Search Engine Optimization

Link: http://www.doshdosh.com/20-quick-ways-to-increase-your-alexa-rank/

Alexa is a rank information site/toolbar owned by Amazon measured by the amount of users that have visited a site with the toolbar installed. (Google, Yahoo, and others have the same concept with their toolbars)

Why increase your Alexa rank?
Ad networks refer to your Alexa rank to determine the worth of a link on your site. The higher the reach and traffic, the higher the worth. Alexa is not 100% accurate as it mainly takes information from users using the toolbar, but many still refer to it's reports to get an idea of how a site is doing.

Here are some tips on increasing Alexa Ranking. These have been collected from several articles and I cannot guarantee its accuracy. Experiment at your own risk:

- Install the Alexa Toolbar or Firefox SearchStatus and set the site that you would like to increase as your homepage

- Post and Alexa Rank Widget on your site: http://www.alexa.com/site/site_stats/signup each click to the widget counts as a visit even when the toolbar is not installed. Post Widgets on heavily visited pages or on your pages with a high Google Page rank

- Have your company, friends, and family install the toolbar and visit your site or ask to make it their homepage. If that's too much for them, have them click on your Alexa Rank Widget

- Blog about Alexa. This provides rich content to your site and others will become interested in linking to you.

- Post your link in forums and other blogs along with posting your comments and feedback; get some help by hiring someone to post for you

- Use PayperClick Campaigns to bring in Traffic. The more traffic, the more likely you are to have people using the toolbar or click on your widgets

- Do link exchanges or buy banners/links on high traffic sites

- Pay Cybercafes to install the toolbar on all their machines and have your site as the homepage to all their computers.

- Use Alexa Auto-Surfs http://www.upmyrank.com/