ncrease your Alexa ranking. People looking for info to increase their Alexa Ranking likely have the Alexa toolbar installed. Right?

7. Buy ads on search engines to increase your traffic. This will increase your Alexa ranking.

8. Use Alexa redirection whenever you can. For example, when providing a link to my website, I could use http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?internetsecurity101.net. This Url will

After having my site up for over a year, my Alexa ranking was still over a million. This made me wonder if there were things that I could do, other than hiring 100 people to install the Alexa Toolbar and visit my site everyday, to improve my Alexa ranking. Alexa ranking is based on traffic. To be specific, on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users over a rolling three month period.

This led me to do some research on the Internet, in search of ways to improve my Alexa Ranking. In just a few weeks, using most of the twelve methods outlined below, my Alexa ranking has greatly improved. My Alexa ranking has gone from well over one million to a one week average of 218,820 and a three month average of 816,704.

Here are 12 ways to improve your Alexa Ranking, while at the same time increasing traffic to your website.

1. Install an Alexa Toolbar and visit your site everyday. This does work, since I have installed Alexa my Alexa ranking has gone up.

2. Better yet, have a few friends install the Alexa toolbar and visit your site everyday.

3. Shift the focus of your site to a more Webmaster related theme. This makes sense, since webmasters are more likely to have the Alexa Toolbar installed.

4. Post in webmaster forums and add your signature in your post. One way to gain a lot of webmaster traffic is to go to http://www.ozzu.com, sign up, go to the Review Forum, and politely ask for your website or blog to be reviewed.

5. Write webmaster related topics and distribute them around the web. There are many sites where you can submit free articles, such as Article City.

6. Write an article about tips to increase your Alexa ranking. People looking for info to increase their Alexa Ranking likely have the Alexa toolbar installed. Right?

7. Buy ads on search engines to increase your traffic. This will increase your Alexa ranking.

8. Use Alexa redirection whenever you can. For example, when providing a link to my website, I could use http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?internetsecurity101.net. This Url will t

research on the Internet, in search of ways to improve my Alexa Ranking. In just a few weeks, using most of the twelve methods outlined below, my Alexa ranking has greatly improved. My Alexa ranking has gone from well over one million to a one week average of 218,820 and a three month average of 816,704.

Here are 12 ways to improve your Alexa Ranking, while at the same time increasing traffic to your website.

1. Install an Alexa Toolbar and visit your site everyday. This does work, since I have installed Alexa my Alexa ranking has gone up.

2. Better yet, have a few friends install the Alexa toolbar and visit your site everyday.

3. Shift the focus of your site to a more Webmaster related theme. This makes sense, since webmasters are more likely to have the Alexa Toolbar installed.

4. Post in webmaster forums and add your signature in your post. One way to gain a lot of webmaster traffic is to go to http://www.ozzu.com, sign up, go to the Review Forum, and politely ask for your website or blog to be reviewed.

5. Write webmaster related topics and distribute them around the web. There are many sites where you can submit free articles, such as Article City.

6. Write an article about tips to increase your Alexa ranking. People looking for info to increase their Alexa Ranking likely have the Alexa toolbar installed. Right?

7. Buy ads on search engines to increase your traffic. This will increase your Alexa ranking.

8. Use Alexa redirection whenever you can. For example, when providing a link to my website, I could use http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?internetsecurity101.net. This Url will

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1. Install an Alexa Toolbar and visit your site everyday. This does work, since I have installed Alexa my Alexa ranking has gone up.

2. Better yet, have a few friends install the Alexa toolbar and visit your site everyday.

3. Shift the focus of your site to a more Webmaster related theme. This makes sense, since webmasters are more likely to have the Alexa Toolbar installed.

4. Post in webmaster forums and add your signature in your post. One way to gain a lot of webmaster traffic is to go to http://www.ozzu.com, sign up, go to the Review Forum, and politely ask for your website or blog to be reviewed.

5. Write webmaster related topics and distribute them around the web. There are many sites where you can submit free articles, such as Article City.

6. Write an article about tips to increase your Alexa ranking. People looking for info to increase their Alexa Ranking likely have the Alexa toolbar installed. Right?

7. Buy ads on search engines to increase your traffic. This will increase your Alexa ranking.

8. Use Alexa redirection whenever you can. For example, when providing a link to my website, I could use http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?internetsecurity101.net. This Url will

webmaster forums and add your signature in your post. One way to gain a lot of webmaster traffic is to go to http://www.ozzu.com, sign up, go to the Review Forum, and politely ask for your website or blog to be reviewed.

5. Write webmaster related topics and distribute them around the web. There are many sites where you can submit free articles, such as Article City.

6. Write an article about tips to increase your Alexa ranking. People looking for info to increase their Alexa Ranking likely have the Alexa toolbar installed. Right?

7. Buy ads on search engines to increase your traffic. This will increase your Alexa ranking.

8. Use Alexa redirection whenever you can. For example, when providing a link to my website, I could use http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?internetsecurity101.net. This Url will

ncrease your Alexa ranking. People looking for info to increase their Alexa Ranking likely have the Alexa toolbar installed. Right?

7. Buy ads on search engines to increase your traffic. This will increase your Alexa ranking.

8. Use Alexa redirection whenever you can. For example, when providing a link to my website, I could use http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?internetsecurity101.net. This Url will take you to Internet Security 101, which happens to be my site. What a coincidence eh? Talk about selfish self promotion! To use this technique, simply replace the name of my website (internetsecurity101.net) with yours.

9. Submit your site to Directories, such as Dmoz and Yahoo Directory to increase your backlinks, thus your ranking on search engines. This leads you to, you guessed it, more traffic! Alexa loves traffic. Search engines love content and backlinks.

10. To obtain more of those valuable backlinks, politely request sites that are related to yours to place a hyperlink to your site on theirs. One way to do this is by placing a link to the competing site on yours, with a nice description of their site. Than notify them that you have added a link to their site. Flattery can get you a long way, and the webmaster might add a link to your site as a "thank you".

11. Write your own site reviews for the Alexa Top 100 sites and include your Alexa redirect URL.

12. Download the Alexa ranking button, traffic history graph, info links, and other traffic counters onto the page of your website that receives the most traffic.