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How To Improve Your Alexa Rating

June 1, 2011

How To Improve Your Alexa Rating

Investigation:

Okay, so I decided to write this article for newgptmarketing.com, since we're mostly focused on how to increase your website traffic and get a higher page rank on google I thought it would fit right in. We also thought by writing an article on seo it would help promote this website even more, as well as all the activities and links this website provides like search engine optimization, website traffic analysis, I thought it would be a great fit etc.

Alexa.com is a service from Amazon that aims to collect information about websites, and one of the things they do is rank websites based on the amount of visitors a website gets. A better explanation, they maintain a Global Top 500 Websites list as well as tracking the numerical ranking of individual websites.
The Downfall

The messed up part about it is, the way they get their ranking structure is composed isn't rocket science or complex. Alexa provides a toolbar plugin for browsers...once it is installed, it tracks all the sites you have gone to and visited and reports all that data back to their servers.

The problem with this is that the individuals most likely to download the Alexa toolbar aren't typical "average internet users". the reason being is because Alexa concentrates on topics like website rankings, web site data, seo/sem, statics etc, the individuals that end up acquiring the toolbar tend to be webmasters and technical individuals very involved in the technical side of websites developement seo search engine marketing ect...

These individuals tend to visit sites that are more in the realm of seo and sem and website developement, this creates a very gleemed view of website actual status and rankings, Because. Websites that bring in highly technical individuals go to the top to of the Alexa ranking structure, on the other hand sites that have a different niche fall in their ranking structure. Clearly for high traffic websites that get visited by everyone being the "average internet user", this effect isn't notice.

Some examples of this effect are simple to discover. For instance This website internetmarketing.com does a fantastic job of showing why their web site is "overrated" by Alexa, because their main focus is centered around Internet Marketing and internet marketing niches. on the other hand Bigoakinc.com is currently ranked at 69,475 in Alexa while a really high traffic site, fulltiltpoker.net is ranked at 101,852. Quantcast.com, who use a different method of measurement, have fulltiltpoker.net ranked at 15,980, with 77k+ monthly visitors. Bigoakinc.com calculates that it gets roughly 6-7k visitors a month, or perhaps one tenth of the traffic of the poker website.

This website, newgptmarketing.com, is average in popularity, with around 8000+ page views per month. Additionally, the demographics of our visitors are the kind of people that would acquire the alexa toolbar. Therefore, our current Alexa ranking is relatively average at 496749 as of 10/20/2010.

So why make a big fuzz over Alexa and their ranking matrix structure?

There are many examples why Alexa ranking is important. One example, is that their are ad placement agencies and affiliate companies that will not accept your site unless it's got some minimum Alexa ranking. Additionally, there are other directories and services like reviewme.com, or payperpost.com that use Alexa rankings to make decisions. Also if you are trying to sell your website or domain, purchasers use Alexa as part of their decision when purchasing a site and use alexa as well as Google Page Rank to decide the value of your website.

So Let's get down to on how you can increase your Alexa Ranking...

To Start off We did alot of reasearch on this, and didn't really find any suggestions that seemed feasible. Some of the ideas out there:

    Installing one of Alexa's site widgets
        We tried this, but it had no effect on the rating. Additionally, the widget was sometimes slow in rendering, and hence made our website slower.
        Others tried experiments with the widget, and got no conclusive results.
        Also, Alexa says the widget has no effect on rankings
    Scripts and services that try to game the system either via redirects, automating a web browser with the alexa toolbar to visit your site or services that cheat the system
        As for the "Alexa Redirects", there wasn't any evidence that it worked, and Alexa appears to have shut it down anyway.
        There is some evidence that automating hits to your website will work and can get you into the 50,000 range or so. However, we do have our ethics, and aren't going to be trying any blackhat or dubious approaches.

So obviously the best idea was to write an article explaining how to increase your alexa ranking:

Writing an article that explained how to increased your alexa ranking would bring in more technical individuals visiting our website so this is it the article to bring in you guys the technical SEO people.

An Article explaining how to increase Alexa ranking and the why and how's of the alexa ranking structure, was a good idea, to attract more technical type people thus increasing our very own alexa rankings. And, if those visitors were from the web marketing and SEO community, they might have the Alexa toolbar installed. Because the Alexa ranking structires is based only on traffic with the toolbar installed,our ranking should go right up.

Our Experiment

We update this website every week for statistics informational purposes and as of this week our rankings have increased or more correctly said, "decreased" from 496749 as of 10/29/10 to 325629 as of this week, we will keep this article updated on this website for your informational purposes.

Posted by Alex E.. Posted In : How To Increase Alexa Rating

How to Attract Targeted Visitors

October 11, 2010

HowTo Attract Targeted Visitors

SEO Master/Internet Consultant

You began your online business in order to make money, right? Well, it's probably apparent you’ll have a greater chance of making more money from individuals who are interested in the kinds of products and services you sell.

Let’s use the example that you run a website that promotes a product or service, which helps people lose weight. So, the types of people you want to find and visit your website are those who are interested in becoming thinner. Conversely, if a visitor to your website isn’t particularly interested in losing weight (but is instead searching the Internet because they’re interested in video games or gardening), then it’s unlikely that they’re going to convert into a paying customer.

This is the concept of a “targeted visitor” – a person who is already in your website’s topic before they find your website and see the products and services you offer.

It’s not hard to see why the most successful web business are those who get traffic comprised of individuals who are already interested in the products or services offered by that business. So it’s essential to your success that you build you individual website pages to contain and focus on the individual keywords that relate to your products and services.

In addition, it’s likely that your appearances on a given search results page won’t be limited just to pages on your own website. The search engine is likely to find and list many “external” resources, too. These will include marketing-type materials that you may publish through other websites.

Go ahead and type a generic search term or phrase into your favorite search engine. Chances are that near the top of the natural search results there will be links to external aggregations sites like YouTube and EzineArticles. This is something that you want to emulate as well.

So in order to make sure you’re driving the greatest number of targeted visitors to your website as possible, you first need to create a site in which each web page is focused on the particular keyword terms and phrases that you’ll identify. Second, you’ll support this by creating promotional materials (again, using the relevant keyword terms and phrases), and making sure these are properly distributed on the Internet.

Finally, once your website is live, make sure to submit your web address directly to the major search engines. Each search engine has a page that permits you to do this: Google’s is at (http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl), Yahoo’s is at (http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/srchsb/ssb.php), and Microsoft’s is at (http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx). The search engines would eventually find your pages, of course, but using these quick submission forms helps the process move forward more quickly

To Your Massive Suceess,
-Alex E. Campain
http://www.newgptmarketing.com

Posted by Alex E.. Posted In : Backlinking Strategies To RaNK # 1 On Google

Search Engine Optimization And Why You Gotta Use It

October 11, 2010

Search Engine Optimization And Why You Gotta Use It

Alex E. Campain
SEO Master/Online Mentor

E-commerce is a cut throat business. You have to arm yourself with the proper know-how and the tools to make your site a cut above the rest. Each day, more and more sites are clambering to optimize their rankings in websites and if you lose your guard, you may just get trampled on and be left in the abyss filled with so many failed e-commerce sites.

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a term widely used today by many e-commerce sites. For the past few years and the next ten years or so, search engines would be the most widely used internet tool to find the sites that they need to go to or the product or information they need.

Most people that use search engines use only the ten top search results in the first page. Making it to the first page, more so to the top three is a barometer of a sites success in search engine optimization. You will get a higher ratio of probability in being clicked on when you rank high. The more traffic for your site, the more business you rake in.

But, it is essential to grab a hold of that spot or make your ranking even better. As I aforementioned, each day is a new day for all e-commerce sites to make them selves rank higher using search engine optimization. It is imperative to make your site better and better everyday.

So just what is search engine optimization and do you have to use it? The answer to why you have to use it is an easy one. You need search engine optimization to be number one, or maybe at least make your site income generating.

With search engine optimization you can get the benefit of generating a high traffic volume. Let’s just say you get only a turn out of successful sales with 10 to 20 percent of your traffic. If you get a hundred hits or more a day, you get a good turn out of sales already. If you get only twenty to ten hits a day, you only get one or two if not any at all.

So once again, what is search engine optimization? Search engine optimization is utilizing tools and methods in making your site top ranking in the results of search engines. Getting yourself in the first page and better yet in the top half of the page will ensure that your site will generate public awareness of your site’s existence and subsequently generate more traffic, traffic that could lead to potential income and business.

Search engine optimization requires a lot of work to be fully realized. There are many aspects you have to change in your site or add as well to get search engine optimization. These will include getting lots of information about the keyword phrases that are popular in regards to your sites niche or theme.

You may also need to rewrite your sites contents so that you could get the right keyword phrases in your site without making it too commercial but light and informative. There are certain rules and guidelines to be followed with making your site’s content applicable and conducive to search engine optimization.

You will also need to collaborate with many other sites so that you could get link exchanges and page transfers. The more inbound and outbound traffics generated by sites among others are one of the components search engines uses to rank sites.

Try to search the internet for many useful help. Tips, guidelines and methods for search engine optimization are plenty to be found. Read many articles that can help you optimize your site in search engine results. The more knowledge and information you gather the better. This will all help you in getting those high rankings. This may require a little time and effort in your part but the benefits will be astounding.

If you can part with some money, there are many sites in the internet that can help you in search engine optimization. There are many sites that help in tracking keyword phrases that can help your site. There are also some content writers that have lots of experience in making good keyword laden content for your sites that have good quality.

Act now and see the benefits garner with search engine optimization. All of these will result to better traffic and more business for your site and company.

To Your Massive Success,
-Alex Campain

Posted by Alex E.. Posted In : Backlinking Strategies To RaNK # 1 On Google