3 Tips to Improve Alexa Rank of Website

Alexa Rank is used by online marketers and advertisers to estimate website traffic based on the metrics provided by Alexa. Alexa is owned by amazon, and it's very popular website for checking traffic metrics of any website. 

What is Alexa Rank?

Alexa rank is calculated based on the traffic you are getting to your blog or website.

Alexa is from giant of ecommerce business amazon.

According to Alexa

Your Alexa rank is an estimate of how popular your site is relative to all other sites.

Alexa rank doesn't help you in getting better ranking in search engine results. It's only used to let your users, advertisers, online marketers how much popular you are. How much traffic you are getting to your blog or website.

How Alexa Works?

Alexa rank works only based on the traffic from people who have installed Alexa toolbar in their browsers.

Alexa doesn't give exact traffic or result, it is always an estimation.

Is Alexa Rank worth for SEO?

NO, Alexa rank doesn't help you to get any better search engine results.

It is worth for only getting loyal readers because most of the readers get attracted by popularity of the website. If you have good Alexa rank, then you are already popular.​

It is worth for only to attract online marketers & advertisers. It helps you to get quality backlinks, Third party advertisers.​

So, I suggest it's worth to improve your Alexa rank but not for SEO​.

Why Alexa rank is so important?

Alexa rank is important, if you want to attract free backlinks (without any efforts), attract advertisers (without any promotion and hustling), increase popularity (if you are popular you will get more readers), get interviewed (you will get interviewed by new bloggers).

Tips to Improve your Alexa Rank​

Here I'm going to reveal few tips, follow these tips to increase your website's Alexa Rank.​

If it's new website, Within Few weeks you can observe improvement in your websites Alexa Rank​. If you have existing traffic, you will see results in few days.

1. Use Alexa Toolbar to Increase Alexa Rank

You can install Alexa toolbar in your browser so that Alexa can access your usage. You can check any website traffic instantly without navigating another website. Just click on the Alexa toolbar Icon to get traffic stats.

Alexa Toolbar is available for Google Chrome & Firefox also.​

2. Add Alexa Widget to Your Website  for improving Alexa Rank​

Alexa provides a widget to add it to your website. So that, Alexa will know the traffic stats of your website, it can improve your Alexa Rank based on the traffic you are getting.

If you add a widget it will look likes this image below. We are also using Alexa widget on our website. We recommend you to add it on your website.

To add Alexa Widget use this below code on your website. If you are using WordPress, just create text widget and paste this below code.

<a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/codingcyber.com"><script type="text/javascript" src="https://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/t/a?url=codingcyber.com"></script></a>

3. Improve Website Traffic to Improve Alexa Rank

Alexa Rank depends only on the traffic, if you have huge amounts of traffic you can improve Alexa rank in less time. Otherwise, it will take some time to improve the rank of your website.

Try to focus on Improving website traffic, improved website traffic is equal to improved Alea Rank.​

• ​Write Quality Content
• Build Quality Backlinks

Claim your website on Alexa

Register for free account and claim your website. Insert verification code in header section of your website. or by uploading simple verification html file.​

Write great & unique content

Write Great Content not just good content not copied content. If it's great useful content it will attract more traffic & more backlinks. More the traffic & more the backlinks, more the Alexa rank improves.​

Promote on Social Media Channels

Remember this, the better your traffic is the better your websites Alexa rank will be.​ Get most out of your social media channels, promote in wherever you can.

Publish Useful Content regularly to increase your traffic.​

​If you publish useful content regularly, you will not only attract new readers but you can retain your existing users and increase their trust in your website. They will follow you forever for you quality & useful content.

Add Videos in Content​

People now a days ​don't want to read 2000 or 3000 word's article, they simply want to learn with video's. If you want to improve your traffic. Try to record your own videos,  upload to youtube and embed it in relevant articles.

These are the tips, you should follow to improve Alexa Rank. If you improve your Traffic, you Alexa rank automatically increases.