Alexa Experiment: could changing my Alexa Ranking have been so easy?
This post has really nothing to do with the rest of the blog around it, which is about hummus (and I do hope you’ll give it a look guys!) .The simple fact, these day, is that even a blogger who writes about hummus, should learn how to rank well in Alexa. Otherwise, he will have a hard time making decent money out of affiliate-programs like Text-Link-Ads, which consider Alexa to be a viable source of information for some reason.
So I gave this subject a little time, and now I’m back and going to tell you all what works best.
Do you want to participate?
Well, you can decide about that later. Meanwhile, lets get to business.
A short explanation: though being far from accurate, the Alexa Rating is used in many cases as a measure for a site’s popularity. A good example is the Text-link-ads advertising program, in which Alexa Rating is used to decide how much the advertiser will pay, and therfore – how much you will be paid.
Many people look for “dirty tricks” for manipulating the rating. Some, explain how you should optimize and market your site so that it will get a lot of traffic and hopefully a lot of your visitors will have the Alexa toolbar installed (this is always true, but is not merely enough).
I suspect the simple truth is that you need relatively little traffic to get better ranking – but you need “quality traffic”, specifically: people who have the Alexa Toolbar installed.
Now, if you got this far, than you probably figured that out already: when writing about Alexa I’m naturally drawing the attention of the right people. I know some people who use the Alexa Toolbar have a special interest in such posts, and will read them even if they are posted in a blog which has nothing to do with SEO (or so it seem).
[OK, you're right - I also know a thing or two about SEO. White-hat highly ethical and very organic SEO, which I do mostly pro-bono for fun and for NGOs. And you'll soon see how there's actually no dirty tricks here, so me - and you - aren't gonna be penalised or anything.]
In the past few month my Alexa Rating went from 3 Million to about 200K
So I must be doing something right, right?
In the past 15 days or so, it went up even more, specifically from 214K to 181K, completing a 48% improvement in a period of 3 month.
Click Here to read what I did: Improved Alexa Rating
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I’m not sure I really want to game the system, even if Alexa is broken.
It’s hardly ethical, in the ‘Net sense of things, and just not very sporting, either.
I’d rather have people coming to my ‘blog who’re wanting to read my stuff, rather than just creating a honey trap for those who have the Alexa toolbar installed…
Wayne -
I almost agree, and if you’d take a careful look around you’ll see I put a lot more effort into making good content. Still, if I ever want to get income from Text-Link-Ads , I got to have a better Alexa ranking than people who have less traffic than I do.
Technically, most of my audience is using Firefox which may suggest the chance of them using Alexa toolbar is very small. Should I suffer bad ranking for that?
Alexa experiment: could changing my Alexa Ranking be so easy?
The simple fact, these day, is that even a blogger who writes about hummus, should learn how to rank well in Alexa. Otherwise, he will never be able to make decent money out of affiliate programs like Text-Link-Ads. So I had to learn, and now I’m goi…