Alexa is a website, which provides the web information based on the traffic and ranks the website according to the web traffic and its popularity. It is the group company in the Amazon network. Alexa ranks a website based on the amount of users who have visited the website and several other factors like time on site, bounce rate influences the rank of the website.
To know more about Alexa Ranking, Check Out What is Alexa Rank & How Does It Works?
Although many people doesn’t believe in Alexa ranking but it is the only open ranking system one can check to know popularity of the website. As a webmaster, the Alexa rank of the website is one of the means to determine the popularity of your website.
The following are the tips to increase your website’s Alexa rank
#1. Alexa Toolbar
Use Alexa toolbar which is available for the Firefox and internet explorer. Set your blog as the homepage of your browser. Ask your friends & family members who loves you a lot to do the same. It significantly helps you in improving the Alexa Rank.
#2. Update Regularly
Regular updates and Consistency of the blog is loved by search engines which helps you in regular crawling by the search engines and thus it helps in improving the Alexa Rank. The recommended frequency of the posts is at least one per day.
#3. Alexa Rank Widget
Use and Alexa rank widget in your blog/website which helps you in direct indexing or crawling by the Alexa. It is the most widely used method to increase the websites Alexa rank.
#4. Social Networking
Use social networking sites like Digg, Stumbleupon. Twitter as increased visitors to the blog will help your blog in making popular and at the same time it will have a positive impact on your Alexa rank.Not only that sites like digg will be indexed better and also helps you in getting solid backlinks at Alexa.
#5. Verify Your Site
Verify your site at Alexa by creating an account at Alexa or with your facebook account and by adding a meta link to your site. It helps Alexa in understanding that your site is a genuine and not a spammed one.
#6. Alexa Reviews
Ask your friends and fellow bloggers to review site at Alexa. The more no of reviews you receive at Alexa the more popular your site in Alexa’s View. You are welcome to write your review on TechCats at Alexa.
Let me know if you know any other tips/tricks that will help us in increasing the Alexa Ranking.
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These are some of the basic tips but they surely work pretty effectively. Looking for more advanced tips from the fellow bloggers.
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Thanks for sharing. Nice points.
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You know what since last three months my blog’s Alexa rank has decreased from 84k to 153k!
Now I’m trying my level best to get back my rank.
Verifying the site is very important, but alexa is useless
You’ve got an impressive Alexa Rank. Good tips.
Yeah — even many blogger do not believe in alexa, i still use it to measure the blog success as long as there are no substitution for it.
Btw, i use all of this tips and it work great for my blog.
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All of these tips are published millions of times on internet. I think you should come up with some new tips to increase alexa ranking.
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Although these tips were posted a million tips over the net these were definitely new ones for those who don’t know any thing about Alexa.. Hope atleast some people will find this useful..
Great tips! This is just the information I’ve been searching for. A definite bookmark here.
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Yes, your alexa rank tips really rocks. Thanks a ton for the tips.
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Great tips.These tips really work.My Alexa is improving day by day
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Glad that these were helpful for you..
I think we have done all of the above except point #5 & 6.
Anyway, congrats Rajesh on your Alexa rank progress
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Great…. i knew that Alexa toolbar will help us to increase our ranks… but never knew how to do it
hanks for sharing bro 
I’ve just broken into the 1M top sites Alexa ranking.
I had the Alexa widget earlier but its not on my blog now that I’ve changed my theme.
I’m just working on increasing the visitors and I think that will increase my blog’s ranking.
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Some nice tips to increase alexa. I feel point 6 is not affecting the alexa rank but that is my personal opinion.
Alexa toolbar really helps! But verifying our site won’t increase our rank in any way, just will increase our impression.
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Easy and useful tips. I’m sure your tips will help me increase my Alexa Rank, thanks bro!
I am so concerned about alexa but many advertisers still rely on this measure tool then it still helps. My alexa is not too bad after 3 months launching my blog but keeping it high all the time is not easy at all. Content & networking are the main factors!
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I tried everything to Verify but doesnt work. Meta, etc I dont know to fix it?
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Im just losing alexa rank, and I dont know why because I have more and more users
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thanks for the tips………amd another things is ….for example u make google.co.uk your home page …..and keep searching by adding your site keywords and click your site if it appears ..u will see country uk contry ranking as well…………..happi blogging
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Our website Alexa will increase at a fast pace as we are able to increase traffic on our websites especially in internet marketing domain as most of users in this niche use Alexa toolbar or some plugins for alexa in their browsers.
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Hi, I doubt the third point .. Alexa widget is just a tool to show the rank.
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but that helps Alexa to recognize ur blog and crawl ur blog…
I believe that there is some other feature mate that decides the rank, these days I get 10 times more traffic than I used to get, 2 months back, but when if you see my Alexa rank in India was then 5k and now its 7k . Something wrong with it, surely.
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even though that is fare enough to think that Alexa has changed the ranking algorithm to rank the websites in a better way and for sure the above mentioned factors will influence the blog’s performance a lot…
I am not believe alexa rank. If use lots of technique you get more alexa rank than other high traffic blog…
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Great List……. I get 5 out of 6.
I got to work on Socail media
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Thanks for sharing… I found using the widget the most helpful way…..
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I have been following some of these points recently and I am expecting some good results soon.
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Thanks, I think that good for Alexa rank, too
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i totally i agree. i am using alexa also in my Mozzilla Browser. it helps me determine the ranking of the websites. alexa is helpful tool for bloggers.