improving alexa rankings
With the recent changes over at PayPerPost, a lot of bloggers are now scrambling to improve their Technorati rankings.
The big reason most people don’t like to use Alexa rankings is because they are easily manipulated. I say - manipulate away. If Alexa is going to lock the front door and leave the back door wide open - I’m going in. My friend Julie posted a great link today that gave 7 tips on improving Alexa rankings. I’ve already put one of those tips into motion, by changing the URL in my signature on the forums I frequent, to an Alexa redirect.
Here’s how it works - instead of putting http://www.geekyspeaky.com in my signature (at a forum, in email, etc), I put the Alexa redirect to GeekySpeaky, like so:
http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?geekyspeaky.com
If you’ll click on that link, you’ll still end up right here, but you make a quick pit stop at Alexa first. Doing so increases MY ranking at Alexa. This is one tip that’s easy to put into action!
Another tip, and this was Julie’s favorite - review my blogs on Alexa! By visiting http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=geekyspeaky.com - you can add your own review of this site. Be sure to use the Alexa redirect as shown above for your domain - if anyone reads your review and wants to visit your site, they’ll do so and make that pit stop through Alexa first! Remember - you can remove the “geekyspeaky.com” at the end of those URL’s and put your own domain info to redirect folks to YOUR site.
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A great post, thanks, The Artist
[…] I read online recently that the Alexa toolbar has had a decline in users. Is it any wonder? Most people are too search engine savvy to trust Alexa’s results. I’ve posted in the past about the things you can do to increase your Alexa rankings. Additionally, I’ve been told by IE users that after installing the Alexa toolbar, their systems went kablooey. A system that can be gamed to skew results isn’t going to attract most people interested in SEO, because they know it’s not a good ranking system to use. […]
Thanks for the tips.
Hi,
I saw this trick of using alexa redirect in the links, but I don’t understand how it works. If somebody does not have Alexa toolbar installed and clicks on my redirected link, this is counted by Alexa? More: if I use this, will search engines still count this link for me (in case it is a link that matters)?
This will help you out with people who are NOT using the Alexa toolbar or FF extension. However, it has no PR value - when you use the redirect, it counts as a link to Alexa, not your site, so you’ve got to pick and chose when to use it!
Thank you, Colleen, for the explanation. I’m going to give it a try, to see what happens.