISP) nowadays are using Barracuda and similar firewalls that will not let Alexa toolbar to communicate with its server. As a result Alexa might stay unaware of actual traffic to your site and give you low rank (large number in Alexa ranking scale). In this unfavorable situation one has to search for some way to inform Alexa that actual “REAL” traffic to his web site is much larger than that of “installed” and “communication permitted” Alexa-toolbar users will report back to Alexa server. The method invented by Yaro and described
above in this post seemed to fit our purpose from the initial evaluation.
IDEA OF TEST
The idea of Alexa rank improvement using Alexa widget was tested properly during last 5 month. We promote the web site at
http://www.sciencegl.com
3D graphics
The site has decent traffic that used to be badly evaluated by Alexa for a long time (a couple of years). When we have seen first time the Yaro’s widget idea, we have decided to make thorough test of this approach. Our test is based on correlation pattern analysis between web site equipped with Alexa widget and without it. The idea is very simple: if one can place Alexa widget to his web pages (as suggested by Yaro) for some period of time and then remove it for next period of time, then the historical data of the Alexa ranking in time (as nicely provided by Alexa, BTW) must show some correlation between widget on/off and AlexaRank trend. Repeating widget On/Off several times one can get the definitive prove of the idea. We are not discussing here how actually Alexa ranking evaluation algorithm works, because this is a subject of Alexa internal policy. But we would like emphasize here that we do appreciate Alexa tool-bar in particular and Alexa rank evaluation idea as one of the best and most objective method of web page popularity measurement. EXPERIMENTAL The test was performed by consequent placing and removal of Alexa widget link to a couple of most visited pages on the web site under promotion. Input data for Alexa widget placement on web site:
DATES — WEB SITE WIDGET SITUATION
December 3, 2006 – December 22, 2006 + Alexa widget ON active
December 23, 2006 – January 1, 2007 + Alexa widget OFF removed
January 2, 2007 – February 15, 2007 + Alexa widget ON active
February 15, 2007 – March 5, 2007 + Alexa widget OFF removed
March 6, 2007 – March 25, 2007 + Alexa widget ON active
To get actiual AlexaRank data during this period of time you can enter to Alexa traffic report utility. See traffic rank, press 6 month period to get full picture. Improvement of Alexa ranking is obvious when widget is ON. Alexa boost observed is about 100-50% in terms of AlexaRank value.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
If you are interested in checking of the results you can enter Alexa historical rank data, and watch the traffic rank for ScienceGL site for last 5 month. One can see that correlation between promoted web-site Ranking performance clearly correlates with Alexa widget presence during several test cycles. Large period of time was selected for getting better statistics of the test. It is shown in this report that the idea of using Alexa link actually works. Alexa rank boost with Yaro approach was achieved. The objective prove of the Yaro’s idea is presented here. The results indicate that Alexa is smart enough to give the credit to your web site rank evaluating not only Internet Explorer (IE) AlexaToolbar reports, but also alternative channels of traffic statistics such as widget reports. We assume that other channels of information collection, such as Mozilla Firefox with toolbar SearchStatus from Quirk, AboutThisSite by Gina Trapani also should provide similar AlexaRank increase.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Using occasion we would like to thank Yaro for great idea / suggestion posted in this page above.
this looks like an excellent idea…especially coming from a blogger with an alexa rank of 15,863 according to my firefox plugin. i’ll give it a shot and see what happens over the next week.
This seems like an excellent idea. I’ve always hated Alexa as a measurement of a sites status, but so people take it really serious and you’re almost forced to do so just to stay up with the game.
My Alexa rank is just over 100K right now. I’ll try installing the widget next week, and see how big an improvement it makes.
Thanks for the info
Hey, I have just installed the widget, my alexa rank is over 1,3m right now
I hope it helps me to improve it,
thanks for the info
http://www.frucomerci.com
Well I’ve given it a whirl so let’s see what happens, eh?
Yaro,
I followed your advice and put the alexa widget on my blog a little over a week ago. I forgot to record my exact alexa ranking at the time, but it was a little bit over 149,000. Today is up to 130,193. I think this is probably due mostly to adding the widget, since my traffic has remained fairly steady the last 2 weeks.
Thanks for the tip!
All the best,
George
thanks for this yaro, i’ll give it a try!
Thanks for the tip!
For me, i tend not to embed external resources on my website, as I try to keep the load times as low as possible. If I put this widget in an IFrame, so that page load times is independent of the widgets loading speed, should it still work?
I’ve created a Wordpress Plugin to Improve your Alexa Ranking. It adds the Alexa Redirect prefix to your internal links.
http://www.thebloggable.com/one-step-to-50-improved-alexa-ranking/
I installed it on my site, current ranking is 1,292,454 Lets see if it will rank better in the future.
Sometimes I think the best thing to improve your sites ranking is to write an article explaning how to increase the ranking. Everyone will come in in the hopes of improving their site, only to realize they are just boosting the site of the person writing the article.
Scorch – I think that you are right. In fact: I found such advice somewhere on the Web;)
Another advice was to use alexa redirect. Does it make much sense?
like this (my site):
Guess it does not work that way (alexa redirect is strippd from the comment). Anyway – I’m kind of newbie in alexa ranking stuff so I did have to make above experiment. Sorry.
(my site):
when i started to increase my alexa rank i used the redirect from alexa to my website, and installed the alexa toolbar and would flick through the my pages a few times so alexa know that the pages are there and my alexa increased but that was about 3 months ago and i left it since then and it shot back up again
I think that Alexa has imporved its algo by now so that it doenot make much difference to alexa ranking if you keep on brows through your own pages. Alexa ranking will increase only if the trafic to your site is from users with alexa toolbar installed.
Using alexa redirect URL may decrease site position in search engine results as where ever you leave the link, it will be link for alexa.com and not your own site.
“Using alexa redirect URL may decrease site position in search engine results as where ever you leave the link, it will be link for alexa.com and not your own site.”
AND since Google is much more important than Alexa for driving traffic to sites, this is a good point to remember.
Wow, this post is still getting hits and comments after 9 months! What a great post.
I’ve been obsessed with my alexa ranking for a while- because it was going up by leaps and bounds over the last few weeks and then suddenly stopped.
The ranking has plateaued? I’m going to give it a try this week and see if there is any movement.
http://www.entrepreneur.com.sg
Thanks i’ll be trying this stuff my site is ranked 1.6kk and not moving at all lol!
i have my website google rank 1 in three month and now i am working for making my website high rank in alexa.
oh well, it doesn’t cost anything to try. It seems this works for lot of ppl here! My rank can’t be worse than now anyway, hope it’s going to be changed from now
I only got 12 ranking from Alexa. Its crazy.. I do not know what’s wrong and I do not know what to do now… Argh!
Well .. I wonder who else here wishes they had a “12 ranking from Alexa”. The lower the better Julie Ann!
Unfortunately, that’s Blogger.com’s ranking – not your site – unless I’m mistaken (I had to look!)
Hi Yaro,
I launced a site 1 month ago and managed to get from 10 million to to about 1 million alexa ranking (3m) with 75000 page views. (I’m very excited) The site is steadily growing. I downloaded the alexa toolbar and now am at a weekly avr. of 300.000. I do think my clicks help as i went to Switserland for two weeks and saw my ranking skyrocket in that area. hmmmm
Im hesitant to download the widget right now as it is going well. When the growth stops I will add it on and keep you posted.
Regards,
Anie nonomus
I will try your theory on the Alexa widget tool on my site: http://www.therogueforums.com – currently, we have a ranking of 1,249,027, and this is without any type of professional SEO software or modifications. I will post back in two weeks to give you details of any success.
Great suggestion, either way!
Kindest Regards,
~Ki
I completely agree with you as well. I have had my website up since 2005 and until recently i had never dove into the whole Alexa Rankings thing. After fixing my web site information for the description and imputing key words there and the use of the Alexa Widget on my websites homepage has significantly increased my numbers.
Before Alexa: no data
Initial Alexa information submission: 15.5m
Alexa Widget placed on site: 14.8
week one end: 13.3
week two end: 10.4
week three end: 5.6
and just as of today
end of week four: 3.4m
I’m new to the whole alexa ranking so this seemed like a huge jump of roughly moving up 12.1 million sites or so. Anyways, good reading… have a great day!
~ Pete
http://www.rockoutchicago.com
http://www.windycityrock.com
The New Vista doesn’t support or allow alexa to be installed!
I have the same problem!
Maybe Alexa Engineers have read your article and have changed the calculation method
Before this article my rank was ~1500k. It becomes after 3 weeks ~700k !!! It’s increase ~800,000 rank and it was amazing !!!
Thank You again Mr. Starak
I read this blog about 2 weeks ago and I installed the Alexa widget as suggested. I can definately say..it works! My Alexa rank has shot up just over 300,000…which is about 25%.
So if anyone is keen to improve their ranking…do it!
P.S..Thanks for the tip.
Ok, I put the widget in the footer so it would be site wide 5 days ago. In 5 days our weekly has gone from 1.2 million to 480,000! At this rate we’ll be in the top 100,000 in a few days, give me a few weeks and maybe we’ll start closing in on a 20,000 range.
Great tip!
Ok, a few days since my previous post and we are now in the 200,000 area for the week!
I just added the widget to my site even tho I jumped for more then 100,000 in last week. So it will be hard to say if this did help or not.
Let’s hope for the best!
Great info about Alexa rank will try the widget on my blog
Yaro, I installed Alexa toolbar, but I faced difficulties with FireFox. In fact, it did not start up anymore. Uninstalling did not help because of the registry marks. After days of searching I found the website below. By following those instructions I got rid of Alexa toolbar and was able to start up Firefox normally. So, please be careful. You might have problems with Alexa toolbar just like I had.
http://tinymeme.com/2007/08/alexa-sparky-toolbar-cripples-firefox.html
Hi.. nice tips. I always wondering why they even bother with alexa ranks if they have are not that accurate about it. Well, I give a shot after all. Hopefully it works for me too
I just installed it. I’ll follow up with any changes in my Alexa rating. Currently, end of MAy 2008, my site: http://www.SaleLogic.ca is at 8,822,298
Thanks for the idea:
Mike
I’ve done this exact same thing to increase alexa rankings on some of my sites. Good tip, thanks!
Loading the alexa ranking toolbar as suggested here and the results have been great.
15 July 12.2 million then installed alexa toolbar
17 July 7.6 million
19 July 4.5 million
21 Julyl 3.6 million
23 July 2.814 million
Have now installed the alexa widget box as per recommendation down the left hand side of toolbar (fits in perfectly) and will monitor the results and get back to you.
Thanks for the great ideas. Keep up the great work.
Goodday Mr. Yaro Starak,
Currently i’m doing a study on Alexa Toolbar at my blog http://www.surftin.com,
and what i found is the result in increasing the Traffic Rank is all i can say is successful.
My blog rank has goes down a much better than before i’ve install the toolbar and site widget…
All i can say here is the study is successful and i will show the result the next 1 or 3 days….
Hope you can pay a little visit to my blog and leave a comment there..
Thank You..
Hey, that idea was great. I going to use it and hopefully my rank will go up. All these tips really help cause I just started a blog and have like no traffic. If you would like to help any way, contact me. Thanks.
Check out my site:
http://landofaudio.blogspot.com/
–Land of Audio
anyone heard of upmyrank or alexa booster?
i would like to know many more things related to alexa (i am creating a thesis on this)
Many Thanks
This sounded good, so I installed the widget about 2 weeks ago. Unfortunately I have seen no improvement over that time (in fact my rank has gone down slightly, even though pageviews are up a bit over the 2 weeks).
The general consensus all over the web is that the Alexa ranking system is fatally flawed, so why the heck are we stuck with it, particularly when it is regarded with such importance by advertisers?
I take it all back – a couple days after posting this comment, my rank did go up – by about 30%. And today it’s gone up again slightly. So thanks for the tip – it does work after all!
So I tried the Alexa widget… and it WORKED. My alexa rank went from 599,000 to 495,095 – in less than 3 days. So thank you!
I will give a try and get back to you guys later. Good info.
That’s a very interesting article. I’m going to give this a try. Currently ranked 3,569,506. Let’s hope I can get a 25% boost!
I had a feeling that the alexa widget would boost the rating.
Just searched for a review to make sure and i ended up here.
Thanks for the info
well! Looking at it now! It seems that your alexa ranking has dropped to 205,717 from 15,128. today. what may be the reason?
Wonderful Tips. I will try it out on my website and blogs. Been at the 2 million plus for quite some time now. Need to improve it. Thank you for the info.
The Alexa tool bar isn’t compatable with Windows Vista.
I have noticed a huge difference in my AlexaRank, in the last 3 months, by just taking off all the junk not needed on my site. I went from nearly 2,000,000 down to nearly 400,000. Still not where I would like to be, but a huge increase for the better. I am also working on my http://www.TrailerPartsSupply.com but having seceral issues with it. You might take a look and throw some advise my way. It would be much appreciated.
Great post, I’m glad you titled this post how to ‘boost’ your alexa ranking and not fake it. I find asking your community/blog members or subscribers to download the alexa toolbar and explain to them the benefits of using it, can be a good way to rapidly increase your alexa rank.
I will definitely need to try this site widget method though, thanks.
Cheers
Eric from Wheels and Wood
72+ hours and no change at my end.
Actually at 3.5 days my rating just went from 1,108,573 to 1,144,313 about a 3% change (in the wrong direction).
To clarify, 3.5 days ago I added the widget to my web page.
If you get an increase in Alexa Rank after installing a widget, that would mean that visitors with no alexa toolbar are effectively tracked.
here are some recent reports that widgets works
http://www.jampmark.com/web-site-promotion/using-alexa-site-widgets-to-improve-traffic-ranking.html
Just installed the Alexa widget today (17 Jan 2009)
My ranking is 425,994. It was 1,900,000 3 months ago. Will update you later – thanks for this advice.
Also thank you – while looking, I noticed I’ve just been given a google PR ranking – 3/10 – Yeay!!!!
All the best Yaro,
from Sam
When I wrote in January here’s what I said:
On January 18, 2009 at 8:02 am Sam said:
Just installed the Alexa widget today (17 Jan 2009)
My ranking is 425,994. It was 1,900,000 3 months ago. Will update you later – thanks for this advice.
Also thank you – while looking, I noticed I’ve just been given a google PR ranking – 3/10 – Yeay!!!!
All the best Yaro,
from Sam
Now I am alexa rated 217,234 today. It has been down to 214,000 before. I think we all reach the level we deserve. If I were able to put a lot more articles in there I’d go down. Because 220,000 is very respectable I wear the alexa badge with pride. Not sure it gets me moved up any faster thought to be honest.
All the best
from Sam
I installed Alexa Widget, and now I’m waiting some result. Thanks for your tip!!
My blog http://isladenebz.blogspot.com/ was 27 millionth some eight months ago. I am now 1.5millionth! I did install Alexa but then I thought why validate my blog’s existence when I’m not blogging for money. So I erased it.
I have only a few constant readers and the prime reason they visit me is because I constantly visit them.
I will try to install the widget and see whether it would increase my rank at Alexa. If it does, then Alexa stays. If it doesn’t, I will just concentrate writing for my ten constant readers.
I just want to make sure I got this right… The benefit of a good Alexa Ranking is the ability to show potential affiliates that your site attarcts a lot of traffic? Well, that and the bragging rights
Well I asked everyone on my forum to install the alexa toolbar before, few did it. Our alexa rank increased considerably (got smaller in other words).
Now I will try the widget idea and see if we can move from 165k to in the 30k range.
Thanks for the info btw.
thanx a lot for the info, i installed the widget. lets see if its going to work for me…
I have heard a lot of people talk about alexa rank and they sometimes brag about buying text links. I have also heard that link farms are a bad idea and that you need to link to websites that are the most relative in terms of content. I have my site listed in alexa and my rank is slowly improving. We will have to see what happens. Great post. I just bookmarked it.
As per suggested yaro i installed the widget let see what impact will show.
hmmm 2006 article and alexa widget is not work anymore
and i think alexa is s*cks
With my Alex rank currently in the 16,000,000 range, I need to work at getting a better score. I am going to install the Alexa widget in the lower right section of my web pages. We will have to wait for a few weeks to see the actual results.
Thanks for the tip.
TrailblazerGear.com
Hi there,
I see some people talk of their rank being 16,000,000 etc. How does a person work this out if your site is a subdomain? Is it possible?
Looking forward to hearing.
Thanks
JoMellGroup South Africa
Yaro,
I tested your method, and after 1 week my rank jumped from 3.5 million to less than 1.5 million. I don’t remember exactly, but after about a month I was less than 500,000 ranking, and I’m now at 230,000 give or take. Some of the best advice I’ve ever gotten about blogging is because I’ve signed up for your newsletter. I’ve actually referred a ton of my personal team members to your blog for advice, because I’m not knowledgeable enough to give them the advice myself. Thanks for all of your guidance. I look forward to learning more from you every day.
Jordan Schultz
Thanks so much for the tips! I am definitely looking forward to giving this a shot since I uploaded my Alexa toolbar. I would love to pull up my ranking very quickly.
looking at the comment it seems to be working method, will link exchange and auto surf program helos in boosting alexa rank ?
i read in alexa blog here : http://blog.alexa.com/2007/09/how-to-boost-your-alexa-rank.html
and here it was written widget thing donot boost alexa ranking,
Thanks i will try your tips for Alexa on some of my website and come back with the results. I tried several tips but nothing worked til now
Well i havent yet begun using those tricks, but our site is ranking better and better by the end of every day. I will try to upload the alexa widget soon.
I followed the steps on this and hoping to see results as right now I am currently in Alexa rank 2,871,976 and ranked in the U.S of 580,211. I’ll reply back to this in one week as Alexa has just updated there statistics today and will give the results based on installing this widget on my site.
Thanks,
Steven M.
I just registered with Alexa, I also installed the search bar thing for Firefox and installed the button on my blog. My site recently moved to a new domain and my Alexa rank is still unrated – do you have to wait 3 months before a rank appears?
Thanks for the informative post.
Jade
Before I don’t know what’s the use of putting alexa widget on my blog but I always see this alexa widget on every blogs that I’ve read so I tried and I found out once unintentionally read your blogs and bookmark so I can always read all your tips on blogging.
I agree also that by putting the widget on your site does increase your Alexa rankings, but it didn’t feel accurate, My rankings went up from something like 1,500,000 to 600,000 in a matter of 3 or 4 weeks. According to Google analytics I was averaging around 50 unique hits per day. After looking around various forums, I decided that 50 per day was not enough to get me that ranking.
It also slowed down my page loading, which is more important to me at this level. After I removed it, I felt like a crack addict, I wanted to watch my score 3 or 4 times per day; removing the quick link on my site messed with my head for a bit
but got used to it.
I do check my rankings once in a while, but to be honest, I have site meter on my site which gives me a more accurate detail of how many visits and pageviews per day. whether I get 80 visits per day, and my Alexa puts me at a rank of 5 million or I get 10 hits per day and Alexa ranks me at 1 million, I no longer care so much about the ranking, just the amount of actual exposure I am getting.
While this sounds like a “sure thing”, I’m not 100% convinced it will benefit me personally. As the previous commenter indicated it slowed down his site, I don’t want to risk that especially with Google’s new page speed rules.
I know other webmasters check out my Alexa rank to form a decision whether or not to link to my site; if that is their criteria over content, then I don’t think I want to deal with them.
Thanks for the advice. We’ve now installed the widget on all our pages and we’re currently at about 1 million. Hopefully our charity web portal will now be seen by Alexa and we’ll start seeing an increase of traffic to our free volunteer program.
http://www.isara.org
* I know Alexa won’t increase traffic but one can dream, right?
Thanks i will try your tips for Alexa on some of my website and come back with the results.
OK Yaro I was just about going through this post. My blog is still 1 week old. Is it wise for me to install the widget now or should I wait until I start getting some traffic.