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Boosting alexa ranking

A lot of webmasters use Alexa rankings as a way to judge the popularity of their sites. Alexa rankings are calculated based on the amount of times users with the Alexa toolbar visit a web site over a given amount of time.

Alexa stats are not very accurate, but there is not other mechanism available to webmasters to that could tell them with a high degree of accuracy the actual traffic of the website they are interested to examine (e.g. for commercial purposes such as buying advertising space or buying the website). The Alexa rank can give webmasters an idea of how well they compare with others. Alexa ranking is just is a number the lower the better.

Alexa ranking scale:

less that 100,000 - a good amount of traffic
less that 50,000 - very popular
less than 10,000 - heavy traffic
less than 1,000 - a huge number of visitors.

Things to do to boost your Alexa ranking:

1. Go to Alexa and check if you’re ranked at all. If not, submit your site by inserting a little file called info.txt in your root directory on your server. The file is created on the Alexa server in the Add your site info section. This will tell Alexa that your site exists.
2. Install the Alexa toolbar in your browser - every time you visit your site, the toolbar will tell Alexa that the site was visited.
3. Go to popular SEO forums such as digitalpoint.com, where almost everyone has the Alexa toolbar installed and point them to your site by writing interesting posts, indicating problems, asking for solutions, etc.
4. Don’t cheat Alexa by installing some programs that can artificially inflate your rankings because that practice can get you banned from Alexa permanently.