| People use Amazon's Alexa web traffic rank to | | | | forums are all webmasters and guess what? |
| estimate your site's popularity. Alexa determines | | | | They have the Alexa tool bar installed in their |
| your site's traffic rank based on the people who | | | | browsers. |
| visit your site out of all the people who have | | | | 4. You can also buy forum signatures. Forum |
| installed the Alexa tool bar in their browsers. | | | | members will use forum signatures linked to your |
| Though it is not a perfect method to determine a | | | | site in return for a fee. Negotiate your price for a |
| site's traffic, many still use it as a relative | | | | set number of posts and new threads in month. |
| measure of web traffic. | | | | You can use the fees paid for forum signature as |
| If most of your visitors are not using the Alexa | | | | one of your advertisement expenses in your tax |
| tool bar, your site's ranking in Alex will be low | | | | return. |
| even if you have a decent traffic. This low | | | | 5. Asian online users are increasing in a massive |
| ranking may affect your site's advertising rates. | | | | way. Create your profiles in social networking |
| So, it is prudent to increase the Alexa ranking by | | | | sites popular in Asia, e.g. hi5, orkut, etc. Develop |
| following the 7 steps described below. | | | | an Asian webmaster friends network using the |
| 1. Get your site listed in a large number of search | | | | social media sites. As the Alexa ranking depends |
| engines. Besides the top search engines, like | | | | on world wide visitors, when these Asian |
| Google, Yahoo!, and MSN, you should submit your | | | | webmasters visit your site, you will get a boost in |
| site to at least one hundred small and niche | | | | Alex traffic ranking. |
| search engines. | | | | 6. If you site is a general purpose portal useful to |
| Webmasters visit these small search engines and | | | | a wide range web surfers, you can persuade |
| a large proportion of Webmasters have Alexa | | | | internet or cyber cafes to install the Alexa tool |
| tool bar installed in their browsers. Even if you are | | | | bar and set your site as the home page of their |
| not going to get a ton of traffic from these small | | | | browsers for a monthly fee. |
| search engines, but a high percentage of people | | | | 7. Encourage your visitors to install Alex tool bar. |
| coming via these search engines will have the | | | | Install the tool bar in all your home computers and |
| Alexa tool bar installed. | | | | ask your friends to also install the tool bar. More |
| 2. Submit your sites to a large number of | | | | people visiting your sites with the tool bar installed, |
| directories. Webmasters browse these directories | | | | better your Alexa traffic will be. |
| and they have the Alexa bar installed. If they visit | | | | Though there are other methods like "auto surf" |
| your sites, you traffic number goes up according | | | | to increase your Alexa traffic ranking, those are |
| to Alexa. | | | | not ethical ways because visitors don't even look |
| 3. Join a dozen or so online marketing and | | | | at your site. Your goal is to have a large |
| webmasters forums. Create your forum signature | | | | percentage of real visitors to your site has Alexa |
| with links to your site in your profile and regularly | | | | tool bar. |
| participate in these forums. Visitors to these | | | | |