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If you like to earn money online through selling advertisement space, you must improve your Alexa ranking. Alexa ranking is one important traffic indicator. Many publisher uses Alexa ranking to estimate the visitor volume and from there they will estimate the cost per click or cost of impression on the ads. One of the mistake that I made when first setting up this blog is not to prepare for Alexa ranking, then it makes harder to give the publisher due to the low rating that I have.

Take note that ReviewMe, Text Link Ads and Sponsored Reviews are just three of the networks which base your ad selling strength on Alexa Ranks.

So, do not follow my foot step, read this post to find out how to improve your Alexa ranking immediately!!!

What is the Alexa Rank?

The traffic rank is based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data from millions of Alexa Toolbar users and is a combined measure of page views and users (reach). As a first step, Alexa computes the reach and number of page views for all sites on the Web on a daily basis.

The main Alexa traffic rank is based on the geometric mean of these two quantities averaged over time (so that the rank of a site reflects both the number of users who visit that site as well as the number of pages on the site viewed by those users)

Alexa Ranking is Not Accurate?

Well, I am sure you have heard people saying that Alexa ranking is accurate, is it true? Yes, it is true that there is bias in using Alexa ranking. The reason being Alexa can only calculate your traffic volume only if you have included the Alexa tracker on your website. That helps Alexa to track your traffic volume. If you do not have the Alexa tracker, Alexa can still add the traffic count if you visitor has Alexa toolbar installed on their browser.

On the internet, let’s face a fact, Alexa toolbar is not that popular and not many people will install Alexa toolbar. Only webmaster or more computer savvy people will install Alexa toolbar for SEO or traffic purposes. Normal web surfer will not bother to install Alexa toolbar. But if you have the Alexa tracker on every pages of your website. Alexa will be able to count the traffic volume more reliably.

Secret 1 of Alexa Ranking Improvement: Add a Alexa Tracker on Every Pages

I mentioned earlier that Alexa ranking has a bias. Why is that so, the reason is simple if you understand how Alexa tracks traffic as explained in the earlier paragraph. Alexa ranking tends to track the search volume for website which is more tech savvy people, so, it compares the websites among those with Alexa tracker. If I have a 1 millions visitors a day but I do not have Alexa tracker on my site, you can see a lousy alexa tracking still.

Now, even though Alexa is bias is not totally accurate, it is still the favourite indicator among ads publisher. If you like you sell ads space, the publisher still likes to know your Alexa ranking despite its biaseness.

Now, this comes to marketing, Alexa ranking is simple one of the marketing trick you must use to boost your website or blog value… Do not deny the fact that people just like to see the number even though it is not 100% accurate. This is a number game

Secret 2 of Alexa Ranking Improvement: Add a Alexa Redirect

You can use a Alexa Redirect http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=kpebiz.com whenever you are placing a link back to your website. That is another way for Alexa to track the data. However, take note that you do not want to have all you backlinks using the re-direct, then you won’t have backlinks to your own page and that hurts your SEO value. You need to have a balance if you are using this method. Make sure you have a good mix of normal backlinks, deeplinks and also some Alexa redirect links.

Secret 3 of Alexa Ranking Improvement: Any Other Methods

Well, I have read many people telling you that to write a review, place a redirect link, buy backlinks on exactseek, digg, stumble. Well, after you have the Alexa tracker on your website, just concentrate your effort to build up your traffic, all visits will be tracked and naturally you will see your Alexa shooting rocket high.

Alexa Ranking Resources

• 7 Proven Strategies for Improving Your Alexa Ranking By Michael Fleischner
• 20 Quick Ways to Increase Your Alexa Rank by Dosh Dosh
• How to improve the Alexa rank of a sports blog by SECFootballBlogger
• 15 ways to soar your ranking in Alexa! by Etienne Teo
• 5 Minute How To: Improve Your Alexa Rank by Freshblogger
• How I improved my Alexa rank by Davidairey
• A guide to Alexa Rank by TheSitewriter
• Monetize-your-alexa-ranking by Homeprofitsguide
• How To Increase Alexa Rank by JohnTP.com

P/S: If you have any good Alexa ranking resource, please leave a comment here and I will add on to the list