I am pretty happy today as this is the first time my blog has cracked the 50,000 mark for an Alexa ranking. It took me a little over 7 months to reach this milestone. I beat my goal by 5 months and that makes me happy
I know there is a lot of debate over the value of Alexa ranking. I believe that it is very important if you are looking to monetize your blog. It is not the only thing that advertisers look for but it is one of the biggest factors in determining the value for an ad or link on your blog.
The Alexa formula is based on the number of vistors that visit your site and the number of page views. Of course, only those with the Alexa toolbar count as votes. It is kind of like the Nielsen ratings are for television. Sounds pretty simple right, increase the number of visits and the number of pages they view and your Alexa ranking will increase, right? Yes, this is true but there are some other things you can do to boost your Alexa ranking. Here are some ideas.
What do you do to improve your Alexa ranking?
It seems things that can help your Alexa ranking, can hurt your Google pagerank. Which one is more important?
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So indirectly to improve your Alexa rank you need to get a lot of unique visitors to your website. And if you get a good number of unique visitors then Alexa rank will eventually increase. So one needs to focus more on ways of generating traffic, by the way that Entrecard never worked for me, it did give me a good number of impression but very less clicks.
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