Who doesn't like to rank their website top in all website rankings? Obviously any newbie wants to increase their site’s rank whatever Mozrank, Complete rank, WOT trust rank, Semrush traffic rank etc. Though among these website ranking metrics, we can hear two popular website ranking metrics constantly. Guess what, those are Google page rank and Alexa traffic rank. Why we are careful about these website measures is solely depending on many reasons. Google page rank is for evaluating a page’s or site’s rank, which means if you have quality content and also your competitor have another quality content with same primary keyword, then page rank would be the main factor to rank the which page top rather than another. Alexa rank is different from Google’s page rank, since it doesn't matter to SEO status of your site. Actually Alexa ranking is just another metric to measure the website value. Though Alexa rank is very important in some cases such as finding advertisers, guest bloggers etc. In my last post I covered how Alexa rank works. If you missed that post, I suggest you to check it out.
Now let’s enter into our topic, how to increase Alexa rank quickly. As you noticed, our website YourTBox gained good Alexa rank within short time period. Actually it’s not hard to improve Alexa rank well. I don’t understand why webmasters and bloggers take it as a difficult work to increase the Alexa ranking. Here are sure working tips and tricks which I tested and got good results. You too can make use of them to increase Alexa ranking of your website.
Write Lengthy Content, but should excite people to read them
Where is not talking about quality? Everywhere and every occasion, quality is foremost than others, quantity. Without having quality content, you cannot increase the number of unique visitors or number of returning visitors. These numbers make more than 50% of majority of page views your website receive. So consequently the page views per visitor and unique visitor will be high. While quality content increase the number of unique visitors for your website, lengthy or amount of words increase the time per visit, which is absolutely an important measure of understanding the user engagement of your site and to know who are your readers, do they like to your writing style and content you provide. Plus, when increasing the time per visit metric, Google will know that you provide quality content so it will rank your web pages rather than other rubbish posts.
An Alexa ranking report consists the average time per visitor and also page views per visitor, so always try to give good things to your reader without low quality content, since it will decrease the bounce rate and increase the page views per unique visitor. One trendy post could increase the Alexa rank quickly.
Consistently update your website/blog
If you've a blog, then engage in blogging consistently. If you have a website, then create an Addon domain, which is either a Blog or knowledge base, and then update it regularly, since updating is one of the important factors to survive in online. Have you ever seen a web page which is published in 2000 or before in the in front page (first page) of Google or any other search engine for a particular keyword? I think you don’t. Not only people, Google also loves to updating sites, If you write an in-depth article with proper SEO integration, we say your primary keyword is “ Link building strategies”, surely your post page would rank on the first page, if you have done all things correctly. I have tested and seen this many times. I don’t tell you that you should post one post per day. If you’re affordable, it’s very good to post once per day, since more than 9200 blog posts are published every day. So one post per day might be a low number compared to amount of posts published in a day. Anyway as you want to increase Alexa rank dramatically, update your blog every day. I suggest you to edit one or two old posts, since it’s worthwhile in another way. In these days consistent blogging is very important to retain your regular readers, else they didn’t subscribe to your blog. If you don’t blog consistently, try to gain more subscribers to your blog, since it’s very useful in future to inform your loyal readers that you have published a new post.
Increase Traffic:
You might have quality content and also might be blogging daily basis. However unless your blog doesn’t receive traffic, how does your Alexa ranking increase? To inform Alexa that your website, blog receive certain traffic and report them, you have to get some traffic especially their browsers have Alexa toolbar. In my last post, I declared you how Alexa traffic ranking accurate as the Alexa ranks. To more accurate your Alexa rating, you need to have a good Alexa ranking. To get a good rank, it should receive enough traffic either search engine, social media and through other sources.
Increasing your traffic rank can be done by following various methods and using different tactics. Some methods you’d do for increasing the traffic is shortly explained below.
Increasing your traffic rank can be done by following various methods and using different tactics. Some methods you’d do for increasing the traffic is shortly explained below.
- Submit your site to search engines. Do first things first. Make sure your site is accessible to search engine bots. Then spend a few minutes to submit your website to search engines. For a long term, you can submit your site to webmaster tools like Google webmaster tools, Bing webmaster tools, Baidu webmaster tools and Yandex webmaster tools. This is very useful to see how your content perform in search results.
- Make your Blog search engine friendly. Properly use SEO Meta tags, optimize images for search engines. Apply for Google authorship which increase click-through-rate(CTR) from 15%-35%.
- Make use of social media and web 2.0 sites to gain more inorganic traffic. Create your site’s profile pages on these social networking sites. This will not only increase your website’s traffic, also will build up the online presence and then more exposure for every post you shared with.
- Start your list building campaign to receive more genuine target traffic. Obviously Email marketing is today’s most popular method to get done many things, since it has a good conversation rate compared to other sources. Try to get significant subscribers from your site.
- Increase referral traffic by making guest blogging, forum posting, blog commenting, answering questions etc. If you’re affordable to use PPC marketing to gain some good target traffic, then do it. This will surely increase your site’s Alexa rank, since you receive Alexa backlinks through.
Engage your readers to share your posts on social media
Why do you write your regular blog post and click on “Publish” button without having a look at your post? Why don’t you ask for your readers to share your articles on social media? They would be surely happy to share them on their favorite social networks, Faceook, Google plus, LinkedIn, Vkontakte and why not twitter. Wait… Do you think that they will manually log in to their social accounts and then post your article among their friends? No, It couldn't be. So add some social sharing widgets to your blog. Floating social sharing buttons are more visible rather than other fixed buttons. Adding share buttons below of post title will also increase the social shares, if they didn’t read your full article. Undoubtedly social media is a viral traffic booster. Recurring traffic to your blog through social media is absolutely increasing your Alexa rank quickly, since you will get good amount of social media backlinks either Doffolow or nofollow. Don’t worry Alexa count these whole root domain backlinks, whether they’re nofollow or dofollow.
Directly listing of your site
Many web directories have high Moz rank and Domain Authority rank, so submit your site to these web directories and get quality backlinks. Alexa will receive the information what where your site will be linked in and its Alexa rank etc. Then since next day you could see a big increase of your Alexa rank. I know this is time consuming and tedious. However give some hours to submit your site to quality directories. I have tested this and have recognized that listing the sites on the web and blog directories also help to improve the Alexa rank.
Install Alexa Toolbar
You’d already have heard about this. Installing the Alexa toolbar or any Alexa extension from various 25,000 extensions help you to transfer data to Alexa. Whenever you visit your website, every visit will count. Make sure you have installed Alexa toolbar on your browser and click on it to find the Alexa rank of your site. You can install Alexa toolbar from this official Alexa page.
Encourage your visitors to use Alexa Toolbar
Yes, why do you not ask for your readers to install the Alexa toolbar on their browsers? Whenever they visit your website or blog, Alexa is alerted that another page view your site received from certain visitor. The best way to tell all of the readers that to installing the Alexa toolbar is write an article about Alexa rank or Amazon company. In your post mention about Alexa traffic rank and suggest them to install a toolbar or extension.
Create custom alexa toolbar using alexa toolbar creator
Now Alexa enabled to create custom toolbars by using their toolbar creator. The benefits of this are high, since it has some features which you can use to add custom links, social network links and more. You can ask for your readers to install your custom Alexa toolbar on their browsers and connected with your site. This will increase the number of unique visits also Alexa rank fast without subsidence.
Try to get more webmasters, bloggers and marketers to your website/blog
You might see that many of websites and blogs which post articles for webmasters and bloggers have good Alexa rank. What could the reason be to this happen? The main reason is all or majority of them have installed the Alexa toolbar on their browsers. If you posted a tutorial like creating Google authorship or enabling Twitter card, they would remain on your site at least five minutes. This report will be sent to Alexa instantly, since they all are webmasters and bloggers. So, more exposures of your website will be sent through these people.
Put and Alexa Rank widget on your website/blog
This is another trick to increase Alexa ranking. By displaying Alexa rank widget on your site, people might click on it to know more about your site’s traffic statistics. So once someone visits your website’s statistics property of Alexa, it will count and so you’ll see an increment of your site’s Alexa rating. Still many websites and blogs display Alexa rank widget, not only for showing their authority and popularity, but also to increase the Alexa traffic.
Claim verify your website/blog at Alexa
Generate quality backlinks to your website
Google notes about your site as the amount of dofollow links linking to your site. They evaluate those links and then supply a value for your site one to ten, which we know as the Page rank. Although Google only follows dofollow links, Alexa follow those all links which are linking to your site. So increase the number of links by engaging link building industry. When other web pages add links to your website, Alexa will be noticed that your site is linked from another web page. So Alexa algorithms will evaluate the links and then increase the Alexa rank of your site as its value and amount of links. Don’t forget to check your site’s Alexa rank after creating some links. This will prove you how Alexa evaluates backlinks.
Use social bookmarking sites for higher increase alexa traffic rank
Sound weird? View Alexa traffic statistics of any website, blog which gets more social shares. Then see the site linking in section. You could see that there are pages where a particular site is linking to. You would probably see one or more social bookmarking sites are in that list. Some examples of popular social bookmarking sites are Reddit, StumbleUpon, Delicious, scoop.it, Plurk. Why Alexa shows these sites in the top of the site linking to section. Because backlinks from social bookmarking sites is really valuable. So why don’t you share your articles on these sites after publishing your post? I recommend using these valuable free tactics to increase Alexa rank and quality backlinks quickly.
Last Important Thing : Use Custom Domain Name
How custom domain name matters to Alexa rank? Do they not rank sub domains like abc.blogspost.com, pqr.tumblr.com? Why not, they do. If you read my last post on Alexa’s working system, you’ll understand that how much Alexa does rank custom domain websites and blogs. No doubt that many sub domain sites have got good Alexa rank even below 15,000. But the question is how fast, how quickly they passed these milestones, gain one million below, pass 100,000 milestones, reach out 50,000 Alexa traffic rank and also be a part of top 20,000 sites as Alexa ranking. As my experience, Alexa gives the priority to those who have custom domains. I have to wait almost 7-9 months to get 250,000 Alexa rank. But do you know how much time it took to reach that point when I changed my sub domain to a custom domain?
Believe or not, it took only one 25 days to pass that rank which before it took eight months. I see only increments of Alexa rank of my blog. So if you want to increase your Alexa rank quickly, I recommend you to get a custom domain name. I don’t think you’d lose anything except Google page rank which can be recaptured in the next PR update by converting to sub domain name to a custom domain name.
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| Alexa Traffic Rank report: Pointed position is the date of i claimed YourTBox |
This article is a little long post, I would be thankful you if you read this full post. In online marketing, having website is worthwhile and useful. Also having a website with good Alexa rank is awesome. If you read the whole article through, you’ll understand that increasing the Alexa rank is not a hard work, but needs some works done properly like creating backlinks, quality content etc. Here are some short tips to increase Alexa rank.
- Blogging In daily basis
- Increase Page views
- Use a Custom domain
- Engage in SEO, SMO, EM and Link Building industry
- Make use of Alexa tools
By using these tactics, you will surely increase your Alexa traffic rank well. It’s 100% sure. However if you use a sub domain name and want to change domain name, remember that all of your ranks (globally and country basis), traffic reports, Alexa backlinks, keywords, advertising impacts data, geography and demography information would be lost and you will have to start increasing Alexa rank again beginning, from No Data found (N/A). But don’t worry here at Pro Blog Tricks; we got a good Alexa rank after changing our domain name in a short time period (See above screen shot)
All in all, to increase your site’s Alexa rank, it actually doesn’t take too much time. Pro Blog Tricks was a one of top 60,000 sites in the world within two months and four days. It depends on what you work, how you work, links to web pages etc. Follow above 14 tactics and see how your site’s Alexa ranking increased in a short time period.
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