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You might have heard or read somewhere something about increasing Alexa Traffic Ranking or trains pertaining to Alexa. I have heard about it through a friend saying that I could check my traffic through it.

According to Alexa,

Alexa’s traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users over a rolling 3 month period. A site’s ranking is based on a combined measure of reach and pageviews. Reach is determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day. Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site. However, multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are counted as a single pageview. The site with the highest combination of users and pageviews is ranked #1.

Alexa’s traffic rankings are for top level domains only (e.g. tinysigns.com). We do not provide separate rankings for subpages within a domain (e.g. www.tinysigns.com/about.html) or subdomains (e.g. tinysigns.freehostia.com) unless we are able to automatically identify them as personal home pages or blogs, like those hosted on Geocities and Tripod. If a site is identified as a personal home page or blog, its traffic ranking will have an asterisk (*) next to it: Personal Page Avg. Traffic Rank: 3,456*. Personal pages are ranked on the same scale as a regular domain, so a personal page ranked 3,456* is the 3,456th most popular page among Alexa users.

In 2 weeks time, my ranking is around 1,422,023 - 35% come from the US. But I do not rely on this data alone - since it relies mostly with Alexa Toolbar users (which is commonly installed on computers in Asia) and is getting data from pageviews which can sometime be manipulated (don’t ask me how but I know someone experimenting on it and he doesn’t want to share it to me).

So why is Alexa important?

Well, recently tried signing up for Sponsored Reviews to earn some money and found out that it checks Alexa traffic ranking and a couple of data for the approval of an account. I have no Page Rank at the moment and is have only a couple of days blogging so I could not get other ways of monetizing these blog. I love Google Adsense but I have opted not to put it on the site because I do not want my post be cluttered with alot of ads.

Kucau has invited me to join the Alexa train but as you all know I am too lazy to join those trains and my train experience was a little disaster. And have read about that train already and think that as all other trains, The one mosts benefited with these trains are those on the lowest level on the list or simply the one who started it all. So, I think, it’s one way.

If you are interested in increasing your Alexa Traffic, here is a couple of things you could do:

• Try posting you site links in Asian forums where Alexa users are mostly found.
• Get into an internet cafe, change the homepage for IE to point to your site and install the Alexa toolbar (IE only).
• Try the Alexa redirect trains like the one on Kucau.
• Frequently visit your site using IE with the toolbar.

How to start getting into Alexa…

It’s simple, Alexa needs to know your website exists (You need to have your own domain like tinysigns.com). Then as you would do for other webcrawling robots, your site needs to be crawled so make sure that you have it allowed to get indexed by Alexa too. Here is a simple of a robots.txt that allows Alexa crawler to get to your site:

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow:

Then enter your site URL on their site crawler form that would enable them to know you wanted to get crawled, or if you have Alexa toolbar installed, just simply browse your site with the toolbar turned on.

Well, as for now, I need the Alexa Traffic because I want to get some money off my blogging without having a lot of ads scattered all over my site.

Good luck on driving traffic on your sites and getting your Alexa Traffic ranking into the top 100,000. I too am still wanting a lot of attention…