7 Ways to Increase Alexa Web Traffic Rank

People use Amazon's Alexa web traffic rank toforums are all webmasters and guess what?
estimate your site's popularity. Alexa determinesThey have the Alexa tool bar installed in their
your site's traffic rank based on the people whobrowsers.
visit your site out of all the people who have4. 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 asite in return for a fee. Negotiate your price for a
site's traffic, many still use it as a relativeset 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 Alexaone of your advertisement expenses in your tax
tool bar, your site's ranking in Alex will be lowreturn.
even if you have a decent traffic. This low5. 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 bysites 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 searchsocial media sites. As the Alexa ranking depends
engines. Besides the top search engines, likeon world wide visitors, when these Asian
Google, Yahoo!, and MSN, you should submit yourwebmasters visit your site, you will get a boost in
site to at least one hundred small and nicheAlex traffic ranking.
search engines.6. If you site is a general purpose portal useful to
Webmasters visit these small search engines anda wide range web surfers, you can persuade
a large proportion of Webmasters have Alexainternet or cyber cafes to install the Alexa tool
tool bar installed in their browsers. Even if you arebar and set your site as the home page of their
not going to get a ton of traffic from these smallbrowsers for a monthly fee.
search engines, but a high percentage of people7. Encourage your visitors to install Alex tool bar.
coming via these search engines will have theInstall 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 ofpeople visiting your sites with the tool bar installed,
directories. Webmasters browse these directoriesbetter your Alexa traffic will be.
and they have the Alexa bar installed. If they visitThough there are other methods like "auto surf"
your sites, you traffic number goes up accordingto 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 andat your site. Your goal is to have a large
webmasters forums. Create your forum signaturepercentage of real visitors to your site has Alexa
with links to your site in your profile and regularlytool bar.
participate in these forums. Visitors to these