All About Alexa

What is Alexa?

Alexa is website which provides traffic information for website. “Alexa Rank” is unit used by this website to indicate the number of users who have visited the website with Alexa toolbar installed.

Why it is important?

Advertisers and Webmasters use Alexa rank as a measuring tool to determine the value your web site. If your website has good Alexa rank that means you will get high ad pricing.

How to start?

The first step to start with Alexa is install toolbar on your machine. If you are using Internet Explorer for browsing then download and simply install Alexa toolbar(http://www.alexa.com/site/download/) and if you are using Mozilla Firefox then SearchStatus(http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/) extension. This will display Alexa rank as well as Google Page rank.

Increase Alexa Rank but How?

I know at this point of time you are very curious to know the secretes to increase the Alexa rank of your website. First thing that I always repeat in my articles is “Unique and Quality content” which will automatically attract large pool of audience without the need of artificial method to increase the traffic.

1. Install Alexa tool bar or SearchStatus extension and set your website as your homepage.
2. Add Alexa rank widget on your website. Each click is count as a new visit if alexa toolbar is not installed on visitor’s browser.
3. Promote Alexa toolbar in your friend circle and ask them to use your website as home page.
4. Write some artcles and blog about Alexa and include the link to your website within the content section.
5. Post your link in the discussion forums; this is one of the effective way to get good Alexa rank.
6. Use Alexa redirects on your website URL like this http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.freeseohelp.blogspot.com
7. Create Alexa category on your website/blog and use it to post articles and news about Alexa.