It’s already Friday and this is a post I planned on getting out on Monday of last week, yeah it’s safe to say I am running behind or I am just suffering from a lack of motivation to write blogging tips. I have a pretty crazy day ahead of me, so this will be a quick post to give you a few tips that might help you increase your Alexa ranking.
The Alexa Toolbar is a free toolbar that will not only allow you to track your own blog or websites ranking, it will also allow you to see where other blogs rank on Alexa.com. Another benefit to having the Alexa Toolbar installed on your browser is that it also offers some form of credit in increasing your own Alexa ranking, because each time you visit your own site with the toolbar installed.. it helps your ranking.
I really can’t take credit for this I have to give this credit up to Cristina Bledsoe from The Star Celeb for getting me involved in this to some degree. Basically one of your blog readers that is a blogger takes a moment to write a review in regards to the reasons they like your blog, in the event you read their blog as well you can return the favor.
This is pretty simple and I can see where it would be effective, the key here is keeping the chain honest. Don’t write reviews for blogs that you really don’t read, and don’t expect people that don’t read your blog to write reviews for you. Keep it real, and if you feel like it you can review Extreme John here.
3. Reach Out to Your Readers
If you put a tremendous amount of work into your blog and you have built a nice community amongst the folks that read your blog take a moment to reach out to them right on your blog, ask your readers to rate and review your blog on Alexa.
Don’t get frustrated if this doesn’t come together for you right away, not everyone is motivated to write a review for someone else and it might take a little time before you really start to see the results you want.
Who knows maybe after writing this I little post with some Alexa ranking tips I might get a review or two out of it (hint hint). Either way if you found this useful take a moment and leave a comment, you might want to subscribe to my rss feed or follow me on Twitter.
P.s. I broke into the Top 50,000 in the world this week as well as the Top 17,000 in the United States, not what I would expect from a blog about nothing. THANK YOU!
Thanks again everyone, and some of you better come through here over the weekend I have a few decent posts scheduled.
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These are good tips to improve Alexa rankings. I have really never bothered about it that much, but I guess it is still an important metrics and breaking the 50K worldwide is quite an achievement. Watch out Google, here I come..hehehe Congrats bro and keep it up. When I get to that spot, you will be way under the 20K’s.
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@DiTesco, thanks on the congrats I appreciate it, I just hope that I continue to stay focused and keep it up and never forget where I came from.
I didnt know about the review part. Cool you shared that.
I’ll ask some of my close friends to say some words lol. But you mention blogger…should it be a blogger or can it also be a reader without a blog?
@Kurt Avish, as mentioned above anyone that actually reads your blog would be who I would recommend for writing a review.
@Extreme John, That’s good then, I am going to ask my girlfriend to review me lol (am kidding). Well I hope someone will review mine soon too.
Btw congrats for the 50000 barrier breach
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@Kurt Avish, hey if your girlfriend reads your blog than why not have her write a review of it. Thank you
Great tip of creating a review chain. I never heard of it before but that would be something we could all benefit from.
Congratulations on breaking into the top 50,000 as well.
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@Blaine Bullman, without a doubt Blaine, give it a shot and see what you come up with.
I scratch your back and you scratch mine? I’m writing the review write now.
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@Asswass, consider it a deal
Nice to see someone was willing to jump on it ;)
Nice tips how to increase ALexa ranking..
It is good to get good alexa ranking. It means more traffic and also opportunity to make money.
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The only reason that’s stopping me from doing this is, I don’t really want another toolbar. I already have tons of Firefox plugins. Mind you, I’d never really thought about the Alexa reviews, so thanks for the idea.
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@Paul@copywriting blog, this toolbar is very small it doesn’t clutter really change anything too crazy.
Suffice to say, I’ll be on my way over very shortly to write my review
And reviews back are always welcome 
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@Karen@Blazing Minds, I read your blog daily Karen so I will be more than happy to write a review for you. I love the creativity of the topics you blog about.
@Extreme John, thanks that would be most appreciated
Oh check out today’s Saturday Six, now I wonder who’s topic I chose to use
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@Karen@Blazing Minds, haha I got over there and was very excited to see that you used my topic
Thank you so much, wish it had a better turn out I need to work it into one of my posts.
I have to be honest: I’d forgotten all about Alexa. I remember it when it first came on the scene, but didn’t pay much attention. Friends recently started talking about their Alexa rankings, and I got curious. My blog was somewhere in the millions, but my Google PR was a 3. I thought that was a bit odd.
Frankly, I’m not sure what happened, but my competitive streak’s getting a bit of a kick out of it.
What I really don’t get, though, is that it’s claiming my blog ranks really well in South Korea. I’m just not seeing those visitors on my stats. So what the heck?
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@Holly Jahangiri, hey there is nothing wrong with some enjoyable numbers to push you through the day and keep you silently motivated
OMG!!!! Your post, heck your site has me sooooo pumped up! What an exciting energy you have! Awesome tips on the Alexa toolbar as well, I’ll add it to my list of things to do this weekend.
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@Ms. Freeman, haha glad that my overly exciting post could get you pumped up.
Nice tips and review, I wish you all the best to your blog, it’s getting more exiting than ever!
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I’ve actually did a post about this ages ago, the only problem is that it only works well if everyone has the toolbar installed.
I’ve just recently installed the Alexa widget on some of my blogs and I’m just wondering if this isn’t a better way to increase your ratings as it records every visit to your blog, allowing Alexa to track it more accurately. Wassup has just recent broken the 100,000 mark.
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Say John, What comment plugin are you using?
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@Sire, I use WP Threaded Comments Sire, if you need the link let me know.
@Extreme John, Nope found it OK. Just had to play with comment.php some so I could still have my smilies where I want them.
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Good advice John, I have the toolbar installed and I think that really helps. I never even thought of the alexa review that is a great idea. BTW, I just wrote a review for you over at Alexa…it looks like a couple of your blogging buddies took your hint.
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Nice tips about Alexa, I have read about the toolbar before but did not take action.
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Some of my friends are also using this toolbar and it really helped in increasing their rank, but i guess its much important to learn to create nice articles/blog for the readers to read rather than incereasing the rank, this applies to newbies like me… but these are nice tips from a pro… i’ll add this as another learning tool… thumbs up!
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Good tip I will have to do this. I am in the not in the top 100k list. I also hear that it helps to put that little ranking bar on your sidebar or page.
Then they know where your at.
@Jared P Little, yeah that’s certainly another piece of the puzzle.
I’ll write a short review on your blog as I enjoy reading it. I hope you’ll also return the favour. Hey congrates on breaking 50,000 barrier.
@Ricky, hey Rickey I appreciate it and yes I will be returning the favor, just waiting for the dust to settle on some of the Alexa reviews I need to write.
John once again you added another milestone to your blog. Top 50k is an excellent achievement. Yours and Brian’s Blogengage keeps on keeping better traffic. Keep up the good work John.
Michael
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@MichaelR@VoIP tips and tricks, thank you I appreciate that greatly.
I forgot to tell you that I just left my review and your blog gained another 1k. Alexa ranking now is 47,861
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John, Killer job on boosting your Alexa ranking. Congrats. Thanks for the tips and advice. However I think I am starting to get “toolbarred out”. I think I am going to start using two difference instances of Firefox with different toolbars in each ;-)
Congratulations on your new alexa rank. According to my toolbar, it’s now at 48,546.
Anyway, thanks also for mentioning about the reviews in Alexa. I don’t know that. I am also targeting to increase my alexa.
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I was not much serious about alexa. After reading the methods you have mentioned I think I can give it a try.
Thanks,
Steve
I am always supporting the idea of using ‘Alexa’ while surfing, however since I am natively supporting Mozilla-based browsers (Netscape then Firefox), I am using the “add-on” tool for FF which appears on the toolbar page while loading in FF. Great tips of course, John!
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I was unaware about the review part,thanks for the information,I should be able to work on this
Alexa is weird I have a good alexa yet no one comes to my blog they must like me
LOL
I was sad to go back up past 50k but I will be going down again now that I have been posting.
Sometimes I just look at someone’s alexa as a method of seeing how serious they are about blogging.
Let’s race to the TOP /bottom COME on pink slips?
Christmas eve who’s alexa is lower this blog for mine ?
come on I need a great blog LOL
3,2,1 GREEN.
Congrats dude
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@John Sullivan, you can have the win brother you have bad ass blog and Im not looking to be number one, all though I have no problem making sure you get to the end of your journey safely. New York style, watchin your back.
Your like the “Seinfeld” of the Internet… with this blog about “Nothing”… that is doing so well!
Someday I hope to have a ranking higher “ZERO”
Definitely never even thought about getting an Alexa review… but I am now. If any of you out there want to give our site a review, we would be happy to reciprocate.
Thanks John for the great tips!
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@Doug Dillard, haha that is pretty funny Doug I never really looked at it like that.
I agree on some pts. I think alexa somehow only reflects some parts of the traffic u get i also broke into 50,000 mark but i do not have the amount of traffic u get. I suppose mine is because of twitter and entrecard
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Congrats on the ranking buddy!
Pretty sweet post… I like the review idea it seems like it might work but I would think that the site you review needs a good amount of traffic to send you.
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Congratulations on the ranking – we love this “blog about nothing!”
Great tips too, thanks – I didn’t even have the toolbar yet.
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@Christie @ miscbytes, well I am thrilled that you all like this blog about nothing, at least someone gets some use out of it. haha
Great advice John. I just posted my first Alexa review and it was on you
It was pretty simple and I think I’m going to do like you said and ask all my friends to leave a rating and review. I haven’t given too much thought to my Alexa rank but I know I should be building it up, or down I mean.
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@Brian D. Hawkins, thats bad ass Brian thank you and I appreciate that, I will be returning the favor to anyone that has written a review for my site.
I can see how a reader with Alexa toolbar in his browser help you rank well, but what’s the benefit in Alexa review of your blog? Does it have more weight than the hits you get from readers who have Alexa toolbar installed?
Am I missing something? Has Alexa site, specifically its review page, driving significant amount of traffic to your blog?
Other than knowing about the helpfulness of visitors with the toolbar installed, I admit to not knowing much about this. And it’s a source of amusement to that I can’t break below 200k figure the past two weeks. It’s a puzzle, but of course it’s not that a big deal for me. “,)
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@jan geronimo, if nothing else it shows a strong supporting community.
Wow…Congrats on breaking top 50,000 and also thanks for the advice on creating a review chain..
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Good tips John!This will surely help in improving the rank, but just installing the Alexa toolbar on your PC and surfing your own site wont really help.
Off-topic: I hope it is alright if I call this blog among my favorites to comment on!
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@Tech-Freak Stuff, haha yeah I would love that, thank you.
Congrats for breaking the 50k barrier. I hope someday I can break that too. Right now I just broke the 1 million ranking but its been just 3 weeks since I started my blog.
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@ZXT, it will be a matter of time before you break the 100k and your on the move and guys like me will get lazy and fall off.
I’ve just installed Alexa Toolbar 2 days ago, I’ve set my blog as homepage, I’m waiting to see the result. Writing review in Alexa might be quite difficult as not much people want to spend time doing this for you, but that’s a good try. :D
Congrats on your Alexa ranking! I’m still hanging at 103k+..still can’t break the 100k+ line…still working hard..
Cheers,
Lee
@Lee Ka Hoong, yeah breaking that 100k is a little rough but once you do it’s easy from there on out, or at least I like to say it’s easy.
@Lee Ka Hoong,
It seems like a lot of work bro. If I did start up my own I can tell you my numbers would be far fewer. 100 k is good if the ranks go up through the hundreds(k)
I have also noticed this, and installed Alexa on all the computers in my family….
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Congrats, I haven’t started a review chain, but I definitely should. Alexa rank very closely ties to traffic visiting the site though, not backlinks like PageRank.
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Hey John,
I left a little review… Not sure if you have stopped returning reviews but if you do then my Frugal Blog could do witj it’s first review
http://www.alexa.com/write/review/frugalzeitgeist.com
Cheers John (By the way I normally post using my RealBloggingTips blog).
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I’ve always heard to install the toolbar, but I’ve never thought to do reviews or ask people for reviews. Might have to give those two options a shot.
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HI
Nice Post
Hey John, I am relatively new here but I like it so I gave you a review.
I am not sure I see the point of using the tool bar to raise your own ranking. Isn’t that kind of like visiting your own blog to see the visits stats go up?
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@Ned Carey, It’s all about perception Ned. People see you have a good rating and assume you have a great blog.
Anyway, I don’t think it lifts it that much, but like money, everything helps.
Hey John, I know your busy mate, but I’m still waiting for that review. Seeing as how it took you so long you had better make it an extra special one
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Hey Ned thank you for taking the time to comment I appreciate it greatly. As for the Alexa toolbar it’s kind of like Sire said, it’s like money and every little bit helps. ;)
@Ned Carey,
Ned…because every other blog has their own tool bar so why not put a tool bar too and help your blog at the same time? It’s like if you don’t have a tool bar then you are depriving your own blog from some ranking while the others gaining on you.
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@ZXT,
ZXT, well I am testing the Alexa widget in my sidebar. It’s embarrassing though as the number is so high. I don’t know why but my Alexa number has gone way up but traffic stats haven’t change that much.
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@Ned Carey,
It only means that the other websites gain traffic on you and your traffic stayed where it was. I’m at 180k right now and improvement has been slow but steady so far.
@John, don’t look now but your at 28k.
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So, is what your trying to say, ” when someone scratch’s your back, scratch theirs ? ” I wonder what the top 100 in the world are like. Yours seems pretty broad(blog). I used to think this was more of dispense of feelings. It’s really more like a tutoring class . You put a lot of informative stuff here.
ALEXA here I come.
I will look into this. Thanks
I have also make one review on how to increase alexa rank, I am happy now that my alexa rank is below 100k.
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I can see this blog has now 27k Alexa rank…I wonder how far it will go. Maybe 25k by the end of the year? Then maybe next year target is under 10k.
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To increase your Alexa rank in the long run, I would highly recommended that one focus on developing quality content which attracts and maintains a large audience instead of purely focusing on artificially increasing your Alexa Rank.
now your alexa rank is about 26k which means you dropped another 25k in the last 3 months, congrats :D
i have been planning to put some of these ideas into action soon, will start with the review thing next
Congrats on hitting 50k Alexa.
We’re all so busy backlinks that we don’t bother to improve the quality of our blogs and get people to build links to us without the hard work…a better use of our time, I think.
@Corrinne@Touch Up Systems, thank you for taking the time to leave a comment.
Wow, hitting 50k Alexa is my target for my site for the next two years max…Congrats for the achievement!
Great tips John. Personally, I have tried the first and last tips with good amount of success till now. But yet to try out the “Create a Review Chain” method. Thanks for this great post. Really appreciate
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