I have in this post written about the inaccuracy in the way Alexa calculates a websites ranking on their site, as a continuation to that post I have been running a little experiment to just see how easy it is to change ones ranking.
As it’s so far much easier than I would ever had believed possible, but due to the fact that it has only have been running for 10 days.
I wont just yet write about what I did, but I can give you the result so far. ;)
Ten days ago my Alexa Ranking was 409,935, today ten days later it’s 334,531.!
In other words my ranking has increased with 75,404 positions on my Alexa Ranking in only ten days.
And more importantI have done this without any form of cheat, black hat seo, so when I write my guide in about two weeks. You will be able to take the same steps, if you want to and then changing your own Alexa Ranking.
Not saying that you will get the same result, because it differs from site to site, blog to blog, but you would be able to get ahead the sites that don’t.
Have you worked on changing your Alexa ranking, how did you do it and of course what was the end result.?
About Jimmy Sigenstrøm
Twitter: pythonskynet
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Congrats on your achievement. However, my alexa ranking is moved to 75000 and moving around those numbers since 1-2 weeks.
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Twitter: w3blogdk
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Nice but from which position.?
And what did you do to reach the ranking, and how many hits do the site have daily.?
Twitter: pythonskynet
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I was stuck at around 1.2 lakhs for around 1 month, then sudden increase in traffic, which moved upto 4K visits per day, but now after 14th October panda update, visits are around 700-800 per daY. So sad, but Alexa is still around 75K only.
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Twitter: seednursery
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How often does Alexa update? I just installed the alexa tool bar this week and my position is 27 million. Lol.
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Twitter: w3blogdk
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Their traffic rankings are rolling over the last 3 months traffic on your site, so if you have an increase in traffic then it shouldn’t take long before you see it.
Twitter: AnaTrafficCafe
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That’s excellent! Look forward to reading your report.
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Twitter: techsparx1
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nice article i found it quite intresting thnx for sharing u r idea
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Twitter: Tradesman4u
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Sorry if I already posted. I think I errored out. The suspense is killing me Jimmy. Let us know how you did it!
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Twitter: TechieSaves
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You guys are really bloggers if you get 4k visitors a day. Nice performance on Alexa
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Jimmy, you are correct. I have toyed with many ideas and methodologies to improve Alexa, but the best method to do it is by continuously updating the blog with UNIQUE content. this really works!
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I have a fairly new site, I am ranked number 7,000 in my country purely because I visit my site for admin and testing purposes from a browser with Alexa toolbar. My Google Analytics stats prove that my site has not taken off yet in any way. OK, I am not “playing” in the range of successful sites, but I found it really peculiar!
Dumb question, but how exactly does improving Alexa rank improve one’s site? Does it result in more traffic? I suspect it adds to site value, but that only matters if you wish to sell it.
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Twitter: w3blogdk
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Hi
It can result in more traffic, because the higher ranking a site has the more users.
Because a lot of users attract more users, because if you post a comment on a blog with high number of users there is a larger chance that the will click on you link.
But besides that then no, it only matters if you want to sell a site or sell ads.
Twitter: frugalskills
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Many advertisers use a site’s Alexa rank to determine if they want to buy adspace there and how much they’re willing to pay.
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I have to agree with the comment about unique content being key in improving traffic and hence alexa ranking. When we started our blog on our website a few months ago we were 200K in US ranking. By consistently added new content to our blog as well as spending time developing the layout/appearance of our site, we have seen our ranking rise to 90-100K. Its a slow process but one that can be done with a little work and attention to detail.
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That’s right, now inaccuracy in the way Alexa calculates a websites ranking make me don’t care anymore about Alexa ranking. More backlink and backlink is my concern now.
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Apparently if you can entice a lot of (or even a few) people with an alexa plugin installed in their browser to your site – your ranking will improve dramatically.
An a-hem “friend” of mine experimented with this, posted a single page website with little on it and then added a profile link to it on an Internet Marketing site she was active on (internet marketers all tend to have a pagerank / alexa rank plugin installed). Within a few weeks her site was ranking 1,500,000 despite having only 10-20 visitors a day.
Twitter: deucegroup
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I’m curious to know what your trick is, my Alexa ranking fluctuates, but I don’t really keep much tabs on it.
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Where can we purchase your guide that you mentioned above?
Twitter: w3blogdk
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You can’t purchase a guide as such, but you can read it here http://w3blog.dk/seo/how-did-i-change-my-alexa-ranking.html
Twitter: NextGen_Writer
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When I check my blog’s Alexa rating, it’s always different from the last time… but does it really matter? What would you prefer, a good Alexa rating and a couple dozen ‘regular’ visitors or a couple hundred regular visitors and not-so-good rating?
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Twitter: w3blogdk
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I would differently go for the couple of hundred good visitors and a bad ranking, any day of the week. Because if you have that, then more visitors will come in time and of course then your rating will also improve.
Twitter: namaserajesh
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Congrats on your achievement. Alexa rank is not accurate. Don’t waste time on Alexa results and ranking.
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Twitter: w3blogdk
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Normally I don’t waste any time on it, the sole reason for this experiment is to show how easy it is to change one raking.! ;)
Twitter: marketsecrets
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There are paid traffic services nowadays that send traffic from ppl who have the Alexa toolbar installed on their browsers which increases your own Alexa rankings of curse ;)
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Nice, looking forward to your report. But what is the bearing of Alexa in terms of Google? I always use this site to check for page rank http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php. Need to check out my site on Alexa then.
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Twitter: w3blogdk
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I’m almost done with it, so maybe it might be online later today.
I don’t use prchecker myself I always use http://www.webiq.dk because that site also checks Alexa ranking, backlinks and indexed pages
Interesting stuff, I went from 7+ Million to 723,000 in one month and it’s only the second month my blog has been online.
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Twitter: gregwight
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Interesting test. I used an automated rank enhancer for one month and my Alexa ranking went from 534,000 to 137,000. I am still not sure if this is what did it or not though because I also had the Alexa Tool Bar installed at that time.
I changed my hard drive and did not use the rank enhancer or reinstall the Alexa Tool Bar and my ranking slipped to 237,000. It is now at about 204,000 and has stayed there for over 3 months.
Maybe I will reinstall the tool bar and see if makes a difference. If not I will try the rank enhancer software again, but I am not concerned with Alexa ranking too much. I am more concerned with the amount of traffic I receive.
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There are many advertisers who use a site’s alexa rank whether to decide if they want to buy adspace and how much they would have to pay.
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I would have to agree that Alexa is never as accurate as it could be. This is mostly due to the fact that if you have a website where people using the Alexa bar are more likely to visit, then your ranking will be higher. For example, webmaster websites and such can have a much higher Alexa ranking even with low traffic numbers. That is what I have seen from my perspective at least.
Twitter: netflave
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nice post. every one wants to top alexa rankings and improve.
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Well “Sites Linking In” status of Alexa display the update very quickly than before… However, my website’s traffic stats are fluctuating, when I am constantly receiving more than 22k unique visitors; but its all right. I think these days Alexa seems more active than Google
There are paid traffic services nowadays that send traffic from ppl who have the Alexa toolbar installed on their browsers which increases your own Alexa rankings of curse
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Twitter: Maxillo_Faciale
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Hi Jimmy,
have you revealed the secret to rise through the alexa rank? I’m interested if you do not use black hat techniques.
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Twitter: w3blogdk
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I don’t know if it’s the secret, but it works for me on all my sites.!
As you can see this site keeps rising in ranking, and the same is going on with my pagerank checker.
You can read what I did here http://w3blog.dk/seo/how-did-i-change-my-alexa-ranking.html
As i said on your previos post, having a link in Dmoz.com is so important for increasing alexa page rank.
also try to leave useful comments in dofollow blogs or websites.
good trick
your alexa is really respectable. i guess it doesn’t have a direct impact on rankings or so, but better numbers are always better numbers!
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