Back in March I posted this article on how to Boost Your Alexa Stats, which gave a brief explanation of Alexa, and linked to Dosh-Dosh’s excellent article on how to increase your Alexa ranking. I promised to update you on how it’s worked so far, and now I will.

Around the time of that post my rank was in the high 500,000’s. As you can see by my widget in the bottom right corner, it has now dropped to 121,000. Now obviously, my traffic levels have also improved in that time, but I think this reduction is also due to me following only 2 of the 20 points Maki outlined-If I ‘d done the other 18 as well, who knows?

  1. Install an Alexa widget on your blog. Why? Because this helps log visitors to your blog for Alexa purposes. Without it, your Alexa rank is more inaccurate, and probably much higher.
  2. Install either the Alexa searchbar if you really must use Internet Explorer (don’t!), or if you’ve come over from the Dark Side and use Firefox install the Search Status extension. Why? Because these tools log your visits to every blog you visit including your own.

You are not ‘cheating’ using these tools, simply enabling Alexa to get a more accurate picture of your traffic. You can’t ‘game’ them either, as it only logs one visit per site, per day.

If you’re not monetizing your blog, you really don’t need to worry about this, as the Alexa rank is really only used by advertisers to determine rates. However, by doing ‘2′ you can really help your fellow bloggers, by increasing their rank.

I know this for a fact, because I have recently helped a blogger to set up a new WordPress blog on it’s own domain. There is a widget on the blog, and I use the search status extension. In the first week of the blogs existence, the two of us have been the only visitors for obvious reasons, and the Alexa rank is already in the 600,000s.

It’s worth doing.