How To Get A Higher Alexa Ranking
Getting a better Alexa rank is a good way to get feedback from the results of your efforts in regards to developing your blogs or sites. Consider that you have written your blog or built your site and of course you want traffic to your sites. You could install a page counter that keeps track of stats and visits, but to get more accurate and helpful feedback from your efforts in regards to encouraging or seeking traffic, your Alexa rank and Alexa's other stats can be very useful.
Alexa has Traffic Stats, Search Analytics, Audience Stats and much more and these types of real time feedback statistics can help the development of your site and its popularity tremendously.
Getting an Alexa account would be the first step. Once you have an account you can then claim your site if you choose to. You will have to embed a little code into the header section of your site to verify the ownership of your site. If that isn't possible or if you feel like you don't have the expertise for that, don't worry about it because there are many big sites out there that are unclaimed. But with a basic account your can still write reviews for websites and a lot more.
To get a higher Alexa rank or to boost or raise your Alexa Traffic Rank, you might consider loading the Alexa Toolbar. People that use the Alexa toolbar automatically give feedback about the websites they visit, and this provides information for traffic rankings and other statistics. If you have the Alexa Toolbar loaded on your computer and then visit your own sites and blogs this should increase your site's rank.
Another way to get a higher Alexa rank is to host an Alexa blog hop or an Alexa site hop. This is a way of encouraging others with the Alexa Toolbar to visit your site. Here is an example of an Alexa Site Hop. It is just a reciprocal link exchange idea where everyone is encouraged to load the Alexa Toolbar and visit other sites that are participating.
There are Alexa Traffic Widgets and Alexa Site Stats Buttons that you can embed on your sites that will give you real time assessment of your traffic stats also. After that you can use a free service called SocialMonkee that will automatically provide backlinks to bookmarking sites. I like using StumbleUpon and Digg to do a lot of my bookmarking because they are pretty active sites.
Good luck with your Alexa Traffic Ranking!
