Steps Taken to Improve Alexa Rankings and the Results

About a week ago, I provided an overview of the Alexa Rankings and Tips. The tips I posted are the same tips I used on October 3rd. Alexa updates their rankings approximately once a week. Here are the steps I’ve taken to improve my rankings, as well as my results.

(You’re welcome to reprint this entry on your website as long as you don’t modify this article and you include a link to Eazy Cheezy)

What I did to Increase my Rankings:
1. I downloaded the Alexa Toolbar and have visited my website each day, after installing it.

2. I posted the Alexa Rankings and Tips, which I used and hoped you will too

3. I added a Alexa Widget at the bottom of my page, which shows my traffic rankings and links in. Also, if you click on this widget on my page, you can see many more details about my site or yours if you add it to your page. A few examples are site overview, traffic details, related links, sites linking in and even a wayback machine to see what your site looked like in the past.

4. I posted an article covering the Top 100 Alexa Rated SItes.

5. I had my site listed on DMOZ, which is the largest human edited directory on the web and co-branded with hundreds of thousands of sites. It can take up to 5 months for it to be added after you submit your site.

Note: I had previously already submitted my site to several search engines, prior to taking the steps listed in this entry.

6. I’ve made atleast 1 entry each day since installing the Alexa toolbar. I try to accomplish atleast 2 entries a day.

7. I ping all the directories I submitted my blog to after each entry to ensure my updates are published. This is a great free tool that pings up to 69 sites in one swoop.
(Thanks again for letting me know about this Steve)

8. I set my blog to my home page.

9. I’ve previously added buttons such as Digg, Stumbled Upon, and a Social Bookmarking Button and have also registered and added a button to Technorati.

10. I have made it common practice to include my Blog Address in my signature block of my e-mail and message boards I post on. I also registered on another message forum, Digitalpoint, which is an awesome source of information. You can’t add your blog address to your signature block until you post atleast 10 times and have been a member for a week, but it’s an awesome source of info.

A Few Tips I didn’t Use
1. After reading about the URL redirect in the tips I found in many articles, I found out that redirects no longer work with Alexa.

2. I have not taken an advertisement out on ExactSeek.com, mainly because I didn’t want to pay a few dollars each month. This is supposed help your rankings by being ranked on ExactSeek.

Downloads
Alexa Toolbar for Internet Explorer
Alexa Toolbar for Firefox
Search Extension for Firefox & Mozilla – Shows Google Rank, Alexa Rank, Alexa incoming/outgoing links & related links.
Alexa Traffic Widgets

My Results So Far
Ranking on October 3nd 7,061,154
Ranking on October 3rd 4,130,697
Ranking on October 7th 3,098,288

Alexa Overview – Quick Overview, Tips and Downloads
Alexa’s Top 100 Global Sites

If you think this post is informative, feel free to Digg or Stumbled Upon this entry. You can also share it with any other social networking tools you use to help share this information. Many thanks for reading Eazy Cheezy.

Have you installed the Alexa Toolbar and followed any of these tips? I’d love to hear what kind of results you have had.