5 Of The Best Ways To Increase Your Alexa Page Rank
Install the Alexa toolbar or Firefox’s SearchStatus extension – why? Well, it appears that Alexa ranks are dependant on who visits your website with the Alexa toolbar installed or the Firefox alternative.
Encourage visitors to use the Alexa toolbar, you can do this through jQuery pop-ups, banners – however you want, just encourage, encrouage, encourage your visitors to install that toolbar! It will make all the difference!
Use Alexa redirects on your website URL. Do this: http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.mysite.com . Replace ‘www.mysite.com’ with the www. address of your site. So what effect does this have? Well, if you leave this URL in blog comments, forum posts etc. This directly increases your rank, regardles of whether or not the visitor has the toolbar.
Flaunt Your Address in sites like forums, blogs, and other popular sites – in summary, wherever you think you can get your site name and address, get it in there! But be cautious not to start spamming.
Blog About SEO and SEO related content, such as Alexa – this is one of the things that gets webmasters hyped up! They love to hear about it! So obviously they will read about it, meaning better rank for you!
Site Visits (Part 2): 5 Ways To Improve Page Rank
Now, in the second part of the series we are going to look at ways to improve upon your page rank, if you scored 7 or over in the last post, there isn’t really a need for you to read this post, but hey – if you want to – i ain’t gonna stop you!
One: If you’re the owner of a non-script site, e.g. a regular site owner, not WordPress – every document will contain tags such as description and keywords. These can be found in the <head> of your document. You should add relevant keywords to help people find your site through search engines, and a good description in under 160 words about your site. If you’re a WordPress owner, you can also install many plugins which can help you do this too. A good example is: All In One SEO.
Two: Join Google’s Webmaster Central. Link. From here you can easily analyze your website stats. By doing this you can also monitor how your website keywords affect your SEO performance. In fact – I use this service, it’s really good (and free!)
Three: Feed Google and other search engines with a good sitemap! Sitemaps are so important to your site, it allows search engines to crawl your website to find all the pages in your site. A sitemap is also something good to use in conjunction with Google Webmaster Central.
Four: Visit popular forums! I will soon be starting a forum here at MyTutorialz! (You can post your site here). However, there are many more popular forums out there. All you need to do is find a forum that is relative to your site, join the forum – and as a signature just add your website link. This will gain you links from popular sites, guaranteed to give you a higher rank!
Five: Encourage other sites to link back to your site. This may work also if you do a bit of ‘give and take’ with the owner of another website, prehaps they display a link to your website, you display one to theirs? Sounds good!
Now watch that figure keep growing!