There are several ways to improve upon your Alexa Rankings. Alexa ranks your site according to how many people visit your site with a strong emphasis on those who have their Alexa Tool Bar installed. The problem that lies with this method alone is that the people who do not have the toolbar that visit your site may not be counted. Our Alexa ranking has fluctuated in the past from over 100,000 to under 20,000 although this changes due to the season. Anything under 100,000 is pretty good, anything over a 100,000 is not monitored closely by Alexa. Traffic statistics and graphs are available for web sites in the top 100,000. Our rank at the time of writing this article is listed on the widget below. Our Alexa traffic rank is not nearly as important as our page rank in the search engines since we have become a little more established on the web, but for companies just getting off the ground this information may help you get recognized.
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Click On The Image To The Right For Our Current Alexa Ranking |
1. Install Alexa Toolbar on everyone's computer in your office. If everyone in your office has Alexa installed on their computer while browsing your site, this will help increase ranking tremendously. This may not be beneficial If your office is behind a hardware firewall because Alexa may only identify your firewall's IP address and act as if it were only one computer. If your office uses Fire Fox Web Browser, there is a small toolbar called "Search Status" that will report use to Alexa.
2. Install the Alexa Widget on your web site, this will help those who visit your site without an Alexa Toolbar. The down side is that it requires ActiveX, which is why we do use this method though it is very effective. (the Alexa Widget is viewable above) Here is the html code for the Widget (insert your URL into www.yourwebsite.com)
| <SCRIPT type='text/javascript' language='JavaScript' src='http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/t/a?url=www.yourwebsite.com'></SCRIPT> |
3. You can write Javascript to scan your web site pages on a computer that has an Alexa Toolbar Installed. Do not run this day and night, use it periodically to boost your rank. Alexa does consider your IP so it is best to use this on different computers with Alexa Tool Bar Installed. The Java Script is below, some modifications will be needed to make this code work for your site.
A. Fill in "page1.html" with your URL
B. If you would like to add pages continue in sequence, and change the number in this strand to the next number in sequence. [if( strI==4){] . Also change [var str = new Array(4);] Example: 20 html pages = change both numbers in array to 21
C. The time between the pages switching can be modified in this script
[var intNumber=Math.round(Math.random()*500);]
<html>
<head><title>Reload</title>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.2" type="text/javascript"><!--
function reload(){
var strI=document.stored.Arrayvalue.value;
var str = new Array(4);
str[1] = "page1.html";
str[2] = "page2.htm";
str[3] = "page3.htm";
if( strI==4){
strI=1;
}
else{
URL=str[strI];
window.open(URL,'EC');
strI++;
}
document.stored.Arrayvalue.value= strI;
var intNumber=Math.round(Math.random()*500);
if(intNumber<5000){intNumber=intNumber+5000;}
setTimeout("reload()",intNumber);
}
//-->
</script>
</head><body onload="reload();">
<form name="stored"><input type="Text" name="Arrayvalue" value="1"></form>
</body></html> |
4. Make sure that anti-virus protection or spy-ware protection does not remove Alexa from your computers, since Alexa is designed to monitor the web sites that are visited some programs consider it spy ware and will quarantine or delete the alexa reporting files.
5. Alexa counts how many web sites that your site links to as well as how many web sites link to your site. This will help in your page rank with all the search engines which will in turn help with your Alexa Ranking.
6. One of the most important things that anyone can do to improve ranking in Alexa is to have users that have the Alexa Tool Bar installed to visit your site. Writing blogs about your site especially in the Alexa Community will ensure that users with Alexa Toolbars will visit your site.
7. There are other programs intended to "cheat the system". Almost everyone that knows about Alexa can tell you it can be manipulated, some ways are a little more ethical than others. Some programs for purchase are designed to blatantly raise your Alexa score, most of them bounce signals off of proxy servers then back to your site randomly to simulate traffic. We do not support the use of this technology but it does exist, and it only mentioned to help support the information in this article. Search for "increase alexa ranking" and plenty of these types of programs will be available.
Although these steps will not make your web site an overnight success, using them collectively over a long period of time will give your web site the attention that it deserves.
Everything Kitchens - Web Development Team