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Improve your Alexa Ranking
By maurizio | June 3, 2007
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Today I stumbled upon an interesting post from Andy Coates:
Improve your alexa rankings using clever redirects
He is simply saying two things:
- Alexa is ranking sites using stats from their Alexa Toolbar AND with transparent redirects
- You can use Alexa’s redirect to improve your rankings
He later goes on explaining that if you use MyBlogLog it’s a good idea to put Alexa’s redirect instead of your direct url.
To use Alexa’s redirect is simple. You need to login on mybloglog, and then press the “Edit Settings” button.
Then you will be transferred to the next page where you’ll see something like this:
On the Site URL text box you should see your website url. Now you need to change it with:
http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?yoursiteurl
Where yoursiteurl is your website.
On my example I had to put:
http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?blog.nafurai.com
Easy, isn’t it?
(please don’t laugh at my poor stats on the picture above)
Topics: Content Creation | 7 Comments »
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June 4th, 2007 at 6:02 am
I love this!
Thanks for bringing this trick to our attention, Maurizio.
I’m going to change MyBlogLog stuff right now.
Thanks,
Paula
June 8th, 2007 at 4:32 am
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June 13th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Well I have learned a lot from posts like these. Im not as fortunate to have an 18,000 page ranking like some folks. I can however testify to seeing an excellent improvement in my page ranking (about 27%!) after doing the following 4 things…
1)Using this site, which is free, that sends thousands of people to my sites everyday- good for blogs, websites, myspace, and ebay stores- CLICK HERE
2)Getting the firefox extension (alternative to the alexa toolbar)
3)Adding the alexa widget to my site.
4)Using the following URL whenever possible
“http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.xxxxxxxxxxx.com”
just replace the x’s with your sites’ url.
I highly recommend doing all 4!
Thanks again for this post! (i do have to say though that the widget only seems to record somewhere in the neighborhood of 15% of actual traffic). Using the redirect through alexa will count a lot of the hits to your site that the widget misses. It only counts a hit once per 24hrs per IP address however.
Best of luck to all.
July 14th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Cool I’ve had a look at Andy’s site and seen that not everybody agrees, but I’ve done it and will see what happens.
Maurizio, have you tried the other 3 methods that Alexa warrior mentions above ?
July 14th, 2007 at 8:02 am
No. I do watch my site from time to time with IE and the toolbar. I do not use IE for surfing though.
I should probably add the Alexa widget to my site too, but I think that speaking about Alexa could be enough for that. I haven’t tried his site though. Let me know if you want to try it.
Oh. btw. have a look at my MyBlogLog page. I created 2 communities. The one with the redirect, and another one without it (it’s just a community, I’m not using any kind of code on my site other than the original). You should do that to get your icons back on comments.
August 6th, 2007 at 3:42 am
[...] is getting better and better every day. Even if some people consider it useless, I still use the alexa redirect trick on mybloglog. That’s the only trick I use to improve my ranking, even if it’s probably [...]
September 24th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
unfortunately, i just found this posting. now, mybloglog doesn’t allow alexa redirect anymore. poor my blog.